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A narrative history podcast following the journeys of medieval travellers and their roles in larger historical events. Telling great stories, showing the interconnected nature of the medieval world, and meeting Mongols, Ottomans, Franciscans, merchants, ambassadors, and adventurers along the way.
Medieval Lives 11: William Fitz Osbert and the Unrest in London
Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World
42 minutes
7 months ago
Medieval Lives 11: William Fitz Osbert and the Unrest in London
A 12th-century execution and the mixed messages in the chronicles around how things had gotten to that point. Did William with the Long Beard offer a better life to those unhappy in Richard I's London, or did he just take advantage of their misery to serve his own vices?
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Sources:
The Annals of Roger de Hoveden, translated by Henry T. Riley. Henry G. Bohn, 1853.
The Church Historians of England, volume IV, part II, translated by Joseph Stevenson. Seeley's, 1861.
Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History, translated by J. A. Giles. Henry G. Bohn, 1849.
Alexander, Dominic. "'The People are the Waters': Social Revolt in London, 1196-1381," Counterfire. May 30, 2021.
Dennis, David E P. "The Rise and Fall of William Fitz Osbert."
McEwan, John. "William FitzOsbert and the Crisis of 1196 in London," Florilegium. Volume 21, 2004.
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Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World
A narrative history podcast following the journeys of medieval travellers and their roles in larger historical events. Telling great stories, showing the interconnected nature of the medieval world, and meeting Mongols, Ottomans, Franciscans, merchants, ambassadors, and adventurers along the way.
