Hundred Years' War: The Black Prince (TRIH ep 320, part 3)
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In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their series on the Hundred Years' War, examining how chivalric culture and the Black Death shaped mid-14th century Anglo-French conflict. They open with readings from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel and reference Barbara Tuckman's A Distant Mirror to set the plague-strewn backdrop.
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- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)