There are quite a few YouTube videos on English history on YouTube,
and it is all quite fascinating. Here is how I make sense of it.
The little sugary quote above actually holds the key to understanding
the formation of Western Europe as we know it today: with France and
England as distinct countries, as geography would seem to suggest.
The set up for conflict arises from the sequence of how peoples came
to inhabit those regions. The Celts actually colonized the edges of the
bodies of water and both areas fell under Roman control with .
Later, Germanic tribes - the Franks for France - then the Angles and Saxons
for England, spilled over from Germany from the East. And finally, the Vikings from
Scandinavia - themselves seafarers - raided both parties.
The Hundred Years' War is about England and France being distinct countries.
The War of the Roses is a civil conflict within Britain about who should rule. The
advent of the Tudors (from Théodore) is the Renaissance. The death of Elizabeth 1
(daughter of Henry VIII, who famously disposed of various wives in search of a male
heir, and created the Church of England) gives England a Scottish King.
If tribal kings were dominant within their tribe, medieval Kings were meant to
lead dominant armies and ultimately nations. Henry VIII had invoked the divine right of
Kings to justify his actions, but here it is the right which is divine in scope. The divinity
notion would take a tragic turn in France, leading to the French Revolution of 1789.
So how should Kings be chosen, and counties governed. Primogeniture says the first
male born. 'Agnatic' is male, 'cognatic' male and female, cadet branch runs succession through
cadet members of a family ie younger than first-born...
Happy YouTube!
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