Season 5 | Bonus: Beasts at feasts

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

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Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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To mark the launch of season 5, we are dishing out a free sample of This is History Plus. Each week Dan and producer Georgia explore strange tangents and delicious Medieval gossip. This episode serves up some of the most excessive Mediaeval shopping lists and feasts including an out-of-place porpoise and several thousand chickens. Plus, why Robert the Bruce killed someone in a church, and was Edward II a jock or a nerd? This Is History Plus also includes hours of interviews with celebrated historians, the entire backlog of main episodes ad-free and the chance to ask Dan your questions. You can try it out with a seven day trial: head to historypod.com or click ‘try free’ on Apple podcasts. A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Presented by Dan Jones and Georgia Mills Producer - Dom Tyerman Assistant producer: Harry Gordon Executive Producer - Louisa Field Production Manager - Jen Mistri Marketing - Kieran Lancini Mixing - Gulliver Lawrence-Tickell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Dan here. This is an episode of This is History Plus our special subscriber only show
0:07.3	which we record after every main episode. Hope you enjoy it. I'll see you at the end. Hello and welcome to a brand new season of This is History Plus, our weekly medieval deep dive into
0:30.4	all the juiciest tangents and subplots from the world of the Plantagenets.
0:35.2	I'm joined again this series by producer Georgia.
0:38.0	Hi Dan, delighted to be back for another season and it's not getting any calmer. So we've got an aging increasingly
0:44.8	crazy sounding Edward the first who's trying to sort everything out in Scotland
0:48.2	before he dies and a very exciting new king to be the party prince Edward II. So you started this episode
0:56.0	with a party the feast of the swans and this got me thinking about
0:59.7	medieval feasts and food in general.
1:02.5	All the things you say are at this feast sound very nice.
1:05.7	So what was the kind of general vibe of a feast?
1:09.4	Were they eating this amount of royal birds all the time?
1:11.9	Was this a really special event? Well this time was this really special event?
1:13.2	Well this is definitely a really special event and feasts are aware I suppose feasts do two things.
1:20.1	Firstly it's feeding people you know it is it is a sort of communal meal, but there's a great
1:25.5	symbolic political importance to feasting in the Middle Ages, which is why you see, for example,
1:31.1	whenever a new king is crowned, there'll be a coronation banquet, and it's not just
1:35.2	about showing largesse and hosting people for dinner, it's also a very visible way of manifesting political power. So, although the Feast of the Swans is not a coronation
1:46.2	feast, it has a lot of really high symbolic importance. It's the making of all these new
1:52.3	knights. It's the making of all these new knights. It's the sort of cryptic
1:54.8	symbolic bringing out of these swans so that everyone can swear an oath. It's like a
2:00.0	it's a sort of reset a pivot point in the rain that's designed to kind of galvanise opinion.
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