Terry Jones is best known as part of Monty Python, the comedy troupe who from 1969 to 1974 wrote and performed Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Jones co–directed the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Gilliam and directed Monty Python’s Life of Brian and Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, which won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. He also wrote the screenplay for Jim Henson’s film Labyrinth. Jones has presented numerous TV documentaries, including The Crusades, Medieval Lives and Barbarians.

Jones’s scholarly works include Chaucer’s Knight and Who Murdered Chaucer? He frequently lectures on the late fourteenth century at universities in Britain, Europe and the United States. His most recent book, Terry Jones’s War On The War On Terror, was published in 2005.

Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, and read English Literature at Oxford University in England.

Medieval Lives is Terry Jones’s attempt to slay the dragons of cliché and platitude, to combat the image of the Middle Ages as a time of ignorance, misery, and superstition. Jones’s talk on this most misunderstood era will point you to things that will surprise and provoke, that will make you think, and leave you smiling.

This special presentation of Terry Jones's Medieval Lives is a benefit for Medieval Minnesota, the summer camp at Augsburg College for students aged 14-17. Proceeds will go toward providing scholarships to the camp.