200 Years' War - Michael Livingston

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Was the Hundred Years War actually a two-century long conflict?

Matt Lewis sits down with Professor Michael Livingston to re-examine the traditional concept of the Hundred Years War between France and England. From the murder that sparked the initial conflict, to the collapse of French resistance up until the rise of Joan of Arc, crises on both sides of the channel framed these tumultuous centuries.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Matt Lewis.
0:02.6	And I'm Dr. Eleanor Yonaga.
0:04.2	And we're just popping up here to tell you some insider info.
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0:20.6	Such as my new series on everyone's favorite
0:22.8	conquerors, the Normans, or my recent exploration of the castles that made Britain. There's a new
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0:47.0	Hello, I'm Matt Lewis. Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into
0:52.6	the greatest millennium in human history. We've got the most intriguing hit, the podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history.
0:55.6	We've got the most intriguing mysteries, the gobsmacking details and latest groundbreaking research
1:02.0	from the Vikings to the printing press, from kings to popes to the crusades.
1:07.1	We cross centuries and continents to delve into rebellions, plots and murders, to find the
1:12.9	stories big and small that tell us how we got here. Find out who we really were with Gone Medieval.
1:24.2	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval. I'm Matt Lewis.
1:31.9	Why do we label some parts of history the way that we do?
1:37.5	Eleanor and I have wondered about this in a couple of episodes about the early and high medieval periods that you might like to dig out from the archive.
1:39.8	But a good friend of history hit and Gone Medieval has gone one step further
1:42.8	and written a book to challenge one of those labels in particular, The Hundred Years War.
1:48.6	Professor Michael Livingston has visited us before and has a new series with history hit
1:52.8	on medieval rebels that takes in William Wallace, Owen Glendua and Simon de Montfort.
1:57.4	Mike's new book, The 200 Years War, well, does what it says on the tin. It takes a different
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