'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages

Send us Fan Mail 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 b...

10 Maalis 20241h 8min

Send us Fan Mail 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 ag...

2 Maalis 202448min

Send us Fan Mail 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 particul...

26 Helmi 20241h 9min

Send us Fan Mail 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...

11 Helmi 20241h 39min

Send us Fan Mail 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 co...

27 Tammi 20241h 7min

Send us Fan Mail 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 transl...

23 Joulu 20231h 20min

Send us Fan Mail 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 Sh...

14 Joulu 202352min

Send us Fan Mail 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 ti...

1 Joulu 202346min