Medieval Treason (TRIH eps 248-249)
1351 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook visit the National Archives exhibition "Treason: People, Power and Plot" with Neil Johnston, head of the early modern archives, who guides them through primary documents spanning medieval to modern treason. They examine the 1351/52 Treason Act, the parliamentary journal of the Trial of Charles I (1649), the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion and the Restoration settlement of 1660. The conversation moves to later crises: Titus Oates and the Popish Plot (1678)...
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Around 1351
- Black Death (1346)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)