116: The Last Duel w/ Eric Jager - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In 1385, a bitter feud between two French courtiers came to a terrible head when Marguerite, the beautiful young wife of Norman knight Jean de Carrouges, accuses her husband's enemy, Jacques LeGris, of outraging her while she has been left alone. After a long legal fight, Parliament finally determines that God will produce the verdict. A judicial duel to the death will decide the outcome. And the risk is great. If Carroughes is killed, Marguerite will also die.

My guest is Eric Jager, professor of medieval literature at UCLA. He summarizes the story documented so thrillingly in his book, The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France.

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2:38.7	wire from there. All right on with the show. I'm very pleased to have as my guest today Eric Jagger
2:46.6	author medieval literature specialist literary critic and English professor at the University of
2:54.6	California Los Angeles. He is here to chat about his book The Last Dual, a true story of crime,
3:04.5	scandal and trial by combat in medieval France. So glad to have you on. Thank you so much.
3:12.8	Well, thank you for having me. So before we get started I feel the need to lead with a disclaimer.
3:19.6	I'm not very good at pronouncing French names. And I'm going to clear that up immediately.
3:27.1	So my apologies if I'm massacre someone's identity in this interview.
3:33.6	But let me start by asking you this. When did the idea first occur to you to write a book about
3:41.3	this subject? Well, I was living in New York teaching at Columbia University and I happened to
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