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Histories of the Middle Ages: Powers and Thrones and Magnificence

Dan Jones and Richard Barber

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

2:00pm

1 hour

Weston Lecture Theatre

£7 - £12.50

Bestselling historians Dan Jones and Richard Barber discuss the approaches they took to writing about the history of the Middle Ages in their latest books.

Jones’s Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
is an epic story of how the world we know it today came to be built. Jones covers a thousand years from the sacking of Rome by the Barbarians in AD410 to the first contacts between the new and old worlds in the 16th century. Jones, a bestselling historian and a well-known broadcaster, argues three key themes underpinned the success of the west – commerce, conquest and Christianity.

Barber’s Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages looks at the idea of ‘magnificence’, a display of kingly grandeur expected of monarchs in the clothes they wore and in the courtiers, artists, musicians and architects they employed. Barber looks at the objects and occasions but also at the character of the kings and the servants, craftsmen, artists and musicians that contributed to this magnificence. Barber’s previous books include The Knight and Chivalry, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe.

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FT Weekend Title partner University of Oxford Netflix European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme BBC World Service International radio partner Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Cervantes Institute, London Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner International Literary Properties Supporters of the festival green room Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme The Feathers Hotel Woodstock festival hotel John Roberts Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Emily Rose and James Marrow Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Miles Young Masumi and Jonathan Dobson George Warren Pank Koria CEO of Project People Lucian Hudson Carole and John Allen David Isaac Jill Dunsmore Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Marlene Hauser Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival New College Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Cross College St Cross College Trinity College Trinity College Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner TORVA Books which change you, your mind, your world Transworld Doubleday Doubleday Bantam Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Foodbuy Thje Menu Partners Institute of Hospitality Project People Royal Academy of Arts British Academy Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily The Oxford Times Regional media partner BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford Critchleys Accountants to the festival The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford Brookes University Siren Communications Siren Communications - corporate consultants OX magazine Ox in a Box K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Chêne Bleu Wines of Provence La Leccia Flip through Flanders Literature Ireland Confucius Institute Pusey House James Currey Society The Wild Geese