hello patrons! thank you once again for subscribing. your second patron-exclusive episode for October is our much-delayed discussion of the Great Stirrup Controversy, which argues that feudalism, vassalage, and serfdom are all the result of the invention of the stirrup and its adoption by the Fra...
2021-10-28 13:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post
hello patrons! as promised, here is part 2 of our review of The Green Knight. in this episode, we talk about what the film got right and what it got wrong about Medieval life and then do some comparing and contrasting between the film and its source material: the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and ...
2021-10-15 13:51:54 +0000 UTC View Postjust wanted to write a quick update to say that we're postponing the next Patreon ep on the Great Stirrup Controversy to next week (week of October 11). unfortunately, Eleanor is feeling a bit under the weather and we can't make 2 episodes work this week. we will be publishing a regular episode t...
2021-10-07 13:19:32 +0000 UTC View Posthello patrons! thanks once again for supporting the show, it means a lot to us. in this new, patron-exclusive episode, we discuss the conspiracy theory known as the Phantom Time Hypothesis, which was first introduced in 1991 by German writer Heribert Illig. the PTH holds that 3 different rules: O...
2021-09-24 14:27:11 +0000 UTC View PostHello, friends! Thank you so much for subscribing and helping the show out! Just wanted to post an update here for you, our lovely patrons! Our newest regular episode on Food in the Middle Ages will be released tomorrow, Sept 14, then the week after, we'll post another regular episode and our nex...
2021-09-13 19:34:45 +0000 UTC View PostThanks so much for subscribing! We decided to do an episode on Afghanistan, the Timurid Empire, and the Graveyard of Empires after receiving a question about it given all the recent upheaval going on in Afghanistan. So check it out!
2021-08-26 13:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostWe are back to cover a subject very close to Eleanor's heart: the Dark Ages. Or, more correctly, how the Dark Ages didn't actually happen, at least not as popularly conceived. check it out as we try to break some misconceptions about the Dark Ages and see if there's any truth to the idea at all.<...
2021-08-12 14:15:36 +0000 UTC View Posthello patrons! thanks so much for your support! this is just a brief update to say that the next Patron-exclusive episode, the Dark Ages, will be out next week! apologies that it has taken some time to get a new bonus episode out but things have been extremely hectic the last couple of months for...
2021-08-02 14:25:22 +0000 UTC View Postwe hit 100 patrons late last night, thank you so much! it means a lot to us that you enjoy and support the show! as promised, now that we're at 100 patrons, we will be doing 2 patron-exclusive episodes each month. so get ready and thanks again!
2021-07-19 18:59:26 +0000 UTC View PostFriends! Apologies that there hasn't been much activity on the page recently. I (Luke) have been dealing with a sick kid and/or been sick myself for the last 2 weeks. We're both fine now, just getting back into the swing of things. Anyway, please use this thread for discussions on our latest epis...
2021-07-09 18:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
hello Patrons! our newest patron-exclusive episode is now available. this time, we finish up our miniseries on the falls of the Roman Empire by discussing the Fall of Constantinople and the world-changing consequences that flow from it. there's a map of Constantinople attached so you can better v...
2021-06-26 14:12:41 +0000 UTC View Posthey everyone! here's a thread to talk about the new episode we just released this morning. feel free to discuss, ask questions, etc. and remember, our next Patron-exclusive episode on the Fall of Constantinople is coming next week.
hello you wonderful Patrons! thank you again for subscribing! we published our 19th episode this morning and its our final one in our series on the peasants. please use this thread to discuss the episode, leave questions or comments, and tell us what you thought.
thanks again
hello patrons! this is the open thread for Ep 18, which was published this morning. feel free to leave any comments or questions that you might have about the episode here or just leave your general thoughts. either way, thanks again for subscribing and we hope you enjoy it.
Hello, lovely patrons! Thanks so much for supporting the show! Episode 17 on Medieval peasant revolts has been published. Used this thread for general discussion and questions about the episode. Thanks again.
hello patrons! our 3rd, patron-exclusive episode is now live. in our first Patreon episode, we talked about when the Roman Empire fell but this time it's all about deconstructing why the Roman Empire fell and making fun of Edward Gibbon for being a confusing weirdo. Also, you get to hear Lu...
2021-05-21 12:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostGood news, our next normal episode will be published on Wednesday morning. But after we finish our series on peasants in a few episodes, we're going to move away from Western Europe and onto other parts of the world because we don't want to be too focused on one tiny area and we promised that Pat...
2021-05-18 15:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post
hello Patrons! we published our 15th episode on Enclosure and the peasantry earlier today. please use this thread for comments, questions, or random asides about the episode. and don't worry, we will get to both questions asked in the Ep. 14 discussion thread in the next episode where they will f...
2021-05-12 22:52:40 +0000 UTC View Posthello patrons! this is a discussion thread for our newest regular episode, which is all about the peasantry. feel free to discuss stuff from the episode, post questions if you have them, or just talk about whatever's on your mind!
additional stuff: as you can see, we are currently in a seri...
2021-05-06 13:56:29 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patrons! Our newest Patreon-exclusive episode is live and it's an interview with Dr. Patrick Wyman who is a historian, podcaster, and author of the forthcoming book, The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World. The interview covers a number of interesting topic...
2021-05-03 11:48:04 +0000 UTC View Posthello, everyone! we're now over 20 patrons and that's so awesome, thanks to everyone for subscribing! yesterday, we released our 12th general episode, Let's Talk About Sex Again, for everyone and we wanted to open a thread for Patrons to discuss the episode. we'd love to hear your thoughts, comme...
2021-04-22 13:41:08 +0000 UTC View Postthank you so much to everyone for subscribing! it means so much to both of us and really does help keep the show going in the future. now, it's time for you, our amazing Patrons to submit questions for Eleanor and I to answer at the beginning of each, regular episode. and you don't have to limit ...
2021-04-16 13:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe're so excited to publish our first Patron-only episode of We're Not So Different and it's all about that age-old question that has plagued historians for ages: when did Rome Fall? Was it 476? How about 1453? What about 1906? Or maybe it's still around to this very day? Listen to hear us discus...
2021-04-15 11:36:11 +0000 UTC View Post