Medieval Video Games with Blair Apgar
Video games! They’re fun. We discuss, and mention some of our favorites set in/ around the Middle Ages. Plus they’re really great for showing how history works. Trust us, we’re doctors.GuestBlair Apga...
22 Apr 49min
Crossover Episode with “Reckoning” (the film “Kingdom of Heaven”)
This is an older episode from the “Reckoning with Jason Herbert” back catalog, but we all talk about the Ridley Scott epic (?) “Kingdom of Heaven.” Matt yells about water, among other things. GuestJas...
15 Apr 1h 21min
Medieval Comics with Natalie Hopwood
This episode we talk about Norse sagas and medieval comics. Jack Kirby was an interesting guy - loved norse stuff and hated Nazis. Plus dragons. We talk about medieval dragons.GuestsNatalie Hopwood is...
8 Apr 53min
The “Dark Ages” with David M. Perry and Eleanor Janega
Ok, we get yell-y about the “Dark Ages” in this episode. But first David and Matt make a shocking admission on this April 1, 2026 episode. Then we talk about other things. GuestsDr Eleanor Janega is a...
1 Apr 1h 13min
Medieval America (Cahokia) with Sarah Baires
North America? Of course you did. We have Dr. Sarah Baires about that, specifically Cahokia - a city of about 20,000 people outside (modern) St. Louis that was bigger than Rome was at the same time. G...
25 Mars 52min
Medieval Printing (and why LLMs are crap) with Sonja Drimmer
Did you know that the earliest printing press is from the 13th century? And that the idea of print in the Middle Ages was pervasive and very different from ours? Plus, so-called “AI” is bad for educat...
18 Mars 59min
The Voynich Manuscript with Lisa Fagin Davis
Aliens! Not really. In this episode, Prof. Gabriele and Lisa talk about the travels of medieval manuscripts (including why there are so many right here in the USA - only Alaska doesn’t have any!), but...
11 Mars 57min
Russian Medievalisms with Eugene Smelyansky
This episode ranges over 19th-century history and why they thought of the Middle Ages as vibes, to the vast varieties of experiences of minority communities in medieval Europe, to how Putin uses the M...
4 Mars 51min
