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Medieval Women with Eleanor Janega
Episode 190
What made for the ideal woman in the Middle Ages? In her new book The Once and Future Sex, Dr. Eleanor Janega looks at what beauty, sexuality, work a…
3 years, 7 months ago
Erotic Medieval Poet: Gwerful Mechain
Episode 189
Wales in the Medieval period had a thriving bardic tradition and one poet is particularly fascinating. Gwerful Mechain lived in the second half of th…
3 years, 7 months ago
Vikings & The Rus in Medieval Ukraine
Episode 188
One year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine. While the invasion and subsequent war have largely been driven by modern geopolitics, the history of the two co…
3 years, 7 months ago
Birth of Cornwall
Episode 187
In the fifth century, Western Europe began remaking itself in the turmoil that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire. In south-west Britain, old …
3 years, 7 months ago
The Gough Map: One of Britain's Earliest Maps
Episode 186
Maps. They are an essential part of modern life. But when and how did people in medieval Britain first start mapping their surroundings? The Gough Ma…
3 years, 8 months ago
Women and the Crusades
Episode 185
Women were an integral feature of the crusade movement. They were not only sometimes participants on the battlefields but also played their part recr…
3 years, 8 months ago
Sandby Borg Massacre: The Evidence
Episode 184
When archeologists uncovered a jewellery hoard buried beneath the Iron Age ring fort of Sandby Borg in 2010, their excitement was palpable. Yet littl…
3 years, 8 months ago
Origins of Treason in England
Episode 183
First defined in law in 1352, treason remains one of the most serious crimes a person can commit. And, remarkably, the core of the original Treason A…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Monastery That Held Back the Vikings
Episode 182
For monks and monasteries in Anglo-Saxon England, obliteration by Vikings was a constant threat. Like Lindisfarne - first raided in 793 AD - religiou…
3 years, 8 months ago
Edward III, His Queen & His Mistress
Episode 181
Edward III wed Philippa of Hainault when they were both teenagers. It was a marriage of deep affection lasting 41 years. But when Alice Perrers enter…
3 years, 8 months ago