30 mins, 2002        [password required] A unique, comic and ultimately tragic insight into how two different families lived in medieval times. On the eve of the outbreak of the Black Death, the local lord of the manor shows us around the manor house. We learn about their way of life, ambitions and views on society. At the other end of the scale is the Redale family - peasants who live in the village and work the lord's land. The lord's thirteen year old daughter is the subject of an arranged marriage to a neighbouring land owner. The reality of the ugly mismatch is brought home in vivid terms. But a wider, more general development undercuts the nobles' wedding celebrations: the first signs of the Black Death which will devastate the country.

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