6 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag.
The Chronicle
The events and themes the archive follows through the High Middle Ages, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and explorer whose travelogue, written with the Italian writer Rustichello da Pisa following Polo's return from the Mongol/Chinese Yuan…
Every title set during the High Middle Ages, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.
FilmsSeriesAt the archive’s paceeach bar is the titles released that decade
The median title about the High Middle Ages came out in 2001; the median across the rest of the archive, in 2004, so this period’s titles run 3 years earlier.
The gold dashes are how many of this period’s 6 titles each decade would hold if they had been released at the same pace as the other 285 dated titles in the archive. That measures the archive’s own collecting, not the world’s film output, and at these sizes one title moves a bar by a whole step.
Cast of Characters
The historical people the archive’s titles put on screen in this period, grouped by what they are known for. The number is how many titles set here they appear in.
A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and explorer whose travelogue, written with the Italian writer Rustichello da Pisa following Polo's return from the Mongol/Chinese Yuan Dynasty court, helped bring a new level of knowledge and understanding to European societies about their East Asian counterparts. Traveling for decades across the Silk Road to Asia, Polo also described in great detail the societies of Central Asia through which he passed.
The Silk Road was an extensive set of overland trade routes connecting the Eastern and Western portions of the Eurasian continent since antiquity. The network bears the name "Silk Road" for one of its most famous commodities: silk, often produced in Chinese textile workshops and bought at great expense in the West, even as early as during the days of the early Roman Empire.
A notable Scottish victory during the first War of Scottish Independence in 1297. By taking advantage of the narrowness of the bridge over the river Forth, the outnumbered Scottish force were able to limit English strength and ultimately secure victory in the face of superior forces.
Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.
No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.
Archive Density
55%6 of the 11 titles the archive sets between 1000 and 1300 carry the High Middle Ages tag.
This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.
38 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 13 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.
Share of the 20 genre taggings across 6 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.
Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.
Series only, counted once each however many episodes carry the period. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.
Also on the Timeline
Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.
Periods before, during, inside and after High Middle Ages, with their year ranges, the years they share with it, the threads they share with it, and how many titles the archive holds of each.
