patrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answered a question from Buddy Dude. the final episode of the Dante's Inferno will drop this Friday, so get ready for that!
last time, we talked about two famous Medieval women, Hildegard of Bingen and Eleanor of Aquit...
2023-09-13 14:15:59 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode, enjoy! we answered a question from Ellen.
in this one, we revisit our occasional series on the lives of prominent Medieval women as we discuss Hildegard of Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine. though they made their impacts f...
2023-09-06 13:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here's the ad-free version of this week's episode, we answered a question from A Guy in PA.
we're back for another episode off Medieval what if scenarios. it's late, we all know it's late, it's fine. What if the Norman Invasion failed? What if Constantinople held out in 1453? What ...
2023-09-01 23:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons, we are terribly sorry but there will only be one bonus episode this month (the Inferno episode we published a couple weeks back). The hurricane in the Gulf closing schools and a bit of sickness mean we won't be able to do a second one for August. We tried multiple times this week to get ...
2023-08-31 19:52:16 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, here's your ad-free regular episode for the week. we answered a question from x Guava Smoothie x on this one.
folks, today we move out of the realm of actual history and into the realm of alternative history as we take a look at some Medieval "what if..." scenarios. We go through a...
2023-08-23 13:39:44 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, this is your first bonus episode of the month, please enjoy!
Luke and Eleanor get to the penultimate entry in the book club series on Dante's Inferno. we finally finish up Circle Eight by meeting more fraudulent sinners and Dante ramps everything up, trying to outdo his heroes, wri...
2023-08-18 18:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post
hello, patrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. our next bonus on Dante's Inferno will be out Friday afternoon EST. we answered a question from Drew Varney the Vampire
this time, we embark on another occasional series we're going to do from time-to-time going fo...
2023-08-16 13:36:37 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer a question from Buddy Dude and took the episode topic from a suggestion by Arky. there will be no bonus episode this week but the next installment of our series on Dante's Inferno will be out next Friday.
in thi...
2023-08-11 13:55:22 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer a question from Cristina and took the topic from a suggestion by mpreg tamerlane.
we're back to talk about a huge facet of Medieval life: going to the market. what were they like? what was a market town? what cou...
2023-08-02 13:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post
hello, patrons, here's your second bonus episode for July 2023. as you know by now, we had planned to begin a series on season 1 of Star Wars: Andor. however, with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes ongoing and Andor being a struck production, we received word that the unions have asked podcasters not...
2023-07-28 13:13:40 +0000 UTC View Posthello, patrons, this is your ad-free regular episode for the week. on Friday, a new bonus episode will drop and it's about Star Wars and the TV show Andor.
in this episode, we start an intermittently recurring series where we explore the lives and times of two famous Medieval women. and whi...
2023-07-26 13:35:07 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here is your ad-free regular episode for the week. we answered a question from Long Skate Death.
we are back and we're talking Medieval mining. we often discuss the elaborate jewels and metals used for ostentatious royal displays and the iron weapons shaped by blacksmiths for war b...
2023-07-19 13:46:19 +0000 UTC View Post
we're back with part 5 of our book club series on Dante's Inferno. we pick back up in Circle Eight where the sinners who committed fraud stay for all eternity divided into ten narrow ditches situated like the seating at an amphitheater or open-air stadium. today, we get through the first six of t...
2023-07-14 12:23:26 +0000 UTC View Posthello, patrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. it's a mailbag so we answered a bunch of your questions that we hadn't gotten around to yet.
it's time for another mailbag episode from our backlog of questions from our patrons. since we usually answer one question...
2023-07-12 13:26:47 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answered a question from Jas the Texican
we are back and this time we're doing a deep dive into Medieval wool production and how it undergirded the economies of much of Europe and turned places like England, Flanders, a...
2023-07-06 13:27:07 +0000 UTC View Post
hello, patrons, here's your second bonus episode for June 2023, please enjoy! since we are terminally online creatures of the zeitgeist, we talked about the whole Titanic submarine disaster. we do a deep dive into the lore surrounding the sub's destruction and the hubris that leads someone to do ...
2023-06-30 13:16:33 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode, enjoy! we answer a question from Shark Week in this one.
So we finally come to the end of our series on the Wars of the Roses and technically the Hundred Years War too. We conclude both by discussing the Treaty of Picquig...
2023-06-28 11:22:37 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. enjoy!
we answered a question from The Lemonduck
better late than never, huh? we're back with part 4 of our series on The Wars of the Roses and this time it's the Yorkists turn to take full control and dash all their...
2023-06-24 13:18:37 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, thank you once again for subscribing and supporting the show, we really appreciate it! in this bonus episode, we continue our journey through Hell with the 4th part of our book club series on Dante's Inferno. this time, we traverse the horrors of Circle Seven, which includes three rings ...
2023-06-16 11:04:04 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, please enjoy your ad-free edition of this week's regular episode. the next bonus episode will be out this Friday, it's part 4 of the book club series on Dante's Inferno.
this week we answer a question from David.
we're back with more wars and more roses. this time, the Yorkis...
2023-06-14 13:26:50 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's episode.
we answered a question from A Guy From PA
we're back continuing the series on the Wars of the Roses and this time we take a look at the early years. we've got the seesaw battle between Lancastrians and Yorkists, the last fl...
2023-06-07 14:08:05 +0000 UTC View Posthello patrons, here's your second bonus episode of May. since we just started a series on the Wars of the Roses, we thought it might be nice to do some comparisons between the real people and events from the Wars of the Roses that inspired George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy serie...
2023-06-02 11:27:22 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. please note that our next bonus episode will be out on Friday, June 2.
we pick up right where we left off in our Hundred Years War series as we introduce the Wars of the Roses, the dynastic conflict that paved the way for...
2023-06-01 13:52:43 +0000 UTC View Posthello, patrons, this is your ad-free version for this week's regular episode.
we answer a question from September Falconer.
we're back with the final episode of our series on the Hundred Years War. we talk about the English dominance in the early stages of the Lancastrian period...
2023-05-24 15:52:59 +0000 UTC View Post
we're back in Hell and you're coming with us. in part 3 of the book club series on Dante's Inferno, Luke and Eleanor check out circles 3-6, make it through the Gates of Dis with a little divine intervention, and wonder what Dante had against Epicurus.
please excuse the brief audio iss...
2023-05-19 18:05:17 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode, enjoy! please note that our next bonus episode, part 3 of the Dante's Inferno series, will release tomorrow.
we answer a question from Luul in this one.
we're back and the Hundred Years War continues on, kinda. &nbs...
2023-05-18 13:29:48 +0000 UTC View Post
hello, patrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode.
we answered a question from Laura in this one.
we're back! well, the English had their fun and won some big victories and even took a ton of French land in the Treaty of Bretigny but then everything wen...
2023-05-10 13:34:23 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, here is the ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer a question from Weird Guy in this one, check it out.
we're back with another installment of our series on the Hundred Years War. this time, Luke and Eleanor discuss how the English from their backwater sheepfold ...
2023-05-03 13:21:29 +0000 UTC View Posthello patrons, here's your second bonus episode for April! this time, Luke and Eleanor step out of the medieval era and do another current events episode. first, there's talk of what's happening on twitter with the blue checks being removed and then returned and what it all means. don't care abou...
2023-04-28 11:11:30 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. please note that the next bonus episode will be released on Friday, it's another current events type deal, you'll love it.
this week's question came from Lex on the Discord
we're back with more Hundred Years War act...
2023-04-26 14:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post