Conquest and Anarchy 4: Succession Crises
folks, we're back with part four of our series on the Norman Conquest and English Anarchy. this time, the best laid succession plans of mice and men go awry. Despite a decade of relative peace toward…
01:09:19 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
Conquest and Anarchy 3: The Norman Yoke
folks, we're back with part three of our series on the Norman Conquest and English Anarchy where we finish up the rest of 1066 and see William the Conqueror crowned. then we turn to William's rule of…
01:14:16 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
Conquest and Anarchy 2: 1066 and All That
note: yes, there is echo on Eleanor's audio because she is travelling and the only place where she could record had tall ceilings and thus an echo. this also caused some weird feedback on Luke's trac…
01:13:28 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
Conquest and Anarchy 1: Before the Normans
folks, we're back with a new series, this one covering the Norman Conquest of England and then the Anarchy that followed about seventy years later. we were originally just going to do the Anarchy but…
01:35:46 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
More Patron Mailbag, More, More
folks, we're back with another patron mailbag episode, as promised. in this one, we answer a bunch of questions ranging from the justifications for predestination, usage of the term "Anglo-Saxon," th…
01:09:58 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
Patron Mailbag Time
folks, it's time for another mailbag episode to answer some of our backlog of patron questions! in fact, this is the first of two mailbags we're doing in a row, so there's more to look forward to nex…
01:00:14 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
The Galileo Affair
folks, we're back and this time, we're going to the Early Modern period to discuss the Galileo Affair. an odd, 23-year-long saga that saw the Catholic Church and Galileo Galilee go head-to-head over …
01:21:53 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
Charlemagne's Fail Sons
folks, we're back and we're talking once again doing another entry in our occasional series on large adult fail sons of the Middle Ages. Last time, we discussed Charlemagne, one of the most important…
01:08:44 |
Thu 13 Jun 2024
Charlemagne
folks, we're back and it's high time we talked about good ol' Karl the Great. no, not Marx, the Medieval Karl the Great, Charlemagne. though he's one of the most important figures in world history, w…
01:14:07 |
Thu 06 Jun 2024
We Demand Satisfaction feat. Paul Bavill from History Rage
folks, we're back and we've got Paul Bavill, co-host of the History Rage podcast, to talk with us about dueling, trials by combat, honor, and demands for satisfaction. we discuss why duels and trials…
01:01:20 |
Fri 31 May 2024
Saints of the Middle Ages
folks, we're back and it's time to talk about saints. tho we have often touched on the lives of various saints, we've never really talked through the whole process of canonization and how it changed …
01:18:00 |
Thu 23 May 2024
Napoleon feat Everett Rummage from Age of Napoleon
folks, you've been asking when we're doing a review of Ridley Scott's 2023 film, Napoleon, and it's finally here but with a twist! instead of just doing an entire review episode for a movie that came…
01:14:40 |
Wed 15 May 2024
Fall of Civs feat Paul M.M. Cooper
folks, we're always thinking about falling civilizations, aren't we? whether it's the old civilizations that fell long ago or fretting over when our current empires will fall, it's often on our minds…
00:55:41 |
Wed 08 May 2024
Weird Medieval 7: Weirdness Lightning Round
folks, we're closing out our series on Weird Medieval shit with a few quick hitters of weirdness that we haven't gotten to yet. so we bounce around to a few of them before ending it where the Middle …
00:59:39 |
Fri 03 May 2024
Weird Medieval 6: Medieval Footloose
folks, we're back with part 6 of our series on Weird Medieval shit and we start out in the Americas where the late Medieval Incan Empire was the most land of contrasts empire in all of history in ord…
01:14:10 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Weird Medieval 5: Chinese Inventions and the Mongols
folks, we're back with more weird, interesting, neat, and wild shit from the Middle Ages. this time, we explore the numerous Medieval inventions of Imperial China such as the compass, gunpowder, prin…
01:05:10 |
Thu 18 Apr 2024
Weird Medieval 4: Sweet Potatoes, Genetics, and Gold
folks, we're back on our weird Medieval shit with part 4 in our series. this time, we focus on the amazing fact that Medieval Norse and Polynesian peoples crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans…
01:11:20 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
Medieval Women's Anatomy Understander (Patreon Ep Unlocked)
as we said on the last episode, there's no new show this week due to travel and timing and all that, so we're unlocking a bonus episode from the Patreon for all listeners. if you're interested, this …
01:06:30 |
Wed 03 Apr 2024
Weird Medieval 3: Let's Rank Some Little Guys feat. Weird Medieval
folks, we couldn't do a series on weird Medieval shit without talking about our favorite weird Medieval little guys who show up in marginalia of illuminated manuscripts from the era. and to do so, we…
01:30:38 |
Thu 28 Mar 2024
Weird Medieval 2: Medieval Supernovae
we're back with the second episode of our Weird Medieval series and this time we're talking about space. in recorded history, only eight possible supernovae within the Milky Way have ever been witnes…
01:17:30 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
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