Please fix the sound - Kelly is so difficult to hear without turning the volume up to levels that threaten to blow your speakers when the ads come in 😅😅😅

I can barely hear this, but at least the many ads are loud

Great work but its kinda hard to wait 12 minutes until it gets rolling. I would keep your intro chatter down to 3 to 4 minutes. Love your work

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Medieval gothic cathedrals and the universities Roger Bacon

If the picture you're using for this video is the rock carving that you're talking about I think you should point out that behind the man doing the carving of the other man there is something that appears to be an eagle watching. Sometimes I think we get caught up in trying to disprove things that seem a little bit over the top but I 100% believe that this was something that they did to the high-level prisoners that they captured. They wouldn't have done this to the average soldier with a spear but with a captured King I think this was obviously an option for them.

I think there's something crucial that you're not thinking about. These Vikings like any other men of this era had been hunting and then dismembering many animals in all of their lifetimes. This would include wild boars, deer, elk, rabbits and on and on. I worked for several years as the head of a butcher shop at a fancy grocery store and I 100% believe that this procedure is not half as difficult as you think. The lungs don't have to continue working for this to happen. The man will die in the process of a blood eagle being carved through his back and that doesn't make any difference. I believe that they would continue to make the eagle even if the man enduring it had passed away. There's just too much smoke in the old sources for this not to have occurred. I am 100% a believer in the blood eagle having occurred. It was supposed to be horrific and bloody because it was a gruesome statement.

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My favourite part is when Death saws a tree underneath the man who was only an actor playing at being dead for a jest, and the actor begs him but Death says no. To me the movie isn't a realistic interpretation of the medieval ages itself, but a work directly inspired by a medieval work of art then reworked aesthetically in the imagination of the limitations of the very short budget (having to use stock theatre medievalesque objects, the way that Operas use helmets with horns on them that aren't actually authentic helmets the vikings once wore at all), after all they have to use props, so in the budget they had they can only go for style. But Bergman, in the tableaux above of the peasant actor being sawn off a tree by Death below, is a comedic look at death, that Bergman said was inspired by a painting he saw of Death playing on a chessboard, I vaguely remember reading. It might be that in the original painting ''Döden spelar schack'', by Swedish artist Albertus Pictor in the 15th century, being in close proximity with death, the temporality of life, it, like some medieval art, displays a quirky comedy to contemplating the side by side nature of life and death. There are other famous painting by Albertus, for instance, ''Dancing peasants'', that looks like similar scenes in Bergman's film, of the actor being made to dance in the tavern by force to amuse the jealous husband's sadistic humiliation game. Meanwhile, the knight's squire, tries to humiliate Albertus himself, who is painting a mural of the end of the world on a fresco while the squire mocks the artist, but you can kind of tell, that this mockery is self-aimed at Bergman's own attempt to make the movie, as you can tell by the introduction Begman wrote to his screenplay he published of it, that he actually deeply sympathizes with and even sees himself as filling in the role of the painting of frescoes that Albertus did for a medieval audience by making a film for a modern audience. ''Regardless of my own beliefs and my own doubts, which are unimportant in this connection, it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its ownsterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God. He lived and died without being more or less important than other artisans; 'eternal values,' 'immortality' and ' masterpiece ' were terms not applicable in his case. Theability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invul- nerable assurance and natural humility. Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy. Thus we finally 8 gather in one large pen, where we stand and bleat about our loneliness without listening to each other and without realising that we are smothering each other to death. The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. Thus if I am asked what I would like the general purpose of my films to be, I would reply that I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone. It does not matter which; it is the sense of satis- faction that counts. Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral.'' - Ingmar Bergman's introduction to his script

Intresting and captivating. Please continue.

Is this you in this or are you content stealing over 10-year-old podcast episode?

Have you guys ever heard of Maid Marion and Her Merry Men? BBC children's comedy series from the early 90s, featuring many people who also worked on Blackadder?

Virgin spring is good too. The original last house on the left.

