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The Plantagenets are explored and shared with brilliant author, Dan Jones, and he articulates the importance and influence of the "Warrior Kings and Queens," who steered England and laid the foundations of contemporary democracies. GUEST BIO: Dan Jones is a historian and an award-winning journalist. His first book, Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, was published in 2009 and was an Independent book of the year. His second book, published in the UK as The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England, and in the USA as The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings And Queens Who Made England, was a #1 bestseller and a book of the year in the Observer, The Times and the Sunday Telegraph. Dan studied history at Cambridge University, where he was taught by David Starkey and Helen Castor. He graduated with a First in 2002. As a journalist he writes a regular column for the London Evening Standard and is also published widely on both sides of the Atlantic, in the Times, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Literary Review, GQ, The Daily Beast, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. ADD'L LINKS: http://www.amazon.com/The-Plantagenet... http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Boo... https://www.facebook.com/danjoneshist... Media Mayhem Full Episodes Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJSc3F... Media Mayhem Shorts Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14bbAQ... https://www.facebook.com/thelip.tv EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 00:01 Coming up on Media Mayhem. 00:56 Welcoming Dan Jones. 01:47 From the Peasant Revolt to the Plantagenets. 09:20 Poll Taxes and people's revolts. 11:12 The relationship between the church and the royals. 16:20 King Henry of England (and a bit of France). 19:05 The control of French territories. 24:57 The mechanical system of government in England. 30:42 The building blocks of parliamentary and congressional government. 34:13 The chain of rulership. 39:07 The ways that the Plantagenets informed the modern age.