The Knights Templar: The Trial and Suppression of the Order (with Steve Tibble)
Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is the second in a three part series on the Crusading military order of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, more commonly known as the Templa...
16 Apr 1h 7min
The Knights Templar, Part 1: the Templars in History (with Steve Tibble)
Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is the first of a two-part series on the notorious Christian military order, The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, more commonly known as th...
15 Mar 1h 7min
Knights, Samurai, and the Myth of Japanese Feudalism: A Conversation with Professor Stephen Morillo
Send us Fan Mail Until now, "'Tis But A Scratch: Fact & Fiction About the Middle Ages" has dealt with medieval Europe and the Middle East. In this episode, we branch out to a more global perspective b...
4 Mar 1h 8min
1066 And All That: The Significance of the Norman Conquest (with Dr. Jennifer Paxton), part 2
Send us Fan Mail It has been several months since I posted the first half of a two part series on the significance and consequences of the Norman Conquest with my good friend and colleague Dr. Jennife...
12 Feb 1h 27min
Episode 70: What we can learn about medieval people from their bones and teeth. A conversation with Professor Alison Beach
Send us Fan Mail And now for something completely different! In this episode, we are not going to be talking about kings or popes, crusades, wars, or political events. Instead, we will be examining th...
24 Jan 1h 5min
The First King of England: Æthelstan (with David Woodman)
Send us Fan Mail Ironically, the most famous date in Anglo-Saxon history is that of its demise, 1066, which is why when in 1930 W. C. Sellar, a former schoolmaster, and his classmate at Oxford, the hu...
16 Jan 1h
A Florentine Pilgrimage to Bethlehem and Jerusalem in 1384
Send us Fan Mail This is an addendum to my previous episode with Peter Konieczny. One of my listeners sent me an email asking why we never covered Frescobaldi's, Gucci's, and Sigoli's accounts of thei...
29 Des 202520min
Three Accounts of A Pilgrimage To Egypt and the Holy Land in 1384-5
Send us Fan Mail In the year 1384 a company of six wealthy merchants from Florence, each accompanied by a servant, went on a ten-month long pilgrimage to Mameluke Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. Upon ret...
23 Des 20251h 6min
