Pourquoi voyager au Moyen Âge ?

Aujourd’hui, direction l'Afrique à la découverte de l’espiègle Eshu. Dans les terres d’Afrique, au sud-ouest du Nigéria, on raconte l’histoire d’un dieu fourbe, aussi sournois qu’imprévisible. C’est Eshu le fauteur de trouble, celui que le peuple Yoruba a appris à apprécier à ses ...  Show more

Je vais jamais vous encourager à faire un truc immoral… Mais bon, c’est vrai que parfois on peut ressentir une pointe d’admiration pour des voleurs et des escrocs, lorsqu’ils font des trucs dingues, inattendus et brillants. Et aujourd’hui, je voulais vous parler d’un Portugais, d ...  Show more

If you are planning - or dreaming of - your next holiday, have you stopped to wonder whether our medieval counterparts did exactly the same thing? Why did people travel in the Middle Ages, and what was the experience like for them? Were there any similarities with travelling ...

Deception and trickery have always been a universal feature of warfare and the wars of the Middle Ages were no exception - from the Battle of Hastings to the “fake corpse ruse”. But how did Medieval mores justify deception during wars? Was cunning considered an admir ...

When you think of the Middle Ages what springs to mind? Medieval battles, warfare and general hardship? Certainly not fun. However while medieval Ireland was a violent place by any standard people were still able to enjoy themselves. In this episode I explore what our medieval an ...  Show more

Throughout history, there have been plenty of hugely destructive, catastrophic moments. And yet somehow the human race managed to live on until today. So how did people in the Medieval period find ways to survive, for example, a siege of their city, or a natural disaster, or p ...