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Rate This. Episode Guide. Added to Watchlist. And why would he? His worldview is fully in harmony with Knight Fight.

Even while he maintains an ostensible martial multiculturalism in some essays, he muses on Western martial heritage. This shades into outright statements of European cultural superiority.

The West has, to Clements ,. Unlike those squalid suffering regions of the globe that did not embrace reason, science, and individual rights, the West achieved its unprecedented wealth, health, comfort, freedom, and personal opportunity as a direct result of its cultural values—not the blind chances of geography or climate.

What about academic ways of looking at the past, including approaches that make a virtue of diversity and representation of women?

His books take this further; as I once wrote in a review , they are:. The problem is that its aesthetic valorizes a vision in which competition between men is the only thing that matters.

It is men who fight, who protect, who go into the world, take what is owed to them, and push forward Western cultural superiority. It is easy to understand why this fantasy of traditional gender roles might be appealing to certain people, but in a time when a commercial for razor blades can spark weeks of online debate about toxic masculinity, History needs to be more careful about what it presents.

Rather, History panders to the masses with a macho, brutal view of the Middle Ages. Full Disclosure: Both Paul Sturtevant and I tried out for the third judge slot, as did many other knowledgeable people.

The Public Medievalcast. Presented by a team of experts, including WWE superstar and podcaster Christian Cage, each episode follows six competitors as they battle with axes, swords, shields and spears while wearing over 36 kgs of armour until only one knight stands.

Normal people with normal lives forget their day jobs and become knights of battle in the full-contact Armoured Combat League ACL.

These knights are set to wage war as each episode features six new fighters who customise era-specific armour, garb and weaponry and engage in numerous battle rounds to see who has the skill, strength and aggression to win the Knight Fight.

Knight Fight Real armour, real weapons, real fights and real people. Episode Guide. Ancient History.