30 mins, 2002        [password required] An exploration of three key aspects of medieval life. Villagers describe a world of startling strangeness to modern minds. 1. RELIGION: The church, and its priests, were of a kind we would not recognise today. It had huge power over peoples' lives. Before the world of science and rationalism, the threat of hell was very real. 2. MEDICINE AND HEALTH: In the middle ages amputations were carried out without anaesthetic, gout was supposedly cured by goat's droppings and infant mortality was tragically high. 3. THE STATUS OF WOMEN: Life for women in medieval times was not easy. Women were supposed to obey men without question.

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