The Outlaw
by Lee on Monday, August 20th, 2012 | 25 Comments
Were medieval outlaws really like Robin Hood and were the sheriffs evil and corrupt. The answer is no. Terry Jones discovers that Sheriffs were pen pushing bureaucrats and the biggest threat to law were the gangs of upper crust outlaws terrorising the country for the sole purpose of getting rich quick.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
i would go for the cliff
I see no ads. What’s all the whining about?
thanks!
Try “Adblocker” for Google Chrome. It really works.
Is it a bad thing to put the “like” before watching the documentary… since I know I will like it anyway? =)
Ok, is anyone else REALLY tired of the DeVry University ads? A little variety PLEASE!!
I love this show. Thanks YouTube
You’re going to have to go back a *lot* further than that to find the origins of slavery. It’s been around about as long as civilization. Where there’s a need for labour, there’s usually slavery in one form or another – e.g., google “Rome”.
As for “government protection”, that’s nonsense. It was the Royal Navy that essentially abolished slavery world-wide, not the collapse of some incentive policy. Slavery is nearly always very profitable business, and profits are what the “common man” wants.
I love the phrase “Hugga-Mugga”.
Because socialism works SOOO well. Every political system has its pros and cons.
That’s what you got out the whole series? Terry Jones has done a splendid job telling stories from history WITHOUT a 19th century filter. The series tells us that knights were brutish soldiers and not fantasy paladins, and that the damsels of the age had some of the freedoms thought only to have come recently to our society. That’s what this series is about, so please – a little less Tea and bit more sobering coffee that is Terry Jones.
bunch of bull shit. We need the government to save us from the evil bandits in our collective commune!! every episode follows similar themes
Care to elaborate, or are you just one more soul disillusioned by the ‘glory days of old’ being quite different from your story books?
this whole series is communist propaganda
It was the same with the later image of the highway man who was more often than not noble connected as a horse and firearm wern’t cheap.
this is strange how the episode here on BBCWorldwide is completely different then the same episode i saw else were,
Wait a second. Your jumping the gun a bit. The Americans inherited the traditions of slavery from the British, who learned of the slave trade from the Portuguese who got the idea from their African trading partners. Slavery was NEVER popular amongst the common man in any of these countries. Most people saw slavery as an abomination, and a threat to their livelihood. If it was not for government protection of slavery the trade would never have lasted as long as it did.
Love these.
Another interesting episode in this fascinating & illuminating series.
well ok but in britain we still have a fucking monarchy. so um yeah whatever, we all have our national dirty linen.
Yes this actually has real meaning and talent its win win!
If that is a pop at my countrymen – at least we didn’t have cotton plantations and did away with slavery over a hundred years before you did
So the British Invented prisons? Thx…
In the common law of England, a “Writ of Outlawry” made the pronouncement Caput gerat lupinum (“Let his be a wolf’s head,” literally “May he bear a wolfish head”) with respect to its subject, using “head” to refer to the entire person (cf. “per capita”) and equating that person with a wolf in the eyes of the law: Not only was the subject deprived of all legal rights of the law being outside of the “law”, but others could kill him on sight as if he were a wolf or other wild animal.
The concept is known from Roman law, as the status of homo sacer, and persisted throughout the Middle Ages. It was only in the modern period that the principle of habeas corpus was established, requiring that criminals must be judged in person by a court of law before they can legally be punished.