Richard the Lionheart - Professor Robert Bartlett

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[melc]

Professor Bartlett is my favorite presenter of education. I saw his name and immediately had to watch it. It’s just his knowledge and talent of expression that is so good.

[xueyingesmewang]

I came from the documentary of the Plantagenets. Professor Bartlett always presents with such clarity and nice structure, as a layman I cannot appreciate it more, thanks.

[swampfox]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for these great videos. As an American I've never had the opportunity to be exposed to this history unless I really go out and search for it. As a father of 4 I don't have time to spend the time needed at the library, but I can listen to these great videos while I drive and learn a tremendous amount.

[divanbuys]

I LOVE these stories told by Professors.

[grammeb]

Thank you, Prof. Bartlett, for an excellent presentation.

[PaddyV]

Professor Robert Bartlett combines briiliant historical detail with a fantastic narrative - I really enjoy his work

[waykool]

This professor is an Excellent story teller of history.

[paulamos]

Superb presentation 👏 by professor Bartlett.Heres hoping for more great stories from the middle ages.

[davepangolin]

Prof. Bartlett is a supreme presenter of history and is well under used by the TV firms. Instead they insist on using Dan Snow to present. The result is always a potted history at 'O' level standard and thats being generous.

[loganbagley]

I am grateful that Prof. Bartlett gave context to the statement that Richard only spent six months of his reign in England. Richard was a warrior king who ruled over the huge Angevin Empire, and it would make sense that he would spend most of his time where the actual fighting was, which was in his continental lands in Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine. I think that if he had spent more time in England like his brother John, people today would be criticizing Richard for neglecting his French lands, which were constantly under threat from French lords and nobles.

[susanhepburn]

Thank you very much for this. I have seen a TV series presented by Professor Bartlett which I greatly enjoyed and founf this video very interesting.

[lindahouston]

Excellent lecture! Thank you for posting it.

[aussiegirl]

I loved the presentation. Reminded me so much of my history lectures from university many years ago. Thank you.

[janetbate]

Very informative as always. Easily understood, and very enjoyable.

[darylhaire]

Love the format of these videos. Nothing fancy just good narrative history.

[aarondemiri]

lion in winter is a superb play and the film with Peter O'toole is fantastic

one of the first historical figures I ever learned about and one of the men who I enjoy learning the most about

[petah-peoplefortheendlesst]

I loved Bartlett's Plantagenets docuseries

[betsyross.]

You couldn't begin to have hoped for a better course at a world class university....

[AliRadicali]

I think it's a fair criticism of Richard that he did not marry and conceive an heir before leaving for the crusades. Had he left an heir, even just an infant, his enemies would have had a much harder time rallying support during Richard's captivity because the succession would be secure, making their own claim to the throne weak (and his own bargaining position that much the stronger). And sure, sometimes might or treachery still prevails in a dynastic dispute, but the lack of an heir made John and Arthur's positions unnecessarily strong. It created uncertainty, which could then be exploited by opportunists like John and Philip Augustus.
It just seems like a dereliction of one of the principal duties of a monarch. It is all the more important for an absentee monarch to leave a successor because without one, any contender is a very short step from the throne. A secure base of power discourages dissent and shall we say, "ambitious" thinking.

[ShayStar]

There is almost no mention of Eleanor of Aquitaine. I thought she was instrumental in raising the ransom money for his release and she brought Berengaria of Navarre to Richard on his way to the holy land.