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Arthuriana 3: Pre-Galfridian Stories
We're Not So Different - October 19, 2023 14:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsour series on Arthuriana continues as we move past introductions and start talking about the stories that make up the early part of the Arthurian canon, known as the pre-Galfridian (aka before Geoffrey of Monmouth). these stories survive to us in Welsh and Latin from roughly 600 to 1135 AD and sh...
Arthuriana 2: The Once and Future King
We're Not So Different - October 11, 2023 14:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe're back with more talk of Arthurian legend. this time, we continue to trace the canon into the Modern era, from its nadir in the Early Modern period to its resurrection in the 19th century by Lord Alfred Tennyson and finally to taking its place as a foundational myth in the English-speaking wo...
Arthuriana 1: Building a Medieval Canon
We're Not So Different - October 05, 2023 11:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, we're finally doing that series on King Arthur and the Arthurian Legends you've all been asking for. Luke and Eleanor start the series by talking about Arthur and the legends more broadly before discussing how a bunch of people in the Middle Ages built a cohesive, narrative canon with defi...
How Often do You Think About the Roman Empire?
We're Not So Different - September 27, 2023 14:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsLuke and Eleanor are back to talk about the meme that's been making the rounds for the past few weeks: How often do you think about the Roman Empire? we discuss how often we actually think about Rome and its successor states before moving on to talk about why this meme became so popular, why guys...
Fabliau feat Kleio Pethainou
We're Not So Different - September 20, 2023 13:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingstoday, we have on Kleio Pethainou, a doctoral candidate at the Univ. of Edinburgh, to talk about Medieval humor and the lesser-known but still awesome tradition of Fabliau. Fabliau are bawdy, humorous stories, often filled with some level of social commentary, that started out in France in the Hi...
Medieval Failsons: The Idiot Boys of Eleanor of Aquitaine
We're Not So Different - September 13, 2023 14:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingslast time, we talked about two famous Medieval women, Hildegard of Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine. they were both titans in their own respects but there's a small issue with Eleanor's legacy and that's her 4 idiot failsons. while Eleanor's daughters were apparently quite proficient, her 4 sons w...
Medieval Women: Hildegard of Bingen & Eleanor of Aquitaine
We're Not So Different - September 06, 2023 13:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsin 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 felt in different ways, they were each monumentally important. Hildegard was a polymath who made her mark in the realms...
Medieval What If 2: Wrong Kid Died
We're Not So Different - September 01, 2023 23:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe'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 if Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother, hadn't died early? well, there's only one way to find out...
Medieval What If...
We're Not So Different - August 23, 2023 13:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, 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 series of historical events, change one small detail, and see how things would've been different, if at all. What if the Moo...
Medieval Fail Sons: Wenceslas IV & Sigismund
We're Not So Different - August 16, 2023 13:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsthis time, we embark on another occasional series we're going to do from time-to-time going forward and this one is all about Medieval fail sons who squandered the fortunes, power, and goodwill engendered by their parents and were just general fuck-ups. Today, we're talking about the two fail son...
Courtly Entertainers
We're Not So Different - August 11, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsin this episode, we discuss the entertainment that you would see at a Medieval court: troubadours, dancers, jugglers, and, of course, jesters. we take a look at these professions, what their performances were like, how and why they were hired, and more. then we talk about the unique position held...
Markets and Market Towns
We're Not So Different - August 02, 2023 13:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe'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 could you buy there? who went to market? how were they run? were Medieval goth kids hanging out at the market like they do at the mall? we will discuss all of that plus t...
Medieval Women: The Two Mary's
We're Not So Different - July 26, 2023 13:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsin this episode, we start an intermittently recurring series where we explore the lives and times of two famous Medieval women. and while these will usually be about women who lived and rose to prominence during the Middle Ages, we kinda had to start with two women from an earlier era who were no...
Medieval Mining
We're Not So Different - July 19, 2023 13:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe 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 but how does all that metal get out of the ground? who's doing the work to dig it out? what mining technology and...
Ye Olde Patron Mailbag
We're Not So Different - July 12, 2023 13:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsit's time for another mailbag episode from our backlog of questions from our patrons. since we usually answer one question an episode, we can't possibly get to all the questions, so we do these mailbags from time-to-time. in this one, we cover a wide range of topics from the Brother Cadfael myste...
