Podcast Episodes

The Battle of Maldon

Season 8 Episode 319

Battles don’t appear out of thin air, not even in honor cultures. There’s a reason, a context, that develops long before soldiers or warriors enter a…

7 years, 3 months ago

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Chaos is a Ladder

Season 8 Episode 318

By 984 the Regency council had been broken and a new inner circle of nobles had been elevated.  And this development was accompanied by a rapid serie…

7 years, 3 months ago

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A Culture of Corruption

Season 8 Episode 317

At 16 years old, King AEthelred was considered fully grown by Anglo Saxon standards. And as a bonus graduation present, the powerful Bishop AEthelwol…

7 years, 4 months ago

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The Old Guard

Season 8 Episode 316

Before we get back to our story, I’ve been seeing your conversations online and it made me realize I need to clarify something.   Some of you took th…

7 years, 4 months ago

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The Cracks in the Foundation

Season 8 Episode 315

“Under AEthelred nothing was done; or, more truly, throughout his whole reign he left undone those things which he ought to have done, and he did tho…

7 years, 4 months ago

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Æthelred: Are You Ready?

Season 8 Episode 314

King Edward, like those before him, had died under mysterious and apparently violent circumstances. And the next in line for this increasingly bloody…

7 years, 4 months ago

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How to Make a Martyr

Season 8 Episode 313

“No man can make himself king, but the people have the choice to choose as king whom they please; but after he is consecrated as king, he then has do…

7 years, 5 months ago

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King Edward

Season 8 Episode 312

King Edgar is Dead… and in his place reigned his son, King Edward of England. And you’d think that we’d be referring to him as King Edward the First.…

7 years, 5 months ago

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Team Edward

Season 8 Episode 311

King Edgar the Peaceable was buried at Glastonbury in 975. But weirdly that isn’t the end of his story. William of Malmesbury tells us that nearly a …

7 years, 5 months ago

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Political Theater

Season 8 Episode 310

Human beings can’t really be summed up in a nickname. Usually we are more complicated than a word or two. And sometimes, the nickname just doesn’t re…

7 years, 6 months ago

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