A Medieval Education

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Eleanor Janega joined me on the pod to discuss the educational institutions of the medieval period. We talk about student riots in Paris, the role of the clergy in universities, and the spaces of education designated for women.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History here.
0:02.3	We've got, I get taken to school.
0:04.3	I get taken to school today by Dr. Eleanor Yannager, who's one of the best in the business.
0:08.9	She's a medieval historian.
0:10.4	She specializes in kind of social history.
0:12.7	And she gets triggered on the internet when someone uses the term medieval inaccurately.
0:17.8	When they use the term medieval to describe something
0:20.4	that affects with its primitive, dirty and stupid, she gets medieval.
0:24.2	I mean, I can't even say that, but she does get medieval on them.
0:26.6	And she got medieval on me.
0:28.7	She taught me a quite a few lessons about medieval education in this podcast.
0:33.9	It's a lot more sophisticated than idiots like me think.
0:37.2	So she's a hugely engaging, wonderful academic,
0:40.6	teaching at various universities around London.
0:42.6	Teaching at various London universities.
0:44.6	She's a rising star.
0:45.8	We welcome her to the History Hits Network, not just on audio, but on TV.
0:49.7	She's made a documentary about medieval London.
0:52.2	It's overlapping jurisdictions.
0:53.7	It's wild.
0:55.3	If you wish to watch this documentary, it's coming up soon.
0:57.7	Please get a History Hits TV.
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