1. Even though it seems that the movie is based on total inaccuracy, as are a lot of historical movies lately, I think everyone can agree that the point of the movie is not to be polite to the history books. It's a movie, thus it's entertainment, and if it's eccentric and entertaining it gets more money. I did wonder that if there were any recent movies that were fair to history, or if it took a trip further back in time to find ones that were. I bet myself that I wouldn't find one on a list that was made after 1990 on a legitimate looking list for historically accurate medieval movies... http://www.drury.edu/multinl/story.cfm?ID=5947&NLID=229. I wasn't surprised by this (minus the fact that there was one movie on the list from 1994), but I was surprised to find that people during class acted as if a movie coming out today was holding to historical myth over accuracy.
2. The reasons behind witchcraft being blamed for the black plague. The cultural beliefs of the time seemed to fit right into a myth blaming women for a mass epidemic. I found this interesting... http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-witchcraft-and-witches.htm
