#medieval lives

[citywithnochildreninit]

[Medieval Lives, Terry Jones, 2004]

[livila]

My own collection of Terry Jones books. From Holy Grail, to Labyrinth to his history programmes. A mainstay of my cultural life. My favourite python. You’ll be missed.

[cptjackmoon]

I’ll be (re)enjoying some Terry Jones documentaries tonight. Lovely stuff.

[elvisomar]

Somebody’s having a birthday today.

Happy birthday Terry Jones, born 1 February 1942. 

Did you know he wrote Labyrinth?

[jurakan]

Today being the Feast Day of Saint Augustine of the Hippos I keep thinking back to the book Medieval Lives (a book of short stories featuring intellectual figures from antiquity and the medieval period meant to be depicting what they were like) and how so much of my reading experience was just saying

[jurakan]

I keep thinking, for some reason, about Medieval Lives (a book that's a collection of short stories about 'medieval' figures), and that one part in the Saint Helena chapter where a character , who if I recall was the author's version of a famous theologian, said that the Nicene Creed was deliberately crafted in a way that was ambiguous enough to keep both heterodox Christians and Arians happy, without offending either, and, uh...

It's not.

It's really, really not.

The Nicene Creed is in no way ambiguous in its refutation of Arianism.

[michael-palin-is-the-loml]

I’m currently hyperfixated on the wars of the roses, (ADHD things) and I would just like to thank Terry Jones for making the medieval lives documentary so that I can fuel both my Monty Python and my Wars of the Roses hyperfixation at the same time. God bless you Terry Jones you absolute angel 🙏

[florilegia-or-what-you-will]

I am reading Margery Kempe and I have not checked but I think she may have gotten in Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives. If her donkey starts going backwards and her beer loses its head then I’ll know for sure.