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The Medieval World
Welcome to The Medieval World Podcast, where we explore fun and interesting pieces of medieval history. Each Friday, I publish a new episode. In addition to episodes, check out my lectures below. If there’s an episode or series you would like to see, let me know via email at themedievalworldpodcast@...
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Ep. 09: Medieval Birds in Thought
In this episode, we look at birds generally as they existed in the minds of medieval people. We talk about the different ways in which medieval people...
Ep. 08: Hobgoblin in the Ninth Century (Medieval Beasts)
In this episode, we look at an account of a hobgoblin in ninth-century France. This account comes from a ninth-century Carolingian author named Notker...
Ep. 07: Dirty Riddles and Farts
In this episode, we look at some dirty riddles from Anglo-Saxon England and a fart so powerful that it blinded a man.
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Ep. 06: Murder in a Church
In this episode, we look at murder (and a battle) in the Basilica of Saint-Martin in Tours, France.
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Ep. 05: The Case of a Criminal in a Church
In this episode, we look at a famous case of an escaped criminal who hides in a church. Can he legally be extradited from a church? We find out in thi...
Ep. 04: The Song of Roland (Medieval Tale)
This is a dramatization of the Song of Roland. It takes the entire epic and reduces it to just a 7 minute reading.
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Ep. 03: That Time a Viking Kissed a Foot
In this episode we look at the time Rollo had one of his Viking friends kiss the foot of King Charles the Simple of Francia.
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Ep. 02 - Medieval Beasts (Cynocephaly)
In this episode, our subject is Medieval Beasts. We look at a species of beasts known as Cynocephaly, or dog-headed men. No, these aren't werewolves.<...
Ep. 01: Medieval Murder (The Murder of a Pope)
In this episode, we look at the assassination of Pope Boniface VIII at the hands of Philip IV of France and his cronies in 1303.
Charlemagne 06: Boyhood (742-755)
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Charlemagne 05: Pippin the Short (751-768)
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Charlemagne 04: Charles the Hammer
In the last lecture, we looked at the history of the Carolingian family up to Pippin of Herstal. In this lecture, we zoom in and look at the life of h...
Charlemagne 03: The Carolingian Family
In the last lecture, we examined some of the key institutions of the Frankish realm. I briefly touched on some of the earlier figures of the Carolingi...
Charlemagne 02: The Institutions of the Frankish Kingdom
In the last lecture, we saw some of the salient features of the Frankish world. Towards the end, I noted the rise of an important family, that is, the...
Charlemagne 01: The Frankish World
Charlemagne is an oddity in the early medieval world. He’s odd not because of the things he did or how he acted. He’s odd because it is possible to co...
Medieval Europe 30: The End of the Middle Ages
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Medieval Europe 29: The Hundred Years War, Part II (1415-1453)
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Medieval Europe 28: The Western Schism (1378-1417)
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Medieval Europe 27: The Black Death (1347-1351)
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Medieval Europe 26: The Hundred Years War, Part I (1327-1386)
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Medieval Europe 25: The Avignon Papacy (1309-1376)
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Medieval Europe 24: The Capetians (1165-1328)
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Medieval Europe 23: The Plantagenets, Part II (1216-1327
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Medieval Europe 22: The Plantagenets, Part I (1154–1216)
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Medieval Europe 21: The First Crusade (1095-1099)
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Lecture 20: The Rise of the Normans
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Lecture 19: The Gregorian Reforms (1073-1085)
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Medieval Europe 18: The Investiture Controversy (1075-1077)
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Medieval Europe 17: The Year 1000
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Medieval Europe 15: The Anglo-Saxons (770-1066)
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Medieval Europe 14: The Vikings
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Medieval Europe 13: The Anglo-Saxons (500-750)
In this lecture, we meet the Anglo-Saxons who were the combined groups of the Angles, the Saxons, and a few smaller groups, such as the Jutes. All of...
Medieval Europe 12: Early Medieval Ireland
In this lecture, we explore early medieval Ireland. As we will see, Ireland was a much more diverse place in the medieval period that is today. Today,...
Medieval Europe 11: The Later Carolingians (814-926)
In the previous lecture, we looked at Charlemagne and the so-called Carolingian renaissance. I only briefly laid out Charlemagne’s life because I am p...
Medieval Europe 10: The Carolingian Renaissance
In the previous lecture, we met the Carolingian family. In this lecture, we are going to look closely at the most important member of this family, a m...
Medieval Europe 09: The Early Carolingians (688-760)
In a previous lecture, we looked at the Frankish World. We now return to that world by looking at a specific dynasty, or family, the Carolingians. We...
Medieval Europe 08: The Umayyad Invasions (711-732)
In the previous lectures, we the rise of the so-called “barbarian kingdoms” across Europe and how they began to forge new political boundaries across...
Medieval Europe 07 - Visigothic Spain (400-711)
If you have heard my lectures on Rome or listened to my earlier lecture on the Gothic War, then you should be somewhat familiar with the Goths. The te...
Medieval Europe 06: The Frankish World
In the previous few lectures, we have examined the Church and Christianity and the Lombards of Italy. In this lecture, I will be looking at the Franks...
Medieval Europe 05: Lombard Italy (533-774)
In an earlier lecture, I discussed the Gothic War in which the Byzantine Empire invaded Italy to try and reconquer the Italian Peninsula, which had on...