97 – Augustine and Gregory Make a Diocese
So last week we ended with Augustine converting the people of Kent to Christianity and AEthelberht coming out as Christian… was he converted by Augustine or had he already been converted? We just don’...
17 Sep 201326min
96 – The Conversion of King AEthelberht
In the last several episodes we’ve been speaking about religion. We’ve spoken about the paganism that existed on the island, the christians that lived on the island, the reasons why individuals and ru...
9 Sep 201320min
95 – Two Old Men and a Slave Boy
Ok, so lets leave Britain for this episode and head to Rome. I hear it’s nice this time of year. Actually, I hear it’s really hot this time of year. But it seems like everywhere is right now… so Rome ...
5 Aug 201320min
94 – Dark Age Beliefs
As we go forward in this series, what I hope you’re beginning to get a sense of from both the WelshCast and all the other shows focusing on the so called Dark Ages, is how fragmented life in Britain w...
29 Jul 20131h 11min
93 – Chapter Three: The Warriors of God
It has been nearly two hundred years since Rome withdrew from Britannia setting this small island at the edge of the world on a course that could not have been predicted. Over the generations, a new c...
22 Jul 20131min
92 – WelshCast Part Five: More People that Gildas Hated
Alright, so we have two more kings of Wales before we leave Gildas and his spittle flecked rantings. And something that you might notice as we go forward is that we don’t haven’t been provided a Tyran...
15 Jul 201344min
91 – WelshCast Part Four: Three Kings of Wales Who Really Annoyed Gildas
Today, we’re going to talk about some of the people who were really pissing Gildas off. People that drove him so batty that he just couldn’t contain his rage. And since Gildas was Welsh, he was predic...
9 Jul 201328min
90 – WelshCast Part Three: The Silent Treatment
As you probably remember from the main podcast, before we had the appearance of major Anglo Saxon kingdoms, there was an initial migration and invasion in the sub-Roman period, with famous Germanic le...
2 Jul 201321min
