Are there any TV shows based on the Middle Ages you would recommend?

  1. BBC’s Hollow Crowns adaptations of Shakespeare’s history plays.
  2. Starz’ Pillars of the Earth. 
  3. BBC’s The Last Kingdom and Tom Fontana’s Borgia Faith and Fear come respectively before and after the Middle Ages, but they’re both good. 
  4. Tudors is campy as hell, but quite watchable. 
  5. BBC/Masterpiece’s Cadfael is excellent.
  6. If you can stand the subtitles, there’s some good French adaptation of Maurice Druon’s Rois Maudits. 

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