Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

Season 1, Episode 3

Episode Title: The Damsel

Air Date: 2004-02-23

Overview:

The Medieval damsel is nowadays seen as a beautiful, but helpless woman, forever in need of a knight in shining armor to rescue her. But were damsels really such passive females, or are the stories we think we know about them, simply not true? Terry Jones travels around Europe in search for an answer to that question.