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The Name of the Rose (1986) - 2 corrections

starring Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, Sean Connery (add more)

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The inquisitor Bernardo Gui is portrayed in a more sinister light here than he really seemed to be: a) he was a more 'moderate' inquisitor (of 900 sentences, most were imprisonment and only 42 deaths); b) he did not die by the hands of a violent mob in Italy; he passed away peacefully in a Lauroux abbey in 1331. [The film is not intended to be a realistic portrayal of history and it can therefore do whatever it likes with the characters portrayed - it is artistic license.]

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Knitting was not practiced yet in the Middle Ages. Undoing one's coat was not possible and so the trick to find a way through the maze could not have been performed. [This subject attracts a great deal of (inexplicable) controversy, but the oldest estimate for the origin of knitting places it in the Anatolian region of Turkey in the 6th or 7th Century, and the most recent around the 1200s in Egypt. Regardless, The Name of the Rose takes place hundreds of years after knitting became commonplace.]

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