Is walking its echoey halls to get to a book talk just the tiniest bit strange? Sure, but with its stained glass windows, marble halls and quiet residents, it’s got more character than your typical hotel conference room. The newly rechristened LitFest in the Dena (formerly known as LitFest Pasadena) is back for a second year at Mountain View Mausoleum in Altadena this Saturday and Sunday, May 6-7, from 12:30 to 6 p.m.Īnd yes, mausoleum means what you think it does.
Going inside the medieval castle with archaeologist Alban Gottfrois, Dan learns all about the assault that the English made on the city - the burial place of William the Conqueror - and the devastating outcome of the attack.īut here are at least two sides to every story, so Dan also investigates the moves of Edward’s opponent, Philippe VI of France, and finds out that, although the campaign may have started well for the English, as they approach Rouen things will take a horrible turn for the worse… the hunters will become the hunted.Do you have book plans this weekend? Along with visiting some local shops for Free Comic Book Day, I’m planning to attend one of my favorite Southern California book festivals – one that’s held at a very unlikely locale. Within weeks the English had rampaged across Normandy, and now stood at the gates of one of the most important cities in France - Caen. Elodie Giard to investigate their terrifying scorched-earth policy: the chevauchée. Lo, Dan discovers the brutal tactics that the English employed during their campaign - and meets Dr.
Michael Livingston, Dan explores how the English army fought, and crucially, how it was supposed to operate in hostile lands.Īrriving in the medieval market town of St. In the first episode Dan travels through the beautiful cities and fertile countryside of Normandy, just like Edward and his men did in 1346, smashing through towns like Valognes and Carentan. In his latest project, the meticulously researched historic novel “Essex Dogs”, Dan has imagined what life would be like for these common soldiers battling through Normandy and beyond - this was an army that was notorious for destroying and pillaging everything in their path. The King of England was here to claim the throne of France for himself.īut Dan isn’t just interested in the princes and lords in charge of the campaign, but the ordinary men of Edward’s army. On 12th July 1346, a huge English invasion fleet landed on the shores of Normandy. Historian Dan Jones sets out on a journey across Northern France, following in the footsteps of Edward III and his English army on their Crécy Campaign - one of the earliest and bloodiest raids of the Hundred Years' War.
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