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We know that historical series are, above all, that: series. And we know that for multiple reasons—footage, audience, budget, intentions—they are not always one hundred percent faithful to historical reality. For this reason, we have prepared a list with the Desperta Ferro Antigua and Medieval magazines that you can read to follow the new History Channel series, Barbarians Rising , if you want to really dive—and in a totally historical way—into the historical periods that the story will cover. series.
As presented on the network's website, "Barbarians Rising is not a story about the glory of Rome, it is the story of those who rose up and fought for freedom in the shadow of absolute power, and of those few who They led the charge. The Empire called B2B Email List them barbarians: tribes beyond the limits of civilization who lived immersed in a primitive, brutal and violent existence. These people also produced some of the fiercest warriors in history; women and men who refused to live under ruthless oppression, giving rise to the beginning of an epic saga of resistance that marked the beginning of the fall of Rome and the conception of the world that was to come. Thus, throughout 8 chapters that cover a very extensive historical moment, we will be able to see characters such as Hannibal , Spartacus , Boudica , Arminio , Attila , Alaric , Fritigerno , Genserico or Viriato , among others. The series premieres today, although its arrival in Spain, at the moment, is not yet planned.
There is no doubt that, on a sexual level, George RR Martín 's universe draws on the European Middle Ages. The resemblance is striking as long as we forget the fact that the right of passage appears in the saga and that some details are still to be clarified. Since in general this universe seems so medieval that the viewer or reader far from the world of medievalists believes in the veracity of what he sees or reads, Martin's good work plays in favor of the Middle Ages. Because thanks to the saga and the series, many people have freed the sexuality of this historical era from that gray and flat vision of a world fearful and afflicted by sexual sin. Thus emerges a way of understanding medieval sexuality much closer to what it really was: complex, multifaceted, sometimes contradictory, just as we medievalists see it in our documents.
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