Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, DeathEp1 - A Good Birth

A Good Birth - Historian and author Helen Castor, presenter of the popular series She-Wolves, explores how the people of the Middle Ages handled the most fundamental moments of transition in life: birth, marriage and death. In doing so she reveals how people in the medieval world thought and what they believed in. For the people of the Middle Ages the teachings of the Catholic Church shaped thoughts and beliefs across the whole of Western Europe. But by the end of the Middle Ages the Church would find itself in the grip of momentous change and the way of medieval birth, marriage and death would never be quite the same again. (Part 1 of 3) (From the UK) (Documentary) PG CC

Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death was broadcast on SBS ONE at Sunday 3 April 2016, 14:00. This episode was initially placed on Friday 23 May 2014.