Introducing: Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World

Explore some of the most powerful ideas, tensions, and political struggles that shaped the modern world. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Coming to Curiosity podcast. Hey, they're a podcast listener. Do
you consider yourself a history book? Do you fall down
Wikipedia rabbit holes about old popes and the Crusades? Or
are you just curious about what medieval times would be
like if it were actually historically accurate. If so, we

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have a new podcast for you, half hour history Secrets
of the Medieval World, from the Fall of Rome to
the Black Plague. This show has it all and even
some things you may not know about, like a Renaissance
before the Renaissance. I'm Mike Coscarelli, and I'll be guiding
you through the Middle Ages with our lecturer, doctor Christopher

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Bulido from Kane University in New Jersey. Over the course
of this podcast, doctor Bulido will be reframing what you
thought you knew about the Medieval times. If the Dark
Ages were so bad, how did we end up with
Gothic cathedrals, with universities, with Francis, with Bernard of Clairvaux.
How did we have this flowering of nights and chivalry?

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How did that happen? If things were so bad? It's
not all jousting and tournaments and turkey legs, but nothing
beats the real stories behind popes, fighting with kings, the
Code of Chivalry, and the origins of King Arthur. So
join me for a little time travel and a whole
lot of history. Listen to half hour history Secrets of

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the Medieval World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
wherever you get your podcasts starting March twenty eighth,