Morgaine (Jean Marsh) in Battlefield (1989), Robin Hood (Tom Riley) in Robot of Sherwood (2014) and Richard the Lionheart (Julian Glover) in The Crusade (1965).
A medieval depiction of the Venerable Bede.
It’s usually defined as the period between the fall of Rome in the fifth century and the new dawn of the Italian Renaissance in the fourteenth – those ‘days of old, when knights were bold/And barons held their sway’ in the words of the old Victorian parlour tune, A Warrior Bold. The reality of the Middle Ages was rather different – not least because its earlier part is inadequately recorded, hence the term sometimes applied to the fifth to tenth centuries, or thereabouts: the Dark Ages.