Dan Jones - WHAT THE MIDDLE AGES HAS DONE FOR THE MODERN WORLD

Dan Jones - WHAT THE MIDDLE AGES HAS DONE FOR THE MODERN WORLD

Did you know that Edward III’s last parliament invented impeachment? That cancel culture in universities actually began at Oxford and in Paris in the 14th Century? That Edward II’s parties would have made Diddy’s freak-offs look like kindergarten parties by comparison? And then there’s the Magna Carta, which supposedly limited the power of the monarchy and established the principle that everyone, including the king, is subject to the law. In this episode – recorded live at the 2025 conference – bestselling British historian Dan Jones, author of such books as The Plantagenets, The Templars, and Henry V, and host of the podcast This Is History, brings us in riveting fashion into the weirdly prescient now of the Middle Ages. Photo credit: Ray J. Gadd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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