2025-03-30
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Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama.
These two centuries witnessed savage political bloodletting, including civil war,
deposition, the murder of kings and the ruthless execution of rebel lords,
as well as international warfare, devastating national pandemic,
economic crises and the first major peasant uprising in English history.
In today's episode,
historians Caroline Burt and Richard Partington discuss the six kings who ruled during these two centuries and significance of these monarchs to England's emergent statehood.
Burt and Partington are joined in conversation by medieval historian and author Helen Carr.
Let's join Helen now with more.
Welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm Helen Carr.
Our guests today are Caroline Burt and Richard Partington.
Caroline Burt is a medieval historian and college lecturer at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Her research focuses on the reigns of Edward I, 1272-1307,
and Edward II, 1307-1327, and on English governance during that period.
Richard Partington is senior tutor at St John's College, Cambridge.
He is an historian of late medieval British politics, war, law and crime,
with a particular interest in the 14th century and especially the rule of Edward III.