How To Live Like a Viking

Gone Medieval

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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The stories often told and retold of the early medieval period are those of great kings, battles and daring deeds. But ordinary people can often be harder to get at.

Matt Lewis is joined by Dr. Eleanor Barraclough to discuss how the once-lost little bits and pieces that survive - love letters carved into wood, combs and pots mainly from medieval rubbish dumps - provide windows into everyday Viking lives as they were lived.

Gone Medieval is presented by Matt Lewis and edited by Max Carrey. The producer is Joseph Knight. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	This is the story of how India transformed the world.
0:04.3	Join me, William Derimple, on my mission to reinstate India to its rightful place
0:09.5	as the great superpower of the ancient world.
0:12.0	In my new book, The Golden Road,
0:14.0	discover the Indian ideas that blazed a trail
0:18.0	across the globe from the Buddhism of China
0:20.0	to the creation of the numerals we still use today.
0:24.0	The Golden Road, available now in all good bookshops and on audiobook. Hello, I'm Matt Lewis. Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the greatest
0:40.0	millennium in human history. We've got the most intriguing mysteries, the gob-smacking details
0:46.8	and latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the printing press, from Kings to
0:51.9	popes to the Crusades. We cross centuries and
0:54.9	continents to delve into rebellions, plots and murders to find the stories big and
1:00.6	small that tell us how we got here.
1:03.2	Find out who we really were with gone medieval.
1:07.0	We often tell tales of great kings, battles and daring deeds from the early medieval period
1:18.9	because, well, those are the stories we have.
1:22.2	That is the world that can be reconvened. Well, those are the stories we have.
1:28.0	That is the world that can be reconstructed from sargas or relate burial sites.
1:32.4	Ordinary people can often be harder to get at.
1:33.0	Eleanor Barroclough's new book though aims to do just that.
1:37.0	Eleanor is a cultural historian, a broadcaster and writer based at Bathspar University. I'm delighted that Ellen has come
1:45.3	along to talk to us all about her new book, Embers of the Hands, Hidden Treasures
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