• Six Plantagenet Kings and England's Rise: Guests: Dr Caroline Burt and Richard Partington

  • Oct 27 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Six Plantagenet Kings and England's Rise: Guests: Dr Caroline Burt and Richard Partington

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  • This Week on History Happy Hour: Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two centuries witnessed savage political blood-letting – including civil war, deposition, the murder of kings and the ruthless execution of rebel lords.

    Chris and Rick discuss did into this tumultuous period with Dr. Caroline Burt and Richard Partington, authors of Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State. How did these six Plantegenet Kings, colorful and complicated, manage the development of an English state that would become one of the leading nations in the world.

    Dr Caroline Burt is a medieval historian and college lecturer at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She comes from Manchester, UK, and was in the first generation of her family to go to university. Her research focuses on the reigns of Edward I (1272-1307) and Edward II (1307-27) and on English governance during that period.

    Richard Partington is Senior Tutor at St. John's College, Cambridge. An Affiliated Lecturer in the Cambridge Faculty of History, he teaches medieval British politics and has written and broadcast on politics, war, law and crime in the fourteenth century, especially during the rule of Edward III (1327-77).
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