Pourquoi voyager au Moyen Âge ?

Vous allez pouvoir écouter ici dans quelques jours un entretien super intéressant avec Antonin Plarier. Dans cette émission, on a discuté ensemble du banditisme dans l’Algérie coloniale. Comment expliquer ce phénomène, à quoi ressemblait ce banditisme, et comment l’administration ...  عرض المزيد

Aujourd’hui, je vous raconte la légende japonaise de la théière-tanuki. Dans un temple reculé de la province de Joshiu, non loin de Tokyo, se trouve le temple de Morinji à Tatebayashi. C'est là que réside un moine sage et pieux, nommé Maître Hiroshi, gardien des mystères et des t ...  عرض المزيد

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 ...  عرض المزيد

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 ...