The 100 Years' War with Historian Dan Jones
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The Hundred Years' War, is that why we hate the French?
The Hundred Years' War is a shaking out of what these realms are going to be. In 1328, when there was a succession crisis in the French crown, the young king of England, Edward III, got into his head that one way around this might be to claim to be the king of France himself. That's the fundamental, deep-down reason English kings are saying, we should be kings of France.
So, Dan, as you know, we're massive feminists on the show, and so is all of our audience. And it strikes me that we haven't addressed the central figure in this whole story, which is, of course, Joan of Arc. Dan Jones, welcome back. Thank you for having me. It's great to have you on. We're going to talk about the Hundred Year War. It's going to be a great conversation. And I was just saying to you before we started, the last one we did about the Crusades is absolutely smashed. It was really, really fun. And our audience enjoyed it. So it's wonderful to have you back. Thanks for coming. The Hundred Years War. Is that why we hate the French?
Well, I suppose it's one of the ways that the relations between England and France are shaped. I mean, if you think about any sporting occasion, I mean, we're recording this before the World Cup. I don't know if England will play France in the World Cup or not. But I guarantee that if they were to play France in the Soccer World Cup, you would see some sort of montage before the event that referenced like the Battle of Agincourt when the plucky English took on the might of the French nobility and won. So it's like it's a sort of, it's a common analogy for English-French relations. Is it why we hate the French? I don't know if it's the specific cause, but it's definitely part of the kind of material that's around them.
Yeah. I mean, I was only joking. I guess to give it the serious treatment that I think the subject deserves, I think the best thing to do is to start by explaining actually what we mean by England and France. Because I imagine at this point, countries don't really exist in the way that we think about them now. These are more personal fiefdoms. And so is that really where we should start with this? Yeah, that's probably a good place to start.
And in a sense, like the Hundred Years' War is a shaking out of what these realms are going to be so if we go back before them into so just just by way of framing at the top usually when we talk about 100 years well we're talking from the about 1337 through to 1453. now you can extend those in either direction mike livingston the great military historian has just written a book called the 200 years war but by and large that's the core of the conflict we're talking about now if you go before that You're absolutely right. These are largely personal fiefdoms. There's a fact of geography, which is since the last ice age, you know, Britain has been an island and England is the sort of the dominant kingdom within that island archipelago.
But if you go back to the sort of the early into the high Middle Ages, the notion of what exact, which bits are ruled by whom
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:41
2
What is the Hundred Years' War and why is it significant?
7:41–8:56
3
How did Edward III's claim to the French throne initiate the war?
8:56–12:34
4
What role did Joan of Arc play in the Hundred Years' War?
12:34–41:11
5
Who were the key players at the beginning of the conflict?
41:11–1:18:20
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