Paul Lockhart on How Guns Transformed Western Civilization

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Wright State University professor Paul Lockhart about the enormous military and political upheavals set in motion by the adoption of gunpowder-based weapons from the 13th Century onward—including the demise of the medieval castle, the empowerment of large centralized states, and the deployment of permanent standing armies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where free thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.0	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
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0:36.0	We have less than 20 men. England is
0:38.0	England is mine,
0:41.0	England is mine Albany God's will bestowed it unto me.
0:47.0	This castle belongs to me!
0:50.0	Take over! Take cover. Welcome to the second to last Quilett podcast of 2021, which I'm recording amid new lockdown
1:07.1	provisions caused by the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID.
1:11.6	If you're listening to this in late 2021, I hope you are COVID-free and safe.
1:17.2	And if you're listening to this in the future, well, please enjoy this morbid little time
1:21.3	capsule from what I hope turns out to be the tail end of this
1:24.8	by now two-year pandemic. Anyway what you just heard is a snippet from the poorly reviewed
1:30.9	2011 action film Ironclad in which a tiny band of 13th century
1:36.7	Knights tries to hold an important castle against the evil English King John
1:41.7	played by Paul Giamatti, who you heard just there.
1:45.7	As one might expect, the creators took extensive liberties with historical events, but at the heart of
1:51.5	the narrative is a real historical truth. Back in those early days
1:55.3	even very small castle garrisons could hold off large armies because it was
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