Britainology 39: The Royals feat. Dr Eleanor Janega
This month we've spoken with friend of the show and knower of medieval history Dr Eleanor Janega (@GoingMedieval) on the topic of the British monarchy. Not just the current state of affairs (although we do get into that), but also the unbroken lineage all the way back to 1066. Why is it that we've simply put up with it for so long?
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Oh shit, did we get a rare Dr. Eleanor Moan.wav?
i mean, famously, assassinating a woman without a security detail is only the realm of the smart and powerful, no stupid low level guys have ever hired someone to cause a car crash
I was watching a documentary about the Rothschilds (it was about their legacy of patronage in the arts) and an interviewer asked a member of the family why they weren’t really accepted by the other members of the British aristocracy and they went: “My Dear, we’re Jewish” One of the most elite families in the world still gets shit on by a group of people who basically just have very fancy robes moldering in a closet. Wild. Also isn’t there only like 3 very famous aristocratic Catholic families in the UK? I wanna say the Duke of Norfolk is the oldest.
OK, did not expect the premium-ass-moan there
What's crazy to me is that William the Conqueror's descendants still live to this day and control the very same land they enclosed from the peasants nearly 1000 years ago. It's just mad thinking about the results of something like that being with us in the tangeable present.
OK, but we legit need an Epistemology of Noncing
A Nonce-sense if you will
It's too bad you didn't talk about the Glorious Revolution, when they took the Dutch Stadtholder and made him king because James II was being too catholic.
The Milo Wikipedia finds on this series are always a blast. You can tell he had at least a dozen tabs open looking for some stuff to do bits with
My pet peeve in American historical education is the fact that we spend so little time on the period between the end the revolution and the Constitutional Convention. It ends up completely misleading people about the origins of the Constitution and the ways in which it was a counterrevolution against the revolution. This also happens to be the first concrete class struggle of the young nation, and when you look into it, you discover that the refusal of Americans to ever get over their obsession with how their currency is backed is just the perpetual haunting of the revolution that was ended.
My pet peeve in American historical education is how we never focus on the international aspect to the revolution. Understanding the War of Austrian Succession and Seven Years War is basically required to understand why England and France did things the way they did. Listening to the Revolutions podcast shed so much light on how much surrounding American culture, religion, and politics is rooted in international politics and English history.
lady colin campbell is a white jamaican and yeah they all really do sound like that (upper class jamaicans of all races, really). ive lived here my whole life, bar 3 years in london, and it is jarring to hear every time
after her dad got owned by the red army, her mum got a divorce and was like ohh fuck this Aristo shit I'm moving to eastern Sydney, marrying a guy who works at the council and becoming a hair dresser
I think the key to understanding Princess Micheal of Kent, is she's ashamed of actually being Australian.
Henry IV gave Manuel II Palaiologos 2 grand, but Manny gave Britain caesaropapism. (Legally speaking this is not historical advice.)