78. Les Cathares

Le 23 juin 2026, la France fait entrer Marc Bloch au Panthéon.C'est la première fois qu'un historien y reçoit cet honneur.Mais qui était vraiment cet homme ?Un savant qui a bouleversé sa discipline.Un soldat décoré des deux guerres mondiales.Un résistant arrêté, torturé par les h ...  Show more

Explorons avec cet épisode l'essentiel du programme d'Histoire pour le Brevet des collèges. Je vous propose de parcourir les grandes périodes et événements clés de l'Histoire, depuis la Première Guerre mondiale jusqu'à nos jours. Il s’agit d’un survol de révision, si l’un ou l’au ...  Show more

Was the Catholic Church Europe’s first revolutionary group? How are the Cathars linked to the genesis of genocide? Where does the term crusade come from? Listen as Tom and Dominic discuss the real history around the mysterious group known as the Cathars. *The Rest Is History Liv ...  Show more

In the fourth century AD, the Christian faith exploded out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, converting the Emperor Constantine in the process. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion was deeply ingrained ...

The popes of Rome emerged from the humblest of beginnings. The first was a fisherman, charged with spreading the word of God under the watchful eye of a pagan Roman Empire. But just a few centuries later, the papacy had flourished into one of the wealthiest, most powerful inst ...

Christianity's inroads into the pagan north of England began with the marriage of Æthelburh of Kent to King Edwin of Northumbria. A condition of their marriage was Edwin's conversion to Christianity. But most of the things we know about this period come from the ...