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Ep 210 - They Lied to You About the Middle Ages...And It's By Design with Author Jeb Smith
Everything you were taught about the Middle Ages is wrong. The kings were tyrants. The peasants were starving. The feudal system was oppressive. Democracy is the greatest system ever devised. You learned it in school, you saw it in movies, and you never questioned it. Jeb Smith did...and what he found will make you rethink everything.
James sits down with author and historian Jeb Smith to break open his book Missing Monarchy: Correcting Misconceptions about the Middle Ages, Medieval Kingship, Democracy, and Liberty.
Jeb walks through what a true medieval king actually was, why medieval…
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