Henry the Fifth is the book. Dan Jones is the offer. A new book out right now. I enjoyed this one immensely.

We'll get you to some of the story of who Henry V was and the time

that he was alive on everything that goes into it. I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

And I hope you read the book, too, because we didn't even touch everything that went on.

And a little life advice treat for you as well with an author episode.

I've talked about it a few times on the pod, so I'm very excited to do this.

Just finished up, Henry V, Dan Jones, the author joins us now.

And I had some holes in my medieval game, Dan.

So this was able to fill a bunch of these in, the battle between England and France,

which again, I knew it was a little dicey, didn't quite

realize all of the moving pieces. So thanks for doing this. How are you? Yeah, my pleasure.

It's great to talk about it. Can we start with something where I just wanted to understand

Kings and the origin and the ruling and the accepted form of government and

you know around the time period we're talking late 1300s early 1400s for the premise of

where we're at with the book but um your background your understanding of like how this became the

way during these centuries that it was the accepted form of government leadership?

Yeah, well, I mean, the story of Henry VIII takes place across the late 14th, 30, 15th century,

and by that point, nobody has really known in England any other form of government than a monarchy,

a monarchy sort of limited and some senses is assisted, in some senses resisted by

institutions, parliament, councils of nobles and the church and so on, but monarchy is like age

old at this point. I mean, you think about the regnal numbers of English kings, we're talking

about Henry V, Richard the 2nd, Henry 4th, or these date back to a very specific time, and that's the Norman conquest of 1066, when

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