Terry Jones has written an entertaining & informative look at a number of stereotypical roles such as peasant, knight, damsel etc. and using numerous historical examples shows us how these stereotypes are wrong and where these preconceptions came from. A brilliant book highly recommended to anyone with even a passing interest in history though some might find the humour irritating after a while. My only query about the book is how common the examples he uses actually were in medieval times and whether they were in fact the exceptions that proved the rule.