Heresy and Crusade in Southern France: The Cathars
Send us Fan Mail In this episode Ellen and I talk about a dualist heresy that was widespread in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern France and northern Italy. This heresy is generally known as C...
23 Heinä 202258min
The Saint Brice's Day Massacre of 1002: A Case of Medieval Ethnic Cleansing?
Send us Fan Mail In this episode Ellen and I talk about one of the more puzzling events in the history of England’s Viking Wars, the St. Brice's Davy Massacre. In the year 1002, King Æthelred "the Unr...
6 Heinä 202233min
Sanctity, Heresy, and Superstition: Saint Francis, the Heresiarch "Peter" Waldo, and a Holy Greyhound
Send us Fan Mail In this episode Ellen and I examine how Saint Francis became a saint and Waldo a heretic while following the same call to apostolic poverty, and why in the mid-thirteenth century it w...
15 Kesä 202259min
A Crusader Murder Mystery: The Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (By Real Assassins)
Send us Fan Mail On April 28, 1192 the newly elected king of Jerusalem Conrad of Montferrat was assassinated in the streets of the city of Tyre by two Assassins, the name by which the Crusaders knew t...
26 Touko 202258min
How Saladin Took Jerusalem: Two Eyewitness Accounts and a Movie
Send us Fan Mail Saladin's taking of Jerusalem, three months after the fighting forces of the Kingdom of Jerusalem were wiped out in the Battle of Hattin, precipitated the Third Crusade. Eyewitness a...
12 Touko 202250min
Magna Carta, Bad King John, and an English Crusade
Send us Fan Mail This episode places Magna Carta in its historical context, explains why it really isn't the foundation of Anglo-American liberty, reaffirms John's status as a really bad king (and per...
25 Huhti 202252min
An Anglo-Saxon Murder Mystery: How King Edward Became Edward the Martyr
Send us Fan Mail In 978 the eighteen-year old English king Edward was murdered while traveling to visit his younger half-brother Æthelred and his stepmother Ælfthryth. The murder transformed a trucul...
3 Huhti 202217min
My Favorite Medieval Epic: A Tale of Violence, Vengeance, and Betrayal
Send us Fan Mail The late twelfth-century Frence epic poem Raoul of Cambrai is a tale of violence, vengeance, and betrayal in which the basic bonds of society--feudal loyalty, family, and friendship--...
1 Huhti 202242min
