Talking about popular conceptions of the Middle Ages and their historical realities. Join Richard Abels to learn about Vikings, knights and chivalry, movies set in the Middle Ages, and much more about the medieval world.
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This podcast is a linear telling of English History through the lives of each of their Monarchs. For lovers of historical fiction, it will fill in the gaps left by authors as well as explore the historical accuracy of those novels.
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When is the last time you solved a murder? In our Podcast series Crimes in the ER - Fact and Fiction, Annie Roling never expects to be solving murders as the Administrator of the Roosevelt Hospital Emergency Room. Until the night John Lennon died, her life centered on her adored daughter and unequal parts of an old beau, a new fiancé, a detective pal and medical colleagues. She now faces a series of ongoing challenges in the world of suspicious events and mysterious deaths. In the early 80’s ...
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A podcast about the real science behind your favorite science fiction themes and tropes. Each episode, I choose a recurring topic or two in science fiction, and then dive into how it works in reality. If you ever wanted to learn more about genetics, virtual reality, or space travel - this podcast is for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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I think we have already worked out that this guy is a bit of a dick. Well it is, as usual worse so let us meet him properly. Here he is marrying Mrs Maria Fitherbert without permission.Di dickshistory
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Medieval adultery, part 2 (with Kat Tracy): Tristan and Iseult and a late twelfth-century "National Enquirer" story
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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 Lancelot and Guinevere story. In this episode, we tackle the other great medieval tale of adulterous love, Tristan and Iseult. We begin, however, with a possible cont…
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Episode 353 – George goes nuts again
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Yes, the old boy is back on his medications or something or other. He is off with the fairies and oh dear, however will we cope.Di dickshistory
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Superstar Nelson will knock out the Frenchie navy and that will hurt Napoleon. He will though belt up the Russians and Germans at Austerlitz giving Ridley Scott happy visions of putting that in a movie.Di dickshistory
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Episode 351 – The 19th Century
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Shall we kick off the new century with war? Why not.Di dickshistory
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Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century (with Dr. John Hosler)
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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) to discuss what Jerusalem meant in the thought and imagination of Christians and Muslims in the twelfth century, and the role the city played in the Latin Kingdom of…
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Episode 350 – A Riot
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You can alway rely on Bristol for a riot every few years.Di dickshistory
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Episode 349 – The Empire Strikes Back
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In which the Indians lose India. But the British Government can see that the company has gone way too far and so will impeach Warren Hastings. Yes the only decent English guy to run the company is the one to cop it.Di dickshistory
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St. Thomas Becket, 2: the Martyrdom
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In this episode my co-host Dr. Jennifer Paxton and I explain the principles and personal grievances that led to the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket and the significance of that event for Church-State relations in medieval England. We also talk about T.S. Eliot’s and Jean Anouilh’s plays about Thomas’ martyrdom, and the movies based on those plays. T…
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It’s not so much as Britain winning an empire as India losing one.Di dickshistory
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Medieval Adultery (with Kat Tracy), part 1: Lancelot and Guinevere
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This is the first of a three part series about adultery in the Middle Ages. My co-host for both is Dr. Larissa 'Kat' Tracy. Last month Kat and I talked about my favorite medieval romance, Chretien de Troyes' late twelfth-century French poem "Yvain: The Knight with the Lion." Unlike the more famous medieval romances of Lancelot and Guinevere and Tri…
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War can mess up all sorts of things including a vote for a new pope.Di dickshistory
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The Frenchies seem to have their act together and have turned into winners. What we need is a mighty hero. Oddly enough one will turn up but can he do over the Frenchie mighty hero?Di dickshistory
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St. Thomas Becket, part 1: King Henry II and his Chancellor, Thomas Becket
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This is the first of two episodes on the career, historical context, and "afterlife" of England's most famous--and controversial--saint and martyr, St. Thomas Becket. My co-host for both is a veteran of this podcast, Dr. Jennifer Paxton of the Catholic University of America. In this episode we set the historical scene for Becket's martyrdom. Among …
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More war. Seems to be never ending.Di dickshistory
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What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. But it’s what we do.Di dickshistory
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In this episode Ellen and Richard talk about what a "crusade" was in the Middle Ages. Richard explains what modern historians mean by the term "crusade"--and why there is so little agreement. He also offers a response to a question posed by Nicholas Morton in the previous episode: How did the medieval Church reconcile its doctrine of love of enemy …
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Crusading Warfare in the East, 1099-1187
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My guest for this episode is Dr. Nicholas Morton, whom you may remember from our first episode about the Mongols. Today Nick and I will be talking about crusading warfare, in particular, about the military activities and challenges faced by the Crusader States established in the Levant by the First Crusade. Among the topics we will discussing are t…
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Episode 343 – Henry Benedict Stuart
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Time to meet Henry 9 (he thinks) – the very last Stuart who will end that line of incompetant kings.Di dickshistory
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Medieval Romance: The Knight with the Lion
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In this episode my guest host Professor Larissa 'Kat" Tracy and I discuss my favorite medieval romance, Chrétien de Troyes' late twelfth century poem, "Yvain, the Knight with the Lion." We place the poem within its historical context--the first European industrial and commercial revolution, and the emergence of a courtly society and culture--and an…
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Episode 342 – The Terror
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Mobs can be funny old things. The Frenchie mob have decided that industrialised killing would be good entertainment while making France great again.Di dickshistory
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The Mongol Conquest of Baghdad (1258)
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Last May, I spoke with Professor Nicholas Morton about the Mongols and their impact upon the medieval Near East. This episode digs deeper into that subject, focusing on the Mongol conquest and destruction of Baghdad in February of 1258. The Mongol sack of Baghdad is notorious for its brutality. Estimates of the number killed range from 90,000 to th…
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Episode 341 – Elizabeth’s last hurrah
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We all have to come to the end, my dear listener and that includes Elizabeth. But she will not be going quietly or sedately. It will be party to the end.Di dickshistory
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In which Elizabeth will face a trial of her peers on a charge of bigamy. Bigamy is very naughty for a girl. Elizabeth Pierrepont (née Chudleigh), Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull, who was convicted of bigamy in 1776, being already married to Augustus Hervey, later 3rd Earl of Bristol, when she married Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull.…
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Episode 339 – Elizabeth Chudleigh part 2
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For Elizabeth it will all go splendily well until it doesn’t. It then goes bigly badly.Di dickshistory
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A digression so we can meet Elizabeth who rocked England for a bit. Here she is as a pinup girl.Di dickshistory
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Yes they are plus George gets better. Charlotte will have her portrait done and here she is.Di dickshistory
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This year it will be the big guy.Di dickshistory
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Beowulf (2): translations, adaptations, and movies!
