11/22/2023 0 Comments Latest medieval movies![]() ![]() Turning against his own religious and political faith, Jan fights back with a rebel army in an attempt to save Katherine and battle against the corruption, greed and betrayal rampant amongst those clawing for power.ġ.67 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)ġ,311 opening theaters/1,311 max. As Katherine becomes caught in a dangerous political game between sides, Jan falls in love with her. Handsome, righteous mercenary leader Jan Zizka is hired by Lord Boresh to kidnap the powerful Lord Rosenberg’s fiancée, Katherine, in an attempt to prevent Rosenberg’s rise to power alongside Sigismund and ultimately foil Sigismund’s plot to take the crown. Enjoy.Set in 14th Century Prague, the Holy Roman Empire is plummeting into chaos after the death of its reigning emperor while brothers King Wencelas of Czech and King Sigismund of Hungary battle for control of the empty throne. Oh dear! My only excuse is that the subject is so endlessly fascinating that I keep finding more and more to say. On several occasions more than half of the words I submitted needed to be cut for the published article. Unfortunately, I have, if anything, gotten worse at staying to the assigned word count. And, because we are not living those politics when we watch those films now, it is easy to forget that they had a part to play in the films being made. Often older films have more complex things to say and more complicated politics going on behind the scenes than their modern counterparts (although not always). Revisiting older films (and especially forgotten ones) is also a great pleasure. Not to mention any spin-offs which may be in the offing. I am sure that as these series come to a natural end, television producers are planning (if they haven’t already) the next set of medieval and medieval-esque stories to engage us (such as Knightfall). With films like King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Robin Hood (2018), Outlaw King (2018) and series such as Vikings, The Last Kingdom and (of course) Game of Thrones, I think there will remain new things to see and say for some time to come. My series on medieval warfare films continues in Medieval Warfare Magazine with no signs of running out of films to talk about (I have at least eight more articles planned and didn’t have to wrack my brains (or my collection!) to come up with them). With that said, however, warfare is never far away in the medieval film and I have attempted to be as inclusive as possible. Likewise, there are several films which focus on medieval subjects which might not make an appearance simply because they do not focus on warfare. That is not to say that there is not material which is not related to military history but those aspects, equally fascinating, were not able to be emphasised. These articles, written as they were for a magazine which focuses on military history, have a similar military focus. I have kept my original titles here even though in some cases they were changed in the final edit of the magazine. At the same time, other themes such as that on the 1525 peasants revolt meant I could explore an interesting (and often ignored) subject such as peasants on film. These constraints may give some of the articles an unexpected twist or an incomplete feel in some cases but I certainly intend to return to some of the subjects in more detail. Thus the issue on the Norman conquest of Wales had an article about the Normans and medieval Irish on film, the Vikings article concentrated on Ragnar Lothbrok (since he was the focus of that issue) and the Robin Hood article looked at that hero from the perspective of the First Baron's War. After the first two articles (on Arthur – although here I have returned them to their long, single article version), each would be written, as much as was possible, to conform to the theme of each issue of the magazine. ![]() In all cases the first step in researching them was to view the film itself. These articles were writing for an informed general audience and so do not include references although each article has a further reading segment. I have continued to write articles for the series but I have (I think) become better at staying closer to the word limit. ![]() Nonetheless, in their original state I consider they have interesting things to say so I have collected them here (up to Issue 7.2 – the first six articles). Many of these additional words necessarily found their way into the editing bin. Being incredibly enthused by this fascinating subject, I consistently soared over the word limit assigned to these pieces (which, due to space constraints could only ever run to two pages) and found I had written articles thousands of words more than was required. This quickly became a regular column in the bimonthly magazine. Beginning in April 2016 I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute a series of articles on medieval warfare on film to the pages of Medieval Warfare Magazine. ![]()
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