Henry V, the Greatest Medieval King: Interview with Dan Jones

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Henry V of England was the archetypal medieval king, a warrior par excellence whose example inspired English kings for centuries to come, the victor at Agincourt and conqueror of much of France. Tides of History's returning champion guest, Dan Jones, joins me to talk about his new book on Henry V, the king's childhood and adolescence, and why he matters today.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to Tides of History early and ad free right now.
0:04.4	Join Wunderry Plus in the Wundery welcome to another episode of Tides of History. I'm Patrick Wyman.
0:23.0	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:24.6	When we think about the Middle Ages,
0:26.2	kings are one of the first things to come to mind.
0:28.6	Warrior kings, more specifically,
0:30.5	gloriously armored and crowned figures on horseback, leading armies of similarly glorious knights into battle to win thrones and immortality.
0:38.0	There's some real truth to that image. It was an ideal, but one that plenty of kings actually tried to live up to.
0:44.0	Some succeeded, more maybe died trying.
0:47.1	The most successful of the mall, the true archetype of the medieval king, was Henry the 5th of England.
0:55.6	He ruled for less than a decade but in that time he won victory after victory expanding England's possessions in France from a small foothold to the entire northern half of the country.
1:00.8	Had he survived a bit longer, the two crowns might have been united for good as he had intended.
1:05.6	Or maybe not, because Henry died young, aged just 35. We'll never know. His early death brought him out of reality and into the realm of legend,
1:14.7	where he's stayed ever since, the subject of some of Shakespeare's greatest work, books and movies.
1:19.9	Today's guest is the foremost popular historian of the Middle Ages and he has a brand new book coming out on Henry the 5th entitled Henry the 5th the astonishing triumph of England's greatest warrior king.
1:31.2	He's also one of my favorite people in the world. Dan Jones is our
1:34.4	returning champion guest on Tides and the author of a whole bunch of outstanding works of
1:38.2	history, most recently Powers and Thrones, a new history of the Middle Ages, all of which I highly recommend. Dan has also
1:44.6	published two novels on the 100 Years War, Essex Dogs, and the Wolves of Winter.
1:48.2	Dan, thank you so much for joining me today.
1:50.5	Always, always a pleasure. So in the back and forth leading up to getting this
1:56.0	scheduled, you noted that Regis Philbin had been on Letterman 150 times and that that's
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