I'm a big big fun of Monty Python and I've seen lots of times their movies laughing evry single time! Of all the movies "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" isn't my favourite but it really is something special. As a matter of fact it may look just stupid (in the positive way of the term of course) but it's actauly, in my opinion, quite accurate representing Middle Ages in some peculiar parts. For example there is the trail to the whitch condamned by the scholastic sillogistic arguments which is strangely very accurate as she is proved to be guilty through a trial by ordeal which was really used even in the XVII century in Germany! And then in the movie there are also monks going through the villages punishing themselves, traces of poems and the popular way of living (taunting, marriages). Also the sight of the village all dirty and whith people dying of evry kind of disease resembles to some kind of realistic evry day reality! This are some of the things I found out, do you confirm this? Can you add anything? Do you think those are just coincidences? Let me know! (sorry for english grammar, I'm not mothertongue)
hi! not discouraging anyone from commenting on the scenes you mention, but thought you'd be interested in a few previous posts discussing specific aspects of that film and other Python creations
In western Europe during the middle ages, how bad was 'witch-fever'?
What wrong ideas about medieval Europe might one get from popular works of "medieval fantasy"?
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