'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages

48 Episodes

1. Alfred the Great, Part 2: A Chat with Professor Barbara Yorke

   Published: 10/5/2023
2. King Alfred: was he really all that 'great'?

   Published: 9/28/2023
3. Mongols

   Published: 5/26/2023
4. Robin Hood in Movies and Television

   Published: 4/6/2023
5. Robin Hood: Origins

   Published: 3/23/2023
6. "The Northman"

   Published: 2/15/2023
7. Vikings!

   Published: 1/27/2023
8. Some thoughts about Hanukkah by a (secular) Jewish medieval historian

   Published: 12/25/2022
9. Was King Æthelred Really Unready?

   Published: 12/21/2022
10. "Wicked" Medieval Women and the Monks Who Loathed Them

    Published: 12/7/2022
11. King Arthur in Literature and Popular Culture: From Sir Thomas Malory to the Present

    Published: 10/18/2022
12. King Arthur in History, Legend, and Popular Culture, Part 2: The Middle Ages

    Published: 10/10/2022
13. King Arthur in History, Legend, and Popular Culture. Part One: Was Arthur a Real Person?

    Published: 9/6/2022
14. Inquisitions, Jews, and the Formation of a Persecuting Society

    Published: 8/14/2022
15. Heresy and Crusade in Southern France: The Cathars

    Published: 7/23/2022
16. The Saint Brice's Day Massacre of 1002: A Case of Medieval Ethnic Cleansing?

    Published: 7/6/2022
17. Sanctity, Heresy, and Superstition: Saint Francis, the Heresiarch "Peter" Waldo, and a Holy Greyhound

    Published: 6/15/2022
18. A Crusader Murder Mystery: The Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (By Real Assassins)

    Published: 5/26/2022
19. How Saladin Took Jerusalem: Two Eyewitness Accounts and a Movie

    Published: 5/12/2022
20. Magna Carta, Bad King John, and an English Crusade

    Published: 4/25/2022