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Power

In Power, Professor Robert Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system. Inequality was as part of the natural order, the life of serfs little better than those of animals, the knight’s code of chivalry more one of caste solidarity than morality. The class you were born into determined who you were. There were three classes, or estates: those who pray (the clergy), those who fight (the aristocratic warrior class of knights) and those who work (everybody else – in practice, usually serfs on a knight’s estate).

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  • Originally Aired May 8, 2008
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network BBC Four
  • Notes Is the series finale
  • Created November 1, 2014 by
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Name Type Role
Robert Bartlett Writer
Dominic Sutherland Director