Dearest patrons, this is your ad-free regular episode. No question this time since we had a guest.
This week, we welcome Dr. Bradley Onishi, co-host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast, onto the show as part of our series on proto-nationalism in the Middle Ages. As we promised earlier this month, we had some guests line...
2024-01-31 17:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here is your second bonus episode of January and the third in our TV club series on Andor, enjoy! in this episode of Andor, we cover the second three episode arc of season one, in which our protagonist Cassian Andor takes on the roll of Young Stalin, leading a group of rebels on a romanticized version of the real life 1907 Tiflis bank r...
2024-01-26 15:39:45 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer questions from Mathew64 and Gaffsey in this one. enjoy!
this time, we return to our occasional series on Medieval women, where we look at the lives and times of ladies who were able to rise to positions of power and esteem despite the extremely patriarchal natur...
2024-01-24 15:29:53 +0000 UTC View Post
hello patrons, here is your first bonus episode for the month of January 2024! as we do fairy regularly, we're talk some current events or at least things we're currently thinking about. first, there's a cold open about a tunnel under New York City, then Eleanor discusses the ongoing British Post Office scandal that has ruined the lives of thous...
2024-01-19 15:21:04 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer questions from Hipster Wizard and Gaffsey in this one.
150th regular episode woooo! this time, we continue our miniseries on what we're calling Proto-nationalism in the Middle Ages by talking about two very big materialist reasons why they couldn't really have ...
2024-01-18 15:14:08 +0000 UTC View Posthello, patrons, this is your weekly ad-free version of the regular episode. we answered questions from dogspotter and Paul in this one.
nationalism is, unfortunately, once again on the rise in the modern day and while you might think that it has very little to do with the Middle Ages, you'd be wrong. because while the nationalism we see to...
2024-01-11 15:33:05 +0000 UTC View Posthello patrons, here's your first ad-free regular episode of 2024. we answer 2 questions: one from I Would Whack 500 Moles and the other from A Bag of Lobsters. it's our first episode of the new year but we're just not ready to move on quite yet, so we're taking a look back at 2023 and then taking a little peak ahead into 2024. we talk about Medi...
2024-01-04 14:25:04 +0000 UTC View Posthey patrons, you've already heard this episode on the bonus feed but I wanted to make sure we include all regular episodes in here for the sake of completeness. so yeah, this is just the unlocked version of our first episode on Dante's Inferno from March 2023. we will be back next year with more great bonus content for you!
thanks so much ...
2023-12-27 14:38:18 +0000 UTC View Post
hello lovely patrons, we hope you're having a happy holiday season. this is your second bonus episode for December 2023 and it's the second episode in our TV club series on Star Wars: Andor. in this one, we focus on the first three-episode arc of the show, in which we meet some of our main characters and we begin to follow the journey o...
2023-12-22 14:14:02 +0000 UTC View Posthello patrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. as a reminder, the bonus episode, the second in our series on Andor, will be out this Friday for your holiday listening enjoyment.
folks, it's the holidays and so we decided to post some prompts on twitter and bluesky and answer some questions about history, life, a...
2023-12-20 15:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post
hello patrons, here is your first bonus episode for December 2023. in this one, Luke and Eleanor do another current events episode talking about recent news or whatever's been on their minds. first, Eleanor talks about the current sorry state of the English government and English politics generally, then Luke discusses Godzilla Minus One, Oppenh...
2023-12-15 14:54:40 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. since this is an interview, we don't have a question.
folks, we've got podcaster, historian, dad-aficionado, and friend of the show Patrick Wyman back on the show to talk about dad culture, what it means to be a dad as opposed to just a father, Medieval dads, dad-coded b...
2023-12-13 14:58:36 +0000 UTC View Post
patrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode.
this time, we take a dive into the backlog of questions from our patrons and answer a few of them. we tackle everything from how to explain the Middle Ages to a 5 year old, to how bad was Henry VIII really to Eleanor Rykener and even who was the worst person in the Middl...
2023-12-06 15:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post
hello patrons, we're back with your second bonus episode for the month of November! and this time, we're finally jumping into Star Wars and doing a series on Andor, the Disney+ streaming show, created by Ton Gilroy and starring Diego Luna. the first season of Andor released in 2022 and it attempts to inject some materialism into Star Wars ...