Petro States for Wool
We're Not So Different - July 06, 2023 13:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe 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, and the cities of the Hanseatic League into petro states for wool. we look at how it was produced, what it meant, why so...
Wars of the Roses 5: One Rose to Rule Them All
We're Not So Different - June 28, 2023 11:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsSo 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 Picquigny, which ended the Hundred Years Wars after 138 years, then we move onto the death of Edward IV, the villainy of Richard III, Henry ...
Wars of the Roses 4: The Yorkists Reign
We're Not So Different - June 24, 2023 13:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsbetter 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 external enemies: Warwick the Kingmaker is killed, the Lancastrian royal line is extinguished, and they even broker a treaty with...
Wars of the Roses 3 - Royal Hot Potato
We're Not So Different - June 14, 2023 13:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe're back with more wars and more roses. this time, the Yorkists finally take control of the conflict, depose the old king, and assume full regal power over the realm. they win some battles, the old king gets passed around like a royal hot potato, and Edward York finally makes good on his dad's ...
Wars of the Roses 2: Loveday
We're Not So Different - June 07, 2023 14:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe'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 flourishes of English chivalry, King Henry VI is captured repeatedly, two battles that last less than thirty minutes e...
Wars of the Roses 1: Bloodlines
We're Not So Different - June 01, 2023 13:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe 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 England to become the globe-bestriding colossus we know and hate. we talk all about the Plantagenets, the Lancastrians, the Yorkists, and even a c...
Hundred Years War 6: Revenge of the French
We're Not So Different - May 24, 2023 15:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe'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, including the crushing victory at Agincourt and taking over huge swaths of French territory, even Paris itself. but then we see the emergenc...
Hundred Years War 5: A Not-So-Quiet Peace
We're Not So Different - May 18, 2023 13:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe're back and the Hundred Years War continues on, kinda. following the Truce at Leulinghem, there is a 26-year-long peace between England and France though it wasn't because their differences had been resolved, they just couldn't continue fighting each other at the time due to domestic troubles....
Hundred Years War 4: French Revanchism
We're Not So Different - May 10, 2023 13:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe'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 went pear-shaped for the English. they backed the wrong sides in proxy wars, pissed off the French nobles who sided with them, and lost a series ...
Hundred Years War 3: Upjumped Englishmen
We're Not So Different - May 03, 2023 13:25 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe'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 were able to get huge wins during the early part of the war and how they somehow still managed to field armies large enough to do battle w...
Hundred Years War 2: War Were Declared
We're Not So Different - April 26, 2023 14:15 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe're back with more Hundred Years War action! Luke and Eleanor do a bit more introduction for the conflict, including longbow chat, then talk about the very early years of the war and how the English navy got its first big win in history. also there's even more insanely-Medieval proxy wars!
Hundred Years War 1: Where to Begin?
We're Not So Different - April 20, 2023 13:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsin this episode, Luke and Eleanor finally begin a series on the Hundred Years War between France and England but before we can get into the war itself, there's a lot to be introduced. we breakdown the numerous, long-standing issues that led to war such as: multiple French dynastic crises, the ove...
The Medieval Microcosm
We're Not So Different - April 14, 2023 14:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsin this episode, Luke and Eleanor look at the Medieval human body as the microcosm and the idea that a structural similarity exists between it and the macrocosm that is the universe. this touches on subjects from philosophy, to religion, to astrology, and even alchemy, so check it out! if you li...
The Medieval Universe
We're Not So Different - April 05, 2023 14:51 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsin this one, Luke and Eleanor talk about how Medieval Christians viewed the cosmology and cosmogony of our universe. we discuss so many celestial spheres, how they retconned Aristotle's geocentric model to make it work with the Biblical universe, and why the Earth was the center of everything. en...
Medieval Maps
We're Not So Different - March 29, 2023 15:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe're talking maps, folks! Luke and Eleanor are here to talk all about humanity's long obsession with maps and cartography, the Medieval world maps known as Mappa Mundi, the stories they tell, and even where you might be able to find dragons or other scary sea monsters. enjoy!
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