222. Early Modern Poverty, the Worst of it.
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Quoting Dante: “The disease of the starving, I mean hunger, is a pitiable affliction. Of human calamities hunger is certainly supreme. ...
26 Elo 39min
221. Changes in the Life of a Knight
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are trying to take a look at the life of a knight. A look at the life in full, stripped of idealizations and self righteous outrage o...
12 Elo 38min
220. The Civilizing Process; The Knights, Aggression and Torture
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are going to start with trivialities, then get into some serious differences between now and the medieval psyche. Around gross stuff,...
29 Heinä 1h 3min
219. The Civilizing Process
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. It was probably while the brutal siege in Vienna went on, and the little boys and girls of the region were being sold into slavery, after...
22 Heinä 38min
218. Erasmus and the Siege of Vienna
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. There are two stories here, their opposition is part of a theme. Erasmus, the great Erasmus , Erasmus of Rotterdam was even more a prod...
8 Heinä 28min
217. How to Tear the West Apart
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A miner’s son, decided one day, to nail 95 thesis to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg in the year of our lord 1517. It seems ...
1 Heinä 41min
215. Exploring the Causes of the Miracle
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This episode is just a little introduction to the theories of the causes of the industrial revolution as of right now. We look at the Sh...
10 Kesä 53min
