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If you think that video games are too violent, wait until you hear about Face Slap.
Medieval Childhoods
Category: Culture
Episodes of The British History Podcast that include cultural history matters. You’ll learn about the diets, economics, and all the other aspects of daily life for the Celts, Romano-British, Britons, Anglo Saxons, and more.
Medieval Education Sample
460 – The White Tower
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It’s one of the most famous landmarks in the world. The White Tower, or more recently, the Tower of London. If you’ve visited London you likely took time to go see it.
457 – The Bachelor King
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William the Conqueror had not set his sons up for success, and at the heart of it was land.
Obviously, the way he distributed those lands in his Will had been a bit of a disaster, as it had set his two eldest sons up for war.
Medieval Magic Sample: Shout at the Devil
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453 – Odo’s Rebellion: The Cold War
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Primogeniture, the practice of handing all wealth and power from father to the eldest son, had done a lot to consolidate power along single family lines. But it created all manner of problems for …well, pretty much everyone else.
452 – Odo? Oh Yes.
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Somewhere around the time William the First was bursting out of his tomb like roasted chestnut and William the Second was making it rain with his dead dad’s money….something was turning in western culture as a whole.
451 – The Lucky Few
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You know, I almost titled the last episode “The Gang Goes To A Funeral” but the trouble was that the gang /didn’t/ go to the funeral. All of them decided they had somewhere else to be.
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Medieval Medicine Sample
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That’s right, just like big pharma, we’re giving out a free sample.