พอดคาสท์ Fact And Fiction ชั้นนำ (2025)

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Halloween special: Three Medieval Ghost Stories and My One Encounter with a Ghost 43:21

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Send us a text To celebrate my birthday—yes I was a Halloween baby—I decided to do a short episode recounting my one up-close and personal experience with a ghost. No, it was not a ghost of some one who died in the Middle Ages. In fact, I don’t know who it was. But since ‘Tis But A Scratch” is a medieval podcast, I start with three ghost stories fr…

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From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy: Pope Innocent III, Crusade, Church Reform, and the Apex of the Medieval Papacy 1:36:47

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Send us a text Yes, we have finally come to the end of our series "From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy." In this episode, Ellen and I talk about the pontificate of Innocent III, which historians see as the apex of the papal monarchy. Among the topics we cover are Innocent III's ideology of Caesaropapism, his contribution to the crusading move…

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From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy: the Rise of the Papal Monarchy 1:12:24

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Send us a text In this, the fourth--and penultimate--episode of our continuing series on the medieval papacy, my wife Ellen and I examine the establishment of the papal monarchy in the twelfth century. We discuss how the Investiture Controversy transformed the papacy and the Church; how the growth of papal governance and business along with its nee…

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"1066 and All That": The Significance of the Norman Conquest, Part 1 (with Dr. Jennifer Paxton) 1:00:59

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From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy: Pope Gregory VII and the Investiture Controversy 1:04:56

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Send us a text The subject of today’s episode, the pontificate of Pope Gregory VII and the Investiture Controversy, is a staple of undergraduate medieval surveys. The first episode I posted after our summer hiatus was actually one that I wrote for a different podcast, “BEEF With Bridget Todd.” It told of the feud between Pope Boniface VIII and King…

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From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy: Pope Leo IX and the Gregorian Reform 1:14:23

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Send us a text After a summer hiatus, we are finally back with a new episode, the third in our series on the medieval papacy, “From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy.” The previous covered the tenth-century nadir of the papacy, when it was dominated by powerful Roman families and used to enhance their power and control over the city and the papa…

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Pope Boniface VIII vs King Philip the Fair: Catholicism's Medieval Meltdown (an episode from the podcast "BEEF with Bridget Todd") 58:28

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Send us a text After a summer hiatus “’Tis But A Scratch: Fact & Fiction About the Middle Ages” is back—well, not actually quite yet. I am busily working on the final two episodes of our series on the medieval papacy, “From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy.” I should have episode three on the Gregorian Reform and the Investiture Controversy out…

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Mysterious Medieval Manuscripts: Interview with Garry J. Shaw 1:10:40

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Send us a text Now for something completely different from tracing the development of the papacy from bishop of Rome to the papal monarchy--but, don't worry, I will be completing that series soon. In this episode, I chat with author Garry J. Shaw about his fascinating new book from Yale University Press, Cryptic: From Voynich to the Angel Diaries, …

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The medieval papal conclave: starving cardinals into consensus 29:38

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Send us a text I finally saw the movie "Conclave," and really enjoyed it. As you probably know, it is about the contentious election of a pope in a conclave of the college of cardinals. The movie, however, never explains what the word conclave actually means or how and why that papal electoral procedure began. This episode will remedy that omission…

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From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy, Part 2: The Early Middle Ages 1:32:21

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Send us a text In this second episode of a three part series, my favorite cohost Ellen and I survey the development of the papacy from the eighth through the early eleventh century. Among the topics we discuss are who and what the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties of Francia were; Pope Zacharias' legitimization of Pepin the Short's deposition o…

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From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy: the early centuries 1:23:28

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Send us a text In this first episode of a three part series, my favorite cohost Ellen and I survey the development of the papacy over its first seven centuries. I have to confess that along the way I got somewhat off topic talking about the Roman persecution of the Christians. But it is an interesting subject in itself and worth exploring, and as 3…

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El Cid, From History to Legend 1:03:34

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Send us a text In this episode I interview Professor Nora Berend of the University of Cambridge about her new book El Cid; The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary (Pegasus Books, 2025). We discuss how the historical Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, a ruthless and ambitious mercenary who served both Christian and Muslim rulers in the violent and chaoti…

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Tne Norman Conquest (with Dr. Jennifer Paxton), part 2 1:01:42

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Send us a text This is the second of our two part series on the Norman Conquest. In it Jenny and I discuss the military challenges faced by King Harold Godwinson and Duke William of Normandy and the battles of Fulford Gate and Stamford Bridge, before turning to look closely at the Battle of Hastings (which did not actually take place at Hastings). …

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The Norman Conquest, part one: From Cnut to the Death of Edward the Confessor 1:06:52

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Send us a text This is the first half of a two part series on the Norman Conquest of England. My cohost for both parts is a veteran of this podcast, Dr. Jennifer Paxton of the Catholic University of America. Jenny is one of the very best historians of Anglo-Norman England, so this is a subject right up her alley. In this episode we explore the hist…

