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Why medieval politics was nothing like Game of Thrones

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Pop culture often portrays the Middle Ages as a time of forceful personalities and warring dynasties. In this talk, historian Maria Golubeva explains how institutions — city councils, guilds and courts — had just as much (if not more) influence within society, and harbor important lessons about identity and politics in modern day.

Pop culture often portrays the Middle Ages as a time of forceful personalities and warring dynasties. In this talk, historian Maria Golubeva explains how institutions — city councils, guilds and courts — had just as much (if not more) influence within society, and harbor important lessons about identity and politics in modern day.

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Maria Golubeva

Maria Golubeva is a policy analyst and historian from Riga. She has studied History at Cambridge University (PhD, 1999) and has worked in Latvian public administration, in a public policy consultancy in Brussels, and at the think-tank Providus. She has published a number of policy studies and the book "Models of Political Competence" on history of political ideas in late medieval Europe.

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