Balthild of Francia with Isabel Moreira
This year, we’ve spent some good quality time with early medieval queens, digging into their mysterious and spectacular lives and reigns. And when it comes to the spectacular, it’s hard to compete wit...
6 Nov 202554min
Medieval Vampire Epidemics with John Blair
As the nights get longer and spookier, there's one thing that's guaranteed to make our hair stand on end: corpses that just won’t stay dead. Especially the ones interested in eating us. This week, Dan...
30 Okt 202549min
The Two Hundred Years' War with Michael Livingston
Although a lot of medieval history is murky, the whys and wherefores – not to mention the timeline – of the Hundred Years’ War are firmly nailed down. Or are they? This week, Danièle speaks with Micha...
23 Okt 202544min
Medieval Animal Names with Ben Parsons
Since time immemorial, we've given animals names, from the sublime to the utterly ridiculous. For everyone who’s looked at a puppy or a kitten and wondered what it should be called – and then called i...
16 Okt 202544min
Medieval Wolves with Elizabeth Marshall
In the dark forests of the Middle Ages – and the modern stories we tell about it – lurks a powerful, beautiful predator. Sometimes big and bad, sometimes a figure of admiration, the medieval wolf was ...
9 Okt 202539min
A New History of the Fourteenth Century with Helen Carr
The fourteenth-century is one of the most turbulent periods in European history. Famine, war, plague, royal depositions – you name it, this century’s got it. This week, Danièle speaks with Helen Carr ...
2 Okt 202537min
Medieval Wills and Testaments with Robert A. Wood
One of the difficult truths of life in the Middle Ages is that death was never far away. While the vast majority of medieval people owned far fewer possessions than we do today, they were just as conc...
25 Sep 202528min
Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation with Sara Butler
Everyone loves a good medieval whodunit, but how did real people investigate homicides in the Middle Ages? What did they look for? And how did they decide if a person’s death was an unfortunate accide...
18 Sep 202549min