2023-12-01 15:29:57 +0000 UTC View Postbeloved patrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer a question from Steph in this one.
as you may have heard, the Princes in the Tower are in the news again, 540 years after their supposed deaths. recently, Philippa Langley, who famously help find Richard III's body in a parking lot back in 2012, hosted ...
2023-11-30 16:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post
hello, patrons, happy thanksgiving! here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answered a question from Drekisdottir in this one.
folks, we're finally doing a review of Ridley Scott's 2021 Medieval history film, The Last Duel, a film that asks the question: what if Ridley Scott just didn't do all the stuff he's known fo...
2023-11-22 12:47:13 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's episode. it's an interview so we didn't answer any questions but we will get back to it next time.
folks, in this episode we brought in a special guest and friend of the show, Phoebe Roy, co-host of the Ten Thousand Posts and Masters of Our Domain podcasts, to talk with us about depiction...
2023-11-15 15:00:51 +0000 UTC View Post
hello patrons, here is your first bonus episode for the month of November and your 50th bonus episode overall! we made it to another milestone all thanks to yall!
in this one, we finish up our review of season 1 of Castlevania: Nocturne by going through the last 4 episodes. this sees us tackle such topics as the historical person of Erzseb...
2023-11-10 13:29:52 +0000 UTC View Postlovely patrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answered a question from Steph on this one. the second part of our review of Castlevania Nocturne will be out this Friday.
Luke and Eleanor close our their series on the Medieval Arthurian canon in style, covering the rest of the post-Galfridian era to the end o...
2023-11-08 14:33:25 +0000 UTC View Posthello patrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answered a question from Jae on this one.
this time, the series on Arthuriana continues into the post-Galfridian era. following Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, which created the narrative structure and foundation of the Arthurian canon ...
2023-11-02 14:07:54 +0000 UTC View Post
hello patrons, here's your second bonus episode for the month of October 2023 and we decided that it was time to review the newly-released Netflix anime series: Castlevania Nocturne. we're doing the first 4 episodes this time, then we will do the final 4 episodes of the first season next time. Nocturne is the sequel to the original Castlevania a...
2023-10-27 13:22:12 +0000 UTC View Post
hello patrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer a question from Ollie Cant. new bonus coming Friday, it will be the first of our two part review of Castlevania: Nocturne
in our 4th installment in the Arthuriana series, we finally get to the work that truly defines Medieval Arthurian legend: Geoffrey of ...
2023-10-25 13:53:54 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answered a question from Aurora on this one.
our 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 s...
2023-10-19 14:40:17 +0000 UTC View Post
hello patrons, this is your first bonus episode for October 2023! this time, we decided to talk about giants. you know: really tall, usually humanoid, have the strength of ten men, occasionally helpful but usually mean. we talk about Medieval belief in the existence of giants, would a really tall basketball player count as a giant to them, how t...
2023-10-13 14:13:38 +0000 UTC View Post
hello patrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. we answer a question from A Guy From PA in this one.
we'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 Tenny...
2023-10-11 14:11:11 +0000 UTC View Posthello, patrons, here's your ad-free regular episode for the week. we answer questions from Aurora, white trash historian, and gaffsey in this one.
folks, 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...
2023-10-05 11:50:31 +0000 UTC View Postbeautiful patrons, this is your second bonus episode for the month of September 2023! we decided to do another current events type episode for your enjoyment. first, Eleanor talks about why Russell Brand sucks so much (spoiler: he's the worst) and how the media elides malicious celebrity jerks. then Luke does some of his patented stargazing to t...
2023-09-29 12:02:13 +0000 UTC View Posthello, patrons! here's your ad-free regular episode for the week! we answered a question from Mooooooog on this one. new bonus episode coming Friday on current events and such.
Luke 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 discu...
2023-09-27 14:58:33 +0000 UTC View Postpatrons, this is your ad-free regular episode for the week. there's no question this week because we had a guest.
today, 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...
2023-09-20 13:08:35 +0000 UTC View Post
well we've finally made it to the end of another book club series as we finish up Dante's Inferno. along with Dante and Virgil, we've made it all the way through Hell and we're finally going to get to see the Ninth Circle and Satan himself. so strap in for a frozen hellscape, giants, various sorts of traitors, a weepy, depressed devil, and the g...
2023-09-15 14:15:16 +0000 UTC View Post