A Knight's Tale is Inaccurate but Entertaining

                 A Knight’s tale is a hilarious movie describing the story of a squire named William who becomes a knight competing in the tournament with the help of Chaucer an unknown writer. This movie is set in the Middle Ages yet is not entirely accurate.

                Some of the details of the movie that seemed accurate were the Cathedrals that they displayed many times in the movie. The cathedrals featured the stain glass windows that praise the mother of Jesus called the rose glass. Another aspect of the cathedrals that was present in the movie was the flying buttresses which were used to push the weight to the ground making a solid structure. These details can be seen when the Lady Jocelyn and her handmaid Christiana enter in to the cathedral after William Thatcher had just met.

                Another aspect of medieval history that I found was accurately portrayed in the movie was the sport of jousting. The whole movie was based around this sport and appeared in many of the scenes. Tournaments were a big part of history and glory.

                Though there were some aspects of history that were accurate there were many details that were there to just add entertainment to this day and age. One of these obvious inaccuracies was the music and dancing. The music featured artists that did not even exist in the medieval ages. The dancing in the scene where William and Jocelyn are dancing at the party begins medieval but then slowly turns into more modern dance to entertain the audience. One inaccuracy that I found in the movie was the belief that man can change his own destiny. This belief came in the renaissance and was not a common belief during the Medieval Ages.

                Overall the movie is entertaining no matter the inaccuracies. Some could even argue that it is because of these inaccuracies that the movie is entertaining. It  is worth seeing but not for facts on everything medieval.