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Episode 104: A Brothers Tale
In this episode we cover the Norman conquests of Southern Italy and Sicily between roughly 1025 and 1100. A series of brothers from the house Hautevi…
6 years, 11 months ago
Episode 103: The Lionheart and the Devil
In this episode we follow the reigns of King Richard I and King John as they battle to maintain their Plantagenent Empire against King Philip of Fran…
7 years ago
Episode 102: The Fourth Crusade - A Whole New Low
This episode covers the disaster that was the Fourth Crusade. Pope Innocent III will try and reinvigorate crusading and wind up sacking one of the mo…
7 years ago
Episode 101: Byzantine Update
In this episode we take a look at the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries from the Byzantine perspective. We will go from the death of Basil II through th…
7 years, 1 month ago
Episode 100: Endgame
In this episode we wrap-up the Third Crusade. Richard the Lionheart will battle Saladin to very end for Jerusalem. We will see how Richard's misunder…
7 years, 1 month ago
Episode 99: Battlefield Acre
Richard the Lionheart, King of England and the Angevin Empire, arrived in the Holy Land in June, 1191. When he arrived he found the crusaders already…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 98: The Surging Wave
In this episode we set the stage for the Third Crusade. Frederick Barbarossa will make an overland march to Asia Minor while Richard I and Philip Aug…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 97: Frederick Barbarossa
In this episode we follow the career and reign of the ruler widely considered to be Germany's greatest medieval Monarch: Frederick Barbarossa. In tot…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 96: Saladin and the Leper King
In this episode Saladin cements his hold over the Near East by subduing Damascus, Aleppo, and Mosul. Then he turns his attention to the Crusader Stat…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 95: The Goodness of the Faith
In this episode we turn back to the Near East as the fortunes of the Crusader States continue to fall. Nur al-Din presses his empire further and furt…
7 years, 4 months ago