Scott here with another episode of the History and Plug podcast.

France and England both look at the Hundred Years' War, fought in the 13 and 1400s,

is the defining moment when their nations moved out of the Middle Ages and started to become

modern nation states. England enjoyed some of its greatest military victories in its history,

such as Henry V's triumph at A military victories in its history, such as Henry

the Fifth's triumph at Agincourt in 1415, were Longbowman mowed down French cavalry,

and France celebrates Joan of Arc's 1429 relief of Orleans, leading to the turning point

of the war in France's ultimate triumph. But today's guest, Michael Livingston, argues that this

narrative leaves out a lot. The Hundred Years' War wasn't a

battle determined whether or not England would or wouldn't hold power on the European

continent. Instead, it was a multi-century-long realignment of borders that were created after

Charlemagne's death in the 800s and finally reassembled when France defined itself in the

1400s and set up its place in the world. Michael's the author of the

New Book Bloody Crowns, a new history of the 100 years war. He says it should be called the 200-year

war because it actually began in 1292 when battles broke out between English and Norman

French trading ships off the French coast, and the war only ended in 1492 with a treaty between

England and France. Although you could

say it actually went out to 1800, only when King George finally took the floor de Lee off the British

Royal Arms. This episode, we look at character profiles of all the fantastic figures in the war like

Henry V, Philip V, Philip V and Joan of Arc, and see what is and isn't correct with British and French

national myths, and now sometimes battles and wars't correct with British and French national myths,

and now sometimes battles and wars that can seem short-lived or even long-lived, like the

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