#pillars of the earth
I just finished “The Pillars of the Earth” and all I really wanna say is what the fuck was Sam Claflin’s wig in the last episode
ereini0n said: I thought brother Philip in ‘The Pillars of the Earth’ was rather good looking!
Hm, thanks for the heads-up, will have to go check out the situation there. There’s this thing about medievalists (or maybe it’s just me), but we sometimes feel like we have to act too cool for school when it comes to anything that purports to be from our period and happens to hit it big in pop culture. So my mom being all like ‘you study medieval churchy stuff, you should read Pillars of the Earth!’ meant I definitely wasn’t ever going to read Pillars of the Earth. Or watch the adaptation. So maybe I’m missing out on a few cute clerical types, but hey. My list was not, after all, exhaustive. For instance, I seem to also remember a kinda cute monk in the film version of “Becket,” and I’m sure I’m forgetting others.
…………..Okay, looked up this so-called Brother Philip. Definitely passable, definitely promising. ;) But now I find myself perplexed as to why there are monks in this at all. Is it not about building a cathedral? I figured they’d all be lay clergy (priests/bishops/canons and such), not monks.
