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Back to SearchThe Fall of the Roman Republic, Part 1: The Late Roman Republic in Theory and Practice
Season 3 Episode 50
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For the fiftieth (!) episode of this podcast, I'm taking a few centuries detour from the Middle Ages to talk about the fall of the Roman Republic. In this episode, the first of a two pa…
Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago
A medieval election
Season 3 Episode 49
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I know. Just what everyone needed, an episode about an election. To take a break from reading and watching election postmortems, I decided to return to one of my favorite teaching texts…
Published on 10 months ago
Con games, scams, and deceits of the medieval Near East exposed: "The Book of Charlatans"
Season 3 Episode 48
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This episode is devoted to a truly unique and pretty weird Arabic text, The Book of Charlatans by an obscure early thirteenth-century Arabic scholar, Jamal al-Din 'Abd al-Rahim al-Jawba…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Crusaders and Settlers in the Holy Land: Who Went and Why
Season 3 Episode 47
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In this episode I talk with the distinguished historian of the crusades Dr. Steven Tibble about the motivations of crusaders and of those Europeans who settled in the Crusader states of…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
The Battle That Destroyed the Military Forces of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: Hattin (1187)
Season 3 Episode 46
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On 3-4 July 1187 the Sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin enjoyed the greatest military victory of his career. The Battle of Hattin, a two-day battle fought along the road leading to the t…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Norway's highest-grossing film: Liv Ullmann's Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
Season 3 Episode 45
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Yes, Kristin Lavransdatter is the highest-grossing Norwegian film of all time. That isn't as impressive as it might sound, as the movie only brought in $3.7 million in box office receip…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Medieval Adultery in the Movies (with Kat Tracey)
Season 3 Episode 44
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This is the final episode--sort of*--of a multi-part series about medieval adultery in literature, history, and popular culture. My co-host Professor Larissa 'Kat' Tracey and I review h…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Medieval Adultery in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Opera and Literature (with Kat Tracey)
Season 3 Episode 43
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This is the third of a multi-episode series in which I chat with Dr. Larissa ‘Kat’ Tracey about literary representations of medieval adultery and its reality. In this episode Kat and I …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Medieval adultery, part 2 (with Kat Tracy): Tristan and Iseult and a late twelfth-century "National Enquirer" story
Season 3 Episode 42
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This is the second of a three part series with my very special co-host, Dr. Larissa 'Kat' Tracy, about adultery in the Middle Ages. In the previous episode, Kat and I talked about the L…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century (with Dr. John Hosler)
Season 3 Episode 41
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In this episode, my very special guest Dr. John Hosler draws upon the research he undertook for his book Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace (Yale University Press, 2022) …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago