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Really interesting, thank you. Makes them feel so close and yet it’s hundreds of years ago. Wonder if they ever thought that their names would live forever. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

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the only way to enjoy this podcast is to think of it as a podcast about people's academic careers and understand beforehand that it will have nothing educative.

By the power of greyskull.

I identify as an ethnic helicopter. And some academics in the humanities wonder why so many no longer take them seriously.

The ad-hoc use of ethnicity in this video is a prime example of why I don't take the humanities seriously anymore. They use terms in unprincipled fashion and edit history to create any historical narrative they wish rather than just report the history. In other words, many in the humanities unethically and unprofessionally are peddling their politics under the veneer of being scientific and objective. Back in reality of facts, the exact reason why the Holy Roman empire adopted this term Byzantine to describe the eastern Roman empire is because the Holy Roman empire claimed to be the one and only Roman empire. It insisted, for centuries, the other one was Greek. The original context of Byzantine to describe the eastern Roman empire arose because the Holy Roman empire, well into the modern era, refused to call the other Roman even though the eastern one no longer existed because it still claimed to be the real Roman empire. It was the western one saying the eastern one was really Greek. It was the original ancient Greek name of Constantinople which is why the western Roman empire originally picked the name. Byzantium was a reference to ancient Greek civilization rather than Roman. Regardless what the east claimed to be, the west claimed they weren't real Romans. As they didn't claim them Slavs or Turks or anything but Greeks its not that unreasonable to assume there was some substance to their claim. Today some, western trained, revisionist historians have changed tunes and claim the opposite. They claim the eastern Roman empire was not Greek but Roman, and the Franks were not really Romans but Germans. The same authors typically claim Slavs are ethnic Macedonians and unethically evade as they turned into ancient Macedonians. In other words, their use of "ethnic' is a-la-carte and political rather than history based.

Name alone does not make an ethnicity. This sort of leftist word salad insantity is what lead to former Yugoslavians ridiculously being recognized as "ethnic" Macedonians.

Of course not; everyone knows medieval battles were completely stationary.

That Genghis movie with John Wayne is the one that killed him

A culture that indulges in the superstitious creed of 'Gender Identity' has no business castigating the people of yesteryear for their beliefs.

My grandmother used to do Onomancy with me when I was young. This episode made me think of her. :)

The sound is very clunky and there's no explanation of what the video is showing. It would be nice if you could put subtitles to explain what's going on in the dig, what the artifacts are, etc.

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My favorite author, and Regimental Bard for the Calgary Highlanders, my Regiment. I am terribly grieved at his loss. His Authurian stories would be, in my opinion, better than anything done on Game of Thrones!

This is a very superficial and stupid exposure of Andreas Capellanus's writings by very superficial and stupid "historians."

It never ceases to puzzle me (although it shouldn't) how very blasé even supposedly civilised, learned men are about violence against women. "Really just a very abuse boyfriend HaHaHaHaHa" "Serial rapist described as dragon in the media HILARIOUS" And then the inevitable dig against JK Rowling for a bit of virtue signaling in very much not women's direction. Well done.

What language is that?

Powerful words, read a bit of accounts from the time. Violent times. For interest in terror in old warfare, I recommend Laughing Shall I Die as well as Samurai Death Cult Will get Mongol Storm, want more understanding of further East, excellent work

Amazing, thank you for sharing this literary gem of Medieval Europe here!

No sound??

Thank you.

Brilliant. Thank you.

A lot of interesting information. It is a pity that it is at times difficult to understand the words spoken.

Holy Moses! Michelle Brown is a tour de force. Bless you, "Ms. 5 Minute Medievalist", for having the grace to let her guest share so much of that knowledge. Amazing.

The politics in that first sentence cannot be ignored. All those individuals entities, and one of the classes of independent entities is "towns".

Necromancer and goblins' castle! How very Sauron!

Another very interesting and entertaining video on Alfred, I look forward to the next.

I play tabletop RPGs. This is such wonderful information. It's really useful in the world building threading depth and flavor.

It's a shame that so many have gone down a rabbit hole with the various versions of the poetic translation. The entry in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles is written in a northern English dialect which is still spoken today. AD dccc.xxxvii her aethelstan cyning - eorla ðryhten - beorna beahgifa - ⁊ his broðer eac - eadmund aethling - elderlangne tir - geslogon aet - saecce sƿearda ecgum - ymbe brunanburh - AD 937 Here Athelstan signing - all of th[e] writing - born a begiver - and his bother is - Eadmund Athling - elder long not to you - goes looking at - says sweared he come - he's at brunanburh - Line six in the ASC states: - heowan heaþolinde - [here won heatherland] in Egils saga the place is called Vínheiðar. Vin is the colour, as in vin rouge and heiðar is the word heather. When the heather is in flower the colour of the flower is Vin. Brun is brown, the colour of the heather when not in flower. In the late 1500's the area called Brunanburh was still known as Æthelstan Moor.

There are better Alfreds out there.

No, he was neither Great, nor King, nor an Alfred.

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What an amazing and knowledgeable speaker! This was fascinating, I could have listened to her for hours. Thank you so much

Three books that could be mentioned are: 1. Baudolino by Umberto Eco 2. Σκούφος από πορφύρα Μάρω Δούκα 3. Περί της εαυτού Ψυχής Ισιδωρος Ζουργός

I wanted to love this podcast. I was looking forward to film-related history, not film critique. I definitely think there's room for the hosts' personal preferences about the movie, and I expected talk about its inaccuracies, but this conversation felt like a lot of mocking of the script and raucous laughter. If you're open to suggestions, give a listen to Heather Teysko in her new podcast, "Watching The Tudors," in which she discusses episodes of the 2008 TV series about Henry VIII. Like "Braveheart," "The Tudors" was much more about entertainment than historical accuracy, but Heather reviews it in a constructive, fun way. Thanks for trying, though. I usually like Medievalists content... I'm sorry this wasn't my cup of tea.

I enjoy the idea that ghengis heard that in the civilized lands leaders claimed a divine right to rule and he responded "Okay...well,... Me too." And then they knew they were in real trouble

Thank you so much , that was so interesting. Just wonderful to hear that lady talk. I could,have listened for ages. Thank you once again. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

the venerable Bede, will be most grateful, that his name & works of literature are still being honoured & discussed in the 21 century, folks 😁

Thank you so much. This was a wonderful use of 3/4 of an hour. If there's a chance for a future interview, that would be lovely.

i wonder if we know if this was written before the writings of crestien de troyes or maybe during his period of writing. she mentions yvain, i wonder if it was she or crestien who invented that character. the name lanval also seems very reminiscent of lancelot and perceval, i wonder if this name was the precursor to these. old french literature has such a mystical and magical effect to me that i was suddenly reminded of with your great soft reading! i also love to think of these stories as a continuation of celtic storytelling, with the maidens clearly being alike to fairies, and lanval and they ending up going to avalon which is essentially just a celtic otherwold. anyway, love your content, keep up the great work!

As American's, you may be fine with Kevin Costner's keeping his US accent. Being British, the excess of US accents was off-putting. Get an actor that can at least do a better British accent that Dick Van Dyke. Costner was miscast. Remove the Robin Hood labelling, and Prince of Thieves, would have been a fine fantasy. As is, its Hollywood corrupting and mangling European history and myths again.. I have the same problem with Sean Connery in many films. Whether as an Egyptian/Spaniard or a Lithuanian (Highlander and Hunt for Red October). As for the Russell Crowe film. For someone not familiar with any of the Robin Hood stories. They would have been hard pushed to recognise the film much of a connection to Robin Hood. Hollywood should hue more to extant history and "lore". As so many people only learn "history" from films. Robin of Sherwood was my era of Robin. Excellent series. The UK also has a "New Adventures of" in 2006. Its was bad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_(2006_TV_series) . The same sort or mangling that "Merlin" went through en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(2008_TV_series).

And they all had the same dna

A mixture of real things and inventions Greeks wrote about scandinavians

Everybody know about the slave trade of the vikings They tried to hide it

They went to africa All the slaves

Like the bible The sagas an invention

Tory was a slave company

Vikings were chasing people Like some africans