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News in the Middle Ages

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4.3 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Historian Helen Birkett explores communication networks and the spread of information and news in the medieval era. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.7

I'm Ellie Cawthorthorne.

0:56.2

On today's podcast, we've got an interview with Helen Burkett about the spread of medieval news.

1:02.2

Helen is senior lecturer in medieval history at the University of Exeter,

1:05.8

with a particular research interest in communications and how information, in particular news, was

1:12.9

transmitted in the Middle Ages. Our content director, David Musgrove, met up with her in Exeter

1:19.1

to find out more. First question, I suppose, is we think of news and we think of prints and we think

1:25.7

of Kaksin printing press and that's, you know, that's

1:27.8

where news comes from. Yes, that's what we tend to think. So that's obviously later than the

1:34.0

period that we're talking about. Why are we talking about news in the medieval period? But how does

1:39.6

that, how does that even affect? Well, I your scepticism because this is actually a problem.

1:45.3

So there's two things that are really important to consider when thinking about news in the

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