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Fall of the Roman Republic, part 3: From Octavian to Augustus 48:32

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Send us a text Yes, I know that Octavian IS Augustus, but this episode is about how Gaius Octavius became Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, and in doing so replaced the old Roman Republic with a military autocracy masquerading as a republic. This is the conclusion of our three part series on the fall of the Roman Republic. My cohost for all three episo…

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Fall of the Roman Republic: From Sulla's March on Rome to Caesar's Assassination 1:25:52

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Send us a text This is the second of a three part series about the fall of the Roman Republic. My cohost for all three episodes is Dr. Jennifer Paxton of the Catholic University of America. We actually had been planning only two episodes, but the story is long and detailed, so we thought that three would be best. In episode one, Jenny and I explain…

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The Fall of the Roman Republic, Part 1: The Late Roman Republic in Theory and Practice 1:12:57

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Send us a text For the fiftieth (!) episode of this podcast, I'm taking a few centuries detour from the Middle Ages to talk about the fall of the Roman Republic. In this episode, the first of a two part series, my cohost Dr. Jenny Paxton and I talk about the political and cultural institutions of the Roman Republic in the late second and first cent…

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A medieval election 50:47

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Send us a text I know. Just what everyone needed, an episode about an election. To take a break from reading and watching election postmortems, I decided to return to one of my favorite teaching texts, the monk Jocelin of Brakelond’s Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds. This is more of a personal memoir of what Jocelin saw and experienced as…

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Con games, scams, and deceits of the medieval Near East exposed: "The Book of Charlatans" 55:30

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Send us a text This episode is devoted to a truly unique and pretty weird Arabic text, The Book of Charlatans by an obscure early thirteenth-century Arabic scholar, Jamal al-Din 'Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari, commonly known simply as al-Jawbari. At the behest of a Turkman sultan, al-Jawbari composed an encyclopedic guide to the scams, con games, and tri…

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Episode 366 – Willie 57:09

1y ago57:09

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Time for William 4 to shine and demonstrate the admiral qualities of a king. Or not.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 365 – The Downhill Run 1:00:21

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George 4 (May he live forever) is sick again but this time it may be real. He’s on the booze, the drugs and lots of tucker so is doing himself no favours. And his pet giraffe will die. Sad.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 364 – She’s Back 57:54

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Caroline has come back to England to be the darling of the people. For a bit.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 363 -Empire 57:35

1+ y ago57:35

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How on earth have we become a mighty empire? Plus George will get his very own silly hat but will Caroline spoil the fun.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 362 – Unhappy Children 53:59

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Well the whole family looks pretty dysfunctional so it is hardly surprising that we have unhappy children. Princess Charlotte just wants to have fun but Prinny is not about to let that happen. She is to obey him.โดย dickshistory

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Crusaders and Settlers in the Holy Land: Who Went and Why 1:04:50

1+ y ago1:04:50

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Send us a text In this episode I talk with the distinguished historian of the crusades Dr. Steven Tibble about the motivations of crusaders and of those Europeans who settled in the Crusader states of Outremer. Steve is the author of five books dealing with the crusades, the most recent of which is Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in …

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Episode 361 – India falls 59:08

1+ y ago59:08

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Team Wellesley will finish the job and India will become part of the British empire.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 360 – The Wellesley boys are back 1:02:17

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It will be Richard and Arthur working in India. All they want is everything, thanks.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 359 – Prinny 59:19

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George has a new name for his closest friends to use. Meanwhile, Napoleon has got himself into all sorts of bother by going into Russia. Lots of his brave boys will not be going home again.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 358 – Are we there yet? 53:57

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Prince George is desperate to take over from his mad dad, but plenty of people would rather he didn’t. On and on it goes. Historical fiction this week will feature a cross dressing lesbian at the court of Ted 2 and that means some Piers Gaveston action.โดย dickshistory

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The Battle That Destroyed the Military Forces of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: Hattin (1187) 1:06:45

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Send us a text On 3-4 July 1187 the Sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin enjoyed the greatest military victory of his career. The Battle of Hattin, a two-day battle fought along the road leading to the town of Tiberias and, on the following day, on the Horns of Hattin, an iron-age hillfort above that road, is one of the few decisive battles of the Mid…

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Episode 357 -The Regency – Part 2 47:07

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George is getting there but he will have to be patient and so will we.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 356 – The Regency 59:57

1+ y ago59:57

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It is a long time coming but we are on the way.โดย dickshistory

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Norway's highest-grossing film: Liv Ullmann's Kristin Lavransdatter (1995) 23:55

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Send us a text Yes, Kristin Lavransdatter is the highest-grossing Norwegian film of all time. That isn't as impressive as it might sound, as the movie only brought in $3.7 million in box office receipts, but virtually all of that came from domestic sales. Pretty much unknown outside Scandinavia, the movie was a sensation when released in Norway in …

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Medieval Adultery in the Movies (with Kat Tracey) 1:09:30

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Send us a text This is the final episode--sort of*--of a multi-part series about medieval adultery in literature, history, and popular culture. My co-host Professor Larissa 'Kat' Tracey and I review how adultery has been dealt with in movies about the Middle Ages. We begin with three Hollywood medieval epics, "The Kingdom of Heaven," "Braveheart," …

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Medieval Adultery in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Opera and Literature (with Kat Tracey) 1:21:07

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Send us a text This is the third of a multi-episode series in which I chat with Dr. Larissa ‘Kat’ Tracey about literary representations of medieval adultery and its reality. In this episode Kat and I survey and discuss the major nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary treatments of medieval adultery, focusing on the stories of La(u)ncelot and Gu…

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Episode 355 – More Princely Action 1:01:33

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Yes it is all still about George. Except the bit about Duke of York Fred’s missus Freddie and her shoes.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 354 – The Prince of Wales 57:02

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I think we have already worked out that this guy is a bit of a dick. Well it is, as usual worse so let us meet him properly. Here he is marrying Mrs Maria Fitherbert without permission.โดย dickshistory

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Medieval adultery, part 2 (with Kat Tracy): Tristan and Iseult and a late twelfth-century "National Enquirer" story 1:08:57

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Send us a text This is the second of a three part series with my very special co-host, Dr. Larissa 'Kat' Tracy, about adultery in the Middle Ages. In the previous episode, Kat and I talked about the Lancelot and Guinevere story. In this episode, we tackle the other great medieval tale of adulterous love, Tristan and Iseult. We begin, however, with …

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Episode 353 – George goes nuts again 1:00:11

1+ y ago1:00:11

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Yes, the old boy is back on his medications or something or other. He is off with the fairies and oh dear, however will we cope.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 352 – A big win for us and a big loss for the Germans 58:50

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Superstar Nelson will knock out the Frenchie navy and that will hurt Napoleon. He will though belt up the Russians and Germans at Austerlitz giving Ridley Scott happy visions of putting that in a movie.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 351 – The 19th Century 1:01:16

1+ y ago1:01:16

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Shall we kick off the new century with war? Why not.โดย dickshistory

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Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century (with Dr. John Hosler) 1:03:25

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Send us a text In this episode, my very special guest Dr. John Hosler draws upon the research he undertook for his book Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace (Yale University Press, 2022) to discuss what Jerusalem meant in the thought and imagination of Christians and Muslims in the twelfth century, and the role the city played in the L…

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Episode 350 – A Riot 1:02:42

1+ y ago1:02:42

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You can alway rely on Bristol for a riot every few years.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 349 – The Empire Strikes Back 1:01:30

1+ y ago1:01:30

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In which the Indians lose India. But the British Government can see that the company has gone way too far and so will impeach Warren Hastings. Yes the only decent English guy to run the company is the one to cop it.โดย dickshistory

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St. Thomas Becket, 2: the Martyrdom 1:08:57

1+ y ago1:08:57

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Send us a text In this episode my co-host Dr. Jennifer Paxton and I explain the principles and personal grievances that led to the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket and the significance of that event for Church-State relations in medieval England. We also talk about T.S. Eliot’s and Jean Anouilh’s plays about Thomas’ martyrdom, and the movies based on…

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Episode 348 – India 58:42

1+ y ago58:42

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It’s not so much as Britain winning an empire as India losing one.โดย dickshistory

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Medieval Adultery (with Kat Tracy), part 1: Lancelot and Guinevere 1:11:23

1+ y ago1:11:23

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Send us a text This is the first of a three part series about adultery in the Middle Ages. My co-host for both is Dr. Larissa 'Kat' Tracy. Last month Kat and I talked about my favorite medieval romance, Chretien de Troyes' late twelfth-century French poem "Yvain: The Knight with the Lion." Unlike the more famous medieval romances of Lancelot and Gu…

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Episode 347 – A New Pope 59:41

1+ y ago59:41

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War can mess up all sorts of things including a vote for a new pope.โดย dickshistory

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Episode 346 – Frenchie’s rule! 59:29

1+ y ago59:29

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The Frenchies seem to have their act together and have turned into winners. What we need is a mighty hero. Oddly enough one will turn up but can he do over the Frenchie mighty hero?โดย dickshistory

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St. Thomas Becket, part 1: King Henry II and his Chancellor, Thomas Becket 1:08:55

1+ y ago1:08:55

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Send us a text This is the first of two episodes on the career, historical context, and "afterlife" of England's most famous--and controversial--saint and martyr, St. Thomas Becket. My co-host for both is a veteran of this podcast, Dr. Jennifer Paxton of the Catholic University of America. In this episode we set the historical scene for Becket's ma…

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