5 minutes to destroy everything you think you know about medieval women.
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.
Direction
Besen packs decades of scholarship into 300 seconds.
Writing
Narration that drags fairy tales with scholarly precision.
Director
Ellen Besen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This short emerged from a wave of 1980s feminist medieval scholarship that systematically excavated women's economic roles from legal and artistic records previously dismissed as 'domestic' trivia.
Director Ellen Besen also wrote 'Animation Unleashed,' a foundational text on animation technique—she practiced what she preached by making dense academic content visually accessible.
No ratings yet
Sign in to join the discussion — comments are spoiler-gated to your watch progress.
Discussion starters
CA
