A New History of the Middle Ages with Dan Jones

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Do the 21st Century and the Middle Ages really share that much in common? Climate change, pandemics, technological disruption, interconnected global trade and networks may all seem like modern phenomena but according to historian and author Dan Jones, they were very part of the Middles Ages as well. Examining a millennium of history Dan Jones guides History Hit's Dan Snow through a re-examination of the Middle Ages challenging the Eurocentric view of the period and questioning whether historians and history can ever be truly objective.

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0:00.0	Have one, welcome to Dan Snow's History It.
0:03.1	We got another Dan on the podcast this time.
0:05.1	We got Dan Jones.
0:06.1	He's one of your favorites.
0:07.1	I know.
0:08.1	I don't mind.
0:09.1	I'm fine with it.
0:10.1	I've got no ego in it comes to this.
0:11.1	Dan Jones, the more impressive of the various Dan to do public history in the UK, joined
0:15.0	lockdown.
0:16.0	He has written a gigantic book, a new history of the Middle Ages.
0:19.4	It is really good this book.
0:20.6	You're going to enjoy it a lot.
0:22.2	He just tells a gigantic story of this fascinating millennia of history.
0:27.4	You'd absolutely love it.
0:28.9	That more do I think we're just going to get into it.
0:30.2	I shall we'll just quickly say it.
0:31.4	Lots of people at the moment watching Dan Jones on the night's template.
0:34.6	We got that TV show on historyit.tv.
0:37.6	Please go and check it out.
0:39.0	Lots of people watching that the moment made that a few years ago, but you know, it's
0:42.9	time to test the time.
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