Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (TRIH ep 318, part 1)
1337 · Resource
Hosts discuss the cultural and political background to the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War, opening with a reading from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel and contrasting literary and scholarly views (Conan Doyle vs Barbara Tuchman). They outline France's dominance in the early 14th century, the expansion of the Capetian royal domain, and the diminished Angevin holdings of the English crown (Gascony, Aquitaine).
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1337
- Black Death (1346)
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Majapahit Empire (1293)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)
- Zheng He (1371)