109 – Edwin’s Ambitions

Ok, last episode, we jumped forward a little to take the story of East Anglia to the point where Sigebehrt took the throne… but lets go back about 3 years… to 628 (ish)… and look at what is going on in Mercia. Mercia, the Midland kingdom, has been a bit of a backwater in our […] ...  Show more

That’s something I’ve heard my entire life. When I was younger and picked on at school my father would sometimes say “Don’t worry, Jamie, what goes around comes around.” The problem with that bit of advice is that it requires a sense of fairness in the world that isn’t always the ...  Show more

King Henry VIII famously ran into a world of problems trying to get out of his numerous marriages. And interestingly, we can find a similar story of royal marital strife all the way back in the ninth-century - during the reign of Lothar II. When this Carolingian ruler tried to di ...  Show more

Send a textActs 18:18-23After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow. And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himse ...  Show more

A partir de 1517, le protestantisme se développe en France. Rapidement le nombre de protestants augmente ; beaucoup de nobles se convertissent et forment un parti puissant. Et le catholicisme majoritaire se sent concurrencé. La rivalité débouche sur la guerre et le massacre de la ...  Show more

Faites un don et recevez un cadeau :  http://don.storiavoce.com/ Dans l'Angleterre du XVIe siècle, Henri VIII, héritier des Tudor, règne en maître sur son royaume comme sur sa vie maritale. Il annule son premier mariage avec Catherine d’Aragon, fautive de n’avoir pas engendré un h ...  Show more