Dan Jones

But it was inevitable in this age that you would have to be a military ruler. And that was that was like imbued through the entire class, the cast of aristocrats who, by definition, ruled the country, that chivalry was a knightly thing. code of behavior and chivalry informed the way you were supposed to behave. So these are just basic political norms.

But it was inevitable in this age that you would have to be a military ruler. And that was that was like imbued through the entire class, the cast of aristocrats who, by definition, ruled the country, that chivalry was a knightly thing. code of behavior and chivalry informed the way you were supposed to behave. So these are just basic political norms.

And it is naive bordering on crazy for historians to look back and say, well, I don't know why they didn't seem to be more in tune with 21st century mores. The hardest thing for historians today to remember oftentimes is that we are the weird ones. Compared to most of human history, we are the weird ones. To have lived in a world, you know, I was born in 1981. My parents were born in 52.

And it is naive bordering on crazy for historians to look back and say, well, I don't know why they didn't seem to be more in tune with 21st century mores. The hardest thing for historians today to remember oftentimes is that we are the weird ones. Compared to most of human history, we are the weird ones. To have lived in a world, you know, I was born in 1981. My parents were born in 52.

And it is naive bordering on crazy for historians to look back and say, well, I don't know why they didn't seem to be more in tune with 21st century mores. The hardest thing for historians today to remember oftentimes is that we are the weird ones. Compared to most of human history, we are the weird ones. To have lived in a world, you know, I was born in 1981. My parents were born in 52.

So we're all post-war, the post-war generation, to have lived in this world that has been largely, not totally, obviously, but largely free of major conflicts which have ravaged Western Europe. So I'm putting aside the current Ukraine conflict and that. To have grown up in an age for four generations now where that hasn't happened is bizarre. It's historically almost totally unprecedented.

So we're all post-war, the post-war generation, to have lived in this world that has been largely, not totally, obviously, but largely free of major conflicts which have ravaged Western Europe. So I'm putting aside the current Ukraine conflict and that. To have grown up in an age for four generations now where that hasn't happened is bizarre. It's historically almost totally unprecedented.

So we're all post-war, the post-war generation, to have lived in this world that has been largely, not totally, obviously, but largely free of major conflicts which have ravaged Western Europe. So I'm putting aside the current Ukraine conflict and that. To have grown up in an age for four generations now where that hasn't happened is bizarre. It's historically almost totally unprecedented.

And it means that we can often be initially very baffled when we look at periods of European history where it's just war after war after war. Well, that was normal. That has been the history of certainly Western Europe. Forever. So it's like, it's not a great line to pursue Henry V on. Now, there are also, you know, you mentioned the misogyny. Oh, come on. This is just the Middle Ages.

And it means that we can often be initially very baffled when we look at periods of European history where it's just war after war after war. Well, that was normal. That has been the history of certainly Western Europe. Forever. So it's like, it's not a great line to pursue Henry V on. Now, there are also, you know, you mentioned the misogyny. Oh, come on. This is just the Middle Ages.

And it means that we can often be initially very baffled when we look at periods of European history where it's just war after war after war. Well, that was normal. That has been the history of certainly Western Europe. Forever. So it's like, it's not a great line to pursue Henry V on. Now, there are also, you know, you mentioned the misogyny. Oh, come on. This is just the Middle Ages.

It's baked into everything. He's a man of his time. Henry V was not necessarily the typical man of his time. He was unusually competent at warfare and unusually willing to pursue a fight if he saw one. He was unusually self-disciplined and uninterested in women, pretty much, with the exception of his wife, Catherine de Valois, whom he married for pretty much political duty.

It's baked into everything. He's a man of his time. Henry V was not necessarily the typical man of his time. He was unusually competent at warfare and unusually willing to pursue a fight if he saw one. He was unusually self-disciplined and uninterested in women, pretty much, with the exception of his wife, Catherine de Valois, whom he married for pretty much political duty.

It's baked into everything. He's a man of his time. Henry V was not necessarily the typical man of his time. He was unusually competent at warfare and unusually willing to pursue a fight if he saw one. He was unusually self-disciplined and uninterested in women, pretty much, with the exception of his wife, Catherine de Valois, whom he married for pretty much political duty.

He was unusually unapproachable to many of the people around him in terms of this sort of severe public demeanour. He was not a good time party king like his grandfather, Edward III, who combined warrior and party goer quite effectively. But he was by no means like a weird outlier in his own society. He was just sort of a particular kind of guy within the norms of the world.

He was unusually unapproachable to many of the people around him in terms of this sort of severe public demeanour. He was not a good time party king like his grandfather, Edward III, who combined warrior and party goer quite effectively. But he was by no means like a weird outlier in his own society. He was just sort of a particular kind of guy within the norms of the world.

He was unusually unapproachable to many of the people around him in terms of this sort of severe public demeanour. He was not a good time party king like his grandfather, Edward III, who combined warrior and party goer quite effectively. But he was by no means like a weird outlier in his own society. He was just sort of a particular kind of guy within the norms of the world.

had no business having the position i mean that's at least the way i when i got through the book that's kind of the thing i landed on where it's like he actually was meant to do this and succeeded well i think that he would have said the same thing himself you know the the meant to do it thing and a lot of it stems back to this moment when he is 16 years old and is almost killed at the battle of shrewsbury with that arrow in the face i think he comes out of that with um and again this very obvious parallel with modern politics american politics he comes out of that uh that brush with death

had no business having the position i mean that's at least the way i when i got through the book that's kind of the thing i landed on where it's like he actually was meant to do this and succeeded well i think that he would have said the same thing himself you know the the meant to do it thing and a lot of it stems back to this moment when he is 16 years old and is almost killed at the battle of shrewsbury with that arrow in the face i think he comes out of that with um and again this very obvious parallel with modern politics american politics he comes out of that uh that brush with death

had no business having the position i mean that's at least the way i when i got through the book that's kind of the thing i landed on where it's like he actually was meant to do this and succeeded well i think that he would have said the same thing himself you know the the meant to do it thing and a lot of it stems back to this moment when he is 16 years old and is almost killed at the battle of shrewsbury with that arrow in the face i think he comes out of that with um and again this very obvious parallel with modern politics american politics he comes out of that uh that brush with death