Book Club: Summer Reading
Planning a summer vacation and looking for something fun to read? Patrick and Leah have you covered with a few suggestions.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...
25 Jul 201912min
The Italian Wars, Part 2
In our second episode on the Italian Wars, we explore how Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's vast territories ratcheted up the conflict from a dynastic squabble to a continent-spanning contest of great po...
18 Jul 201954min
Walls throughout History: An Interview with Professor David Frye
What creates civilization, in the most basic sense? According to Professor David Frye, who joins me this week, it's walls - Hadrian's Wall, the Great Wall of China, city walls, and thousands more over...
11 Jul 201939min
The Italian Wars, Part 1
The Italian Wars were the defining conflict of the sixteenth century, bridging the gap between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Today, we explore their origins in medieval dynastic infight...
4 Jul 201957min
Minisode: Military Revolutions
It's a concept! It's a feeling! It's... been a long time since we talked about it. We're throwing it back to 2017 and tracing the evolution of war in the 15th and 16th centuries.See Privacy Policy at ...
27 Jun 201918min
Why Bother with the Seventeenth Century? An Interview with Professor Keith Pluymers
Friend of the show Keith Pluymers returned for a great chat about fuel, environmental history, and why the seventeenth century is worth studying.You can listen to the back catalog of Tides of History,...
20 Jun 201944min
Condottieri: War for Profit in Renaissance Italy
In Renaissance Italy, war was simultaneously art, science, and big business, waged for profit and glory by hired contractors known as condottieri. Today, we follow one condottiere as he makes his way ...
13 Jun 201951min
Machiavelli's Laboratory: The Politics of Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Italy was a political minefield, where backstabbing dukes, ambitious republics, and disloyal mercenaries created a laboratory for political innovation. This environment produced profession...
6 Jun 201955min
