The Greatest Dynasty of Medieval France: Interview with Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It's been a while since Tides of History has gone to the Middle Ages, and a wonderful new book - House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France - provides us with the opportunity to return. Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker is one of the world's leading experts on medieval France, and she joins the show to talk about her new book, the Capetian dynasty, and how medieval politics actually worked.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to Tides of History early and ad free right now.
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0:11.0	Hi everybody from Wundery. Welcome to another episode of Tides of History. I'm
0:16.9	Patrick Wyman. Thanks so much for joining me today. It's been a while since we've
0:20.8	discussed the Middle Ages here on Tides of History, but the medieval period will always be my first love and an area of great interest.
0:27.0	So when I heard that a fine historian whose work I've really enjoyed in the past was publishing a new book on the Capetian dynasty, the
0:33.4	rulers of France for more than 300 crucial years, I thought this would be a fine time to
0:37.4	return to that age. Medieval Royals make for fascinating characters. In few other times and places was Royal Power so intensely
0:45.2	personal, so dependent on individual qualities and relationships. Royal Power was limited
0:50.6	in essential ways, not just by personality, but also by the powers and expectations of
0:54.8	other stakeholders in medieval states, ranging from great lords to bishops. That is the foundational
1:00.4	dynamic of medieval politics, the intersection between the qualities of individual power brokers,
1:04.8	the relationships between them, and the structural ideas of how those people were supposed to and allowed to behave.
1:11.4	Today's guest has done outstanding work on those dynamics.
1:15.0	Justine Ferranhaber Baker is professor in the School of History at the University of
1:18.4	St Andrews in Scotland. She's also the author of a brand new book that I loved
1:22.4	in which I highly recommend to you all,
1:24.1	entitled House of Lilies, the Dynasty that Made Medieval France. Her previous books include
1:29.3	the Jacques-E of 1358, a French peasants revolt, and violence and the state in Langadoc 1250 to 1400,
1:35.9	which was one of the best books that I read on medieval politics.
1:38.8	Professor Ferranhaber, thank you so much for joining me today.
1:41.3	Well, I'm delighted to be here, and I'm delighted that you liked violence in the state in Longdock.
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