Battle of the Eras: Medieval v. Early Modern
Not Just the Tudors
History Hit
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
What if the medieval world did not end with a bang, but with a messy argument over who gets to define history itself? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb spars with Gone Medieval's host Matt Lewis over Gutenberg, the Reformation, witchcraft, plague, the Renaissance, and the Wars of the Roses to ask where medieval ends and early modern begins. The result is a lively, surprising fight over power, change, and the making of the modern world.
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Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Max Wintle, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.
All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
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| 0:34.9 | Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit, |
| 0:40.7 | the podcasts in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs, |
| 0:45.2 | from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise, |
| 0:49.8 | relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft. |
| 0:54.0 | Not in other words, just the Tudors, |
| 0:56.3 | but most definitely also the Tudors. |
| 1:04.4 | Ever since Not Just the Tudors began five years ago, the question has popped up from time |
| 1:09.5 | to time about the range of years we cover |
| 1:12.0 | on the podcast. In my head, originally, we were starting in 1492 and ending in 1692, but as we've |
| 1:19.4 | just recorded an episode on the French Revolution, I don't think that holds at that end. |
| 1:24.5 | Anyway, more of that to come in future months. Well, what about the beginning? |
| 1:28.6 | We could claim that the Tudor age began with the reign of Henry the 7th in 1485, following |
| 1:33.7 | his victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field, which more or less ended the Wars of the Roses |
| 1:38.2 | and established the Tudor dynasty. But Henry Tudor and the circumstances that got him to the throne |
| 1:43.7 | could be argued to be part of the medieval period. |
| 1:47.0 | And of course our history hit sister podcast Gone Medieval |
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