Tag: medieval

48 – Between Giants: Today’s episode is about Pepin the Short and of course, we have to start with his name. Pepin was not

Gary: Today’s special episode is by Arazoo Ferozan, Ph.D candidate at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Her work focuses on Mediterranean cross-cultural mercantile networks

Episode 47: The Battle of Poitiers Chapter 1: The Arabs and the Last Revelation The Battle of Poitiers, often called The Battle of Tours

Episode 45: The End of the Merovingian Dynasty For roughly 120 years from the ascension of Clovis I to Dagobert the scions of the

Episode 44: The Last Great Merovingian Kings In 584 Queen Fredegund gave birth to her fifth male child. Her four previous sons died at

Today’s episode is a little short and because of that I will be releasing a full one this Saturday, so consider this a bonus.

Today’s episode begins with a cliché that keeps hanging over people’s collective imagining of the post-Roman world: ‘the Dark Ages.’ In the early 14th

This episode and the next one or two will complete the Medieval Transformation series, as I talk about how life changed from late-Antiquity under