145 – The Rise of King AEthelbald of Mercia

The first half of this episode is a combination of letting you know what is happening in the Heptarchy (basically, chaos unless you’re in Mercia) and it’s also setting the stage for the second half, which… I’m not going to lie to you… is going to get a little weird. But stick wit ...  عرض المزيد

This year for our Christmas special, I thought I would give you an idea of what Christmas was like for some of the people in Middle Ages Britain. Now, Christmas in the middle ages was quite different from our modern experience in many ways. And like with everything else, it would ...  عرض المزيد

A suspected royal poisoning. A bloody rebellion in Sicily. A dying king fleeing across the mountains. The stage is set for the reign of one of the coldest rulers from all of the Middle Ages: Philip the Fair.  A Sony Music Entertainment production.  Find more great podcasts ...  عرض المزيد

In the second half of the 1400s, there is written evidence of word play and new word formations within English. These new terms included words for the sounds made by animals and collective nouns for various groups of animals and people. This was also a period when the Plantagenet ...  عرض المزيد

The end of the war is just one battle away, but even a victory can’t dissolve the heaviness that hangs over King Arthur. The seductive Lady Morgause offers her friendship... and more. Merlin interprets a terrible dream. And the Knight of the Fountain chases glory. The decisions o ...  عرض المزيد

Back in the early 15th century, as the English King, Henry VI, tried to assert his supremacy in the Kingdom of France, an unlikely teenage hero came to the aid of her nation.

A king-maker, seemingly blessed with the gift of prophecy whom many in France also believed had ...