Medievalists.net » Geopolitics http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Warrior Geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the Kingdom of Heaven http://www.medievalists.net/2009/12/26/warrior-geopolitics-gladiator-black-hawk-down-and-the-kingdom-of-heaven/ http://www.medievalists.net/2009/12/26/warrior-geopolitics-gladiator-black-hawk-down-and-the-kingdom-of-heaven/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:17:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=5962 Ridley Scott's three movies, "Gladiator", "Black Hawk Down" and most recently "The Kingdom of Heaven" explore the morality and identity of warriors. They do so in exotic landscapes and settings that emphasize the confrontation with danger as external and frequently unknowable and political violence as something that has complicated geographies.

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