À quoi ressemblaient les banquets au Moyen Âg...

J’ai reçu récemment dans un nouvel entretien historique Cédric Ludwikowski, qui est un spécialiste des beffrois, et qui a activement participé à l’inscription des beffrois du nord de la France au Patrimoine Mondial de l’UNESCO. Dans cette émission, on a autant pu aborder l’histoi ...  Show more

Quel est le point commun entre Alexandre le Grand, Néron, Louis XIV et Thomas Pesquet ? Eh bien, ils ont tous eu des professeurs qui les ont marqués d’une façon ou d’une autre ! Parce que oui, vous vous doutez que “enseigner”, en soi, ça date pas de 1881 et de Jules Ferry : dans ...  Show more

Preparing, serving and sharing food has always played a critical role in human history. But what did people in the Middle Ages like to eat and what did their food say about their social status? What was the haute cuisine of medieval Bagdad or Moorish Spain? Victoria Flexn ...

A Roman emperor terrifies his guests with a macabre dining room display. At a feast in Norway, drunk Vikings engage in a rap battle. A teenage Alexander the Great makes a scene at his dad’s dinner party. And partygoers in Victorian London get up close and personal with an unusual ...  Show more

In this episode, we explore words associated with mealtime in the Middle Ages. We also examine the important role of bread in medieval meals and impact of bread-related terms on the English language. Finally, we look at the important role of table manners as outlined in an early ...  Show more

From brawn to plum pottage, Annie Gray takes us back to the raucous world of festive feasting in the medieval and Tudor eras. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, for the first episode in our new mini-series on Christmas food through history, she also touches on subversive merrymaking, s ...  Show more