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Please, what is the five hours long movie mentioned at 07:02?

Good one! I love this movie!

Middelburg is a city in Zeeland, which was already an entity in the middle ages, so not part of Flanders...

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I am a history major, with a penchant for the Medieval era. Hope to teach it. Working on my MA next Fall.

Never seen the film, but would love to see it with English subtitles if possible. What I would love even more to see would be a film (perhaps TV mini-series) of all three books, as I don't see them as stand-alone books; the three are better seen as one.

On the subject of Richard III's failure at Bosworth: Have we considered the role of chronic pain on his cognitive ability? We know he was drinking like a fish at the time of his death, probably at least partly for pain relief. Scoliosis is progressive, and it increases the wear and tear rate on the bones. My spine is pretty bad (though not quite as bad as Richard's), but I was still fairly functional up through my late 20s when the pain caught up with me. He was 19 at Tewksbury and Barnet, so his scoliosis would likely have been less of a factor at that point.

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loved it, enchanting, intriguing!

Thank you.

Great stuff but how have you covered Acre and Jerusalem before Antioch?! Lol

You just HAD to inject personal political views....NO THANKS

i wish theyd leave comedy out of it really. good stuff though

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My mother's father was born in Scotland. When I visited as a young man I found a kilt in the family tartan (on sale!) and so bought it. Later I met an older Scots lady whose comments about wearing my mother's tartan was, "Ye shuld always wear yer mither's tartan 'cuz yer ne'er too sure who yer fither is."

Despite the cautions, the parallels are very hard to ignore, right down to the bias against the poor that they make a lot of babies and aren't hard working. In any case, the Roman society seems like it was a deeply sick society. I wonder how much of its staying power game from its underclass' numbers, to its virtues--which might have been alien to the upper classes--and to the small number of elements in the Roman constitution that ran counter to the naked interests of powerful and corrupt men.

A very interesting list - thank you. But why, why, why did you not include Henry V by Dan Jones? It’s so good, very readable, excellent scholarship and demonstrates a very thorough understanding of what made Henry V England’s greatest King. If you’re interested in medieval history, you have to read/have this.

very good timing for new book. Probably around that time the History of Byzantium podcast will end. Those episodes with Robin will be epic

free Palestine

Gratia tibi ago.

These people that call themselves jewISH think Jesus Christ is boiling in excrement. Look it up. They do not worship the same God as Christians. They are NOT a Christian's Friend.

Kicked out of 109 countries, do you really think all 109 countries got it wrong? Most recently, Germany was Booming after they figured it out, then attacked and sacrificed for it. When are the Gentiles going to wake up and realize they have been scammed by these self proclaimed "gods chosen" identity thieves. They don't even think of us as human. Its quite clear what they think of us, check out the Talmud, interesting reading. They are doing the same thing to the "West" as they were doing in Germany. Transgenderism-jewish(they believe in multiple genders), gay-jewish, abortion-sacred jewish right, these are sick people. How diverse is Israel, does Israel allow immigration of non-jewISH people? NO? But all European/White countries have to diversify ourselves to Death. This is just them poisoning Gentiles all over again.

The food show?

19:00 sorry, what is the name of the person who said that?

For what it’s worth, I absolutely love your podcast, Danièle! It’s played a large part in rekindling and broadening my interest in medieval history. You are such a knowledgeable and convivial host and it’s a joy to listen to you and your guests geek out over lesser trodden areas of medieval research than the usual wars and royalty. I’m not sure why your podcast doesn’t have more listeners but I recommend to others whenever I have the chance.

.thank you.

Obrigado por disponibilizar o áudio em português do Brasil!

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I love how he tries to proclaim Game of Thrones as the better show and she is having none of it.

Pope give a cruzader letter to Iberian Peninsula identical to the one of Palestine. The big big difference was .. theres no Jerusalem in Iberia Peninsula..

Is she the mother of thor?.. Don't think so....

Greatest king in French history as far as I’m concerned

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Still not as much weight as a firefighter wears.