The Saxon-Slavic Frontier
In this episode, we descend to the marshes and forests of the Saxon-Slavic Frontier east of the Elbe, to introduce the development Saxon society through the lens of the brutal campaigns launched back ...
21 Jul 202545min
Series 7: Renovatio Imperii Romanorum (911 - 1018 AD)
In this series, we will look at the incredible stories of Imperial rebirth, which defined the Ottonian founding of what would become the Holy Roman Empire, as well as the Golden Age of the Macedonian ...
14 Jul 202515min
Rise of the Rus
New episodes every Monday!Have a question or comment? Contact me at BetweentheSeas@zohomail.comSourcesIntro: Zachary Wheeler and Nathaniel Scarborough, "Hej, Sokoły" folk tuneOutro: Antonín Dvořák, Se...
7 Jul 202544min
Vikings and the Pagan Baltic
We continue the series on the 2nd Time of Invasions by looking at the Scandinavians and Northern Europe during the Viking Age. We will examine what caused this expulsion of men and material into the p...
30 Jun 202541min
The Magyar
In this episode, we finally introduce the looming threat to Carpathia which has book-ended several of our previous episodes - the Magyar. We trace their mysterious origins near the Ural Mountains, the...
23 Jun 202551min
Series 6: The 2nd Dark Age (892 - 955 AD)
In this series, we will see the aftermath of the disintegration of the Frankish Empire, through the eyes of its challengers within Inner Europe, namely the Magyar and the Pagans of the Baltic Coast (S...
16 Jun 202524min
Vlastimirovic Serbia and the First Bulgarian Empire
In this final episode of the Trial and Error Series on the 9th and early 10th centuries, we focus on two Balkan identities which are created in the tumultuous wars of the era: the Serbs and the Bulgar...
7 Apr 20251h 4min
Great Moravia
In this episode, we introduce the Rise and Fall of Great Moravia, a 9th century Slavic "Imperial Confederacy" which would attempt to unify several of the frontier slavic tribes of Pannonia and the Car...
31 Mar 202546min
