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Balthild of Francia with Isabel Moreira
Episode 314
This year, we’ve spent some good quality time with early medieval queens, digging into their mysterious and spectacular lives and reigns. And when it…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Medieval Vampire Epidemics with John Blair
Episode 313
As the nights get longer and spookier, there's one thing that's guaranteed to make our hair stand on end: corpses that just won’t stay dead. Especial…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Two Hundred Years' War with Michael Livingston
Episode 312
Although a lot of medieval history is murky, the whys and wherefores – not to mention the timeline – of the Hundred Years’ War are firmly nailed down…
5 months ago
Medieval Animal Names with Ben Parsons
Episode 311
Since time immemorial, we've given animals names, from the sublime to the utterly ridiculous. For everyone who’s looked at a puppy or a kitten and wo…
5 months, 1 week ago
Medieval Wolves with Elizabeth Marshall
Episode 310
In the dark forests of the Middle Ages – and the modern stories we tell about it – lurks a powerful, beautiful predator. Sometimes big and bad, somet…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
A New History of the Fourteenth Century with Helen Carr
Episode 309
The fourteenth-century is one of the most turbulent periods in European history. Famine, war, plague, royal depositions – you name it, this century’s…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Medieval Wills and Testaments with Robert A. Wood
Episode 308
One of the difficult truths of life in the Middle Ages is that death was never far away. While the vast majority of medieval people owned far fewer p…
6 months ago
Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation with Sara Butler
Episode 307
Everyone loves a good medieval whodunit, but how did real people investigate homicides in the Middle Ages? What did they look for? And how did they d…
6 months, 1 week ago
History in Flames with Robert Bartlett
Episode 306
Part of the reason a lot of people figure nothing much went on during the Middle Ages is because we’ve lost a whole lot of sources telling us what ac…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Æthelstan, First King of England with David Woodman
Episode 305
On September 4, 925 – 1100 years to the day this episode is released – King Æthelstan was crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames. Æthelstan is most often ta…
6 months, 3 weeks ago