Fall of the Roman Republic, part 3: From Octavian to Augustus
Send us Fan Mail Yes, I know that Octavian IS Augustus, but this episode is about how Gaius Octavius became Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, and in doing so replaced the old Roman Republic with a milita...
23 Des 202448min
Fall of the Roman Republic: From Sulla's March on Rome to Caesar's Assassination
Send us Fan Mail This is the second of a three part series about the fall of the Roman Republic. My cohost for all three episodes is Dr. Jennifer Paxton of the Catholic University of America. We actua...
20 Des 20241h 25min
The Fall of the Roman Republic, Part 1: The Late Roman Republic in Theory and Practice
Send us Fan Mail For the fiftieth (!) episode of this podcast, I'm taking a few centuries detour from the Middle Ages to talk about the fall of the Roman Republic. In this episode, the first of a two ...
15 Des 20241h 12min
A medieval election
Send us Fan Mail I know. Just what everyone needed, an episode about an election. To take a break from reading and watching election postmortems, I decided to return to one of my favorite teaching tex...
11 Nov 202450min
Con games, scams, and deceits of the medieval Near East exposed: "The Book of Charlatans"
Send us Fan Mail This episode is devoted to a truly unique and pretty weird Arabic text, The Book of Charlatans by an obscure early thirteenth-century Arabic scholar, Jamal al-Din 'Abd al-Rahim al-Jaw...
19 Okt 202455min
Crusaders and Settlers in the Holy Land: Who Went and Why
Send us Fan Mail In this episode I talk with the distinguished historian of the crusades Dr. Steven Tibble about the motivations of crusaders and of those Europeans who settled in the Crusader states ...
3 Aug 20241h 4min
The Battle That Destroyed the Military Forces of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: Hattin (1187)
Send us Fan Mail On 3-4 July 1187 the Sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin enjoyed the greatest military victory of his career. The Battle of Hattin, a two-day battle fought along the road leading to the...
19 Jun 20241h 6min
Norway's highest-grossing film: Liv Ullmann's Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
Send us Fan Mail Yes, Kristin Lavransdatter is the highest-grossing Norwegian film of all time. That isn't as impressive as it might sound, as the movie only brought in $3.7 million in box office rece...
6 Jun 202423min