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In this episode, the second of a two part series, Dr. Chrissy Senecal and I continue our discussion of the Old English epic poem Beowulf. In it we talk about the challenges of translation and look at literary and cinematic adaptations of the poem. Sound clips in this episode: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” soundtrack (composer: Ennio Morricone) …
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Episode 335 – George gets sick
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Yes, our king is going a bit nuts. The silly hat might be silly but the silly wig can do your brain some harm.Di dickshistory
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Episode 334 – Back to India
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The English have taken their eye off the ball and will pay a price for that. Here’s a painting of an English square that is about to cop it bigly.Di dickshistory
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This is the first of a two-part series on the most famous monster story in pre-modern literature, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. My co-host for both is Dr. Christine Senecal of Shippensburg University. In this episode Chrissy and I talk about the poem itself. We begin with the story of the hero Beowulf and how as a youth he kills two monsters r…
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Episode 333 – Revolution in America
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Time to go to war for freedom and liberty and we aren’t too keen on the democracy bit just at the moment.Di dickshistory
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Episode 332- It’s On
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The English may now wish to try a bit of diplomacy but they have left it too late so it is going to be war. Just not like in the movies.Di dickshistory
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This is a revised--and a lot longer--version of our twenty-first episode ("Some thoughts about Hanukkah by a (secular) Jewish medieval historian"). That episode was just what the title said, some thoughts about the role of Hanukkah in contemporary America and the Middle Ages. In it Ellen had a throwaway line about the Puritan war on Christmas. I th…
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Continuing the story of the joys of being a colonialist. Future President George Washington is depicted at the U.S. Constitutional Convention.Di dickshistory
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So what’s it like in America? Maybe not that good.Di dickshistory
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“Feudalism” was once accepted by academic and popular historians alike as a defining, if not the defining, feature of medieval society. For military historians, the High Middle Ages, the period from around 1050 to 1300, was once the Age of the Feudal Knight. This is no longer the case. If academic historians use it at all in their writings or class…
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Episode 329 – It Just Got Worse
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In which we find out what the corporate response is to a natural disaster. If you guessed make more money then well spotted.Di dickshistory
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Episode 328 – Back to India
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It is time for our British to effect a corporate take over – of a country. It will be a hostile take over.Di dickshistory
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She might be a bit dull and boring. Just what George wants.Di dickshistory
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Episode 326 – George and Charlotte
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Let the magnificence beginDi dickshistory
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In our third and final episode of the series, Richard talks with Professor Ryan Lavelle of the University of Winchester in the U.K. about Alfred the Great. Dr. Lavelle is a leading expert on Anglo-Saxon and Viking warfare. He is also the historical consultant for the BBC/Netflix television series "The Last Kingdom," based on the Saxon Chronicle nov…
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George has some rather nice ideas. Just a shame that humans are not always nice. Here’s a picture of his mum and dad for you.Di dickshistory
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Episode 324 – George 3
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It’s a new king!Di dickshistory
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This is the second of a three part series about King Alfred of Wessex (reigned 871-899), the only English king to be called "the Great." In this episode Ellen and I chat with Dr. Barbara Yorke, Professor Emeritus at the University of Winchester in the U.K.. Professor Yorke is arguably the world's leading expert on Anglo-Saxon Wessex. She and I shar…
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Yes, Robert Clive is certainly about to bring home the bacon big time. Then there won’t be much at all to slow down the British merchants from making big piles of cash.Di dickshistory
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King Alfred: was he really all that 'great'?
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After a hiatus we are back with the long promised episode about King Alfred of Wessex (871-899), the only English king to be called "the great." In this episode, Richard gives an overview of Alfred's reign and accomplishments and explains why the Victorians thought he was great--and why Richard does as well. The musical introduction is the opening …
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Episode 322 – The Black Hole
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Yes, that would be the one in Calcutta. Some English, led by a stupid Englishman will meet some Indians led by a stupid Indian. It won’t go well.Di dickshistory
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Episode 321 – George 2 is no more
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Yes, he wasn’t much of a role model as a family man. Bit awful really so bring on George 3. I hear he’s a bit of a mad bugger.Di dickshistory
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