Daily: MEDIEVAL GENIUS – Historian DAN JONES on the Middle Ages you don’t know

<p>The Middle Ages are an unloved tract of history, by turns alien and baffling – but these thousand years of violence, crisis and conquest set the foundations for our modern world in the most unexpected ways. Historian, TV presenter and journalist <strong>Dan Jones</strong> tells Alex Andreou how his new book <em>Powers and Thrones </em>unveils<em> </em>a medieval world few of us understand, the parallels between Millwall and the Middle Ages, and why Dick Whittington deserves more than his panto fame…</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“The real Dick Whittington was an oligarch – and a mayor in France.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“We treat ‘medieval’ as an insult but the medieval world is not that different to our own.”</em></li><li><em>“The things that animated people in the Middle Ages like climate change and plagues still animate us now.”</em></li><li><em>“Unlike Empress Theodora, Dominic Cummings won't be that important in twenty years.”</em></li><li><em>“The Crusades was more than a clash of civilisations – and you don’t learn that at school.”&nbsp;</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Dan-Jones/Powers-and-Thrones--A-New-History-of-the-Middle-Ages/25535694" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Dan-Jones/Powers-and-Thrones--A-New-History-of-the-Middle-Ages/25535694</a>&nbsp;</p><br><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>