One of The Greatest Battle of Wills In Human History
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this episode we travel with Neil to Italy, to watch two of the most powerful men in history go head to head, and start a battle that has echoed down through time to the present day!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, time travelers, always great to have you with me. Here we are again together as we continue our journey through history. |
| 0:07.0 | As always before the episode, I've got to say thanks to all the people who show their support for all of the podcasts that Paul and I do together |
| 0:15.3 | by subscribing to my Patreon.com site. It's the financial support that comes in from there that makes |
| 0:21.3 | all the free stuff that we do possible, the love letters specifically. |
| 0:25.7 | So to all those who are supporting the effort via Patreon, huge thank you. |
| 0:31.0 | If you're not a member yet and you'd like to join and support the work go to |
| 0:35.0 | patron.com, search for me by name, become a member, part with some cash, monthly or |
| 0:40.4 | annually. It's cheaper if you go for the whole year at once. You get access |
| 0:44.5 | the vaudcasts every week, a question and answer session that Paul and I become |
| 0:49.2 | very fond of and it'd be great to have you as part of the family. Okay, it's now time to strap yourselves into the time machine as we set off on the next stop on my love letter to the world. |
| 0:59.0 | Recorder microphone, action. The church presented itself as top dog as the daddy. |
| 1:14.0 | Deadly violence erupts as the mob frees a famous charioteer. State retribution is swift, brutal and extreme. Thousands of innocents are killed. |
| 1:34.8 | Appalled by the atrocity, the church excommunicates the man who ordered it, the Roman |
| 1:40.4 | Emperor. |
| 1:42.4 | The battle of wills between church and state is born, a tug of war over the mastery of |
| 1:48.0 | the people that is one of the greatest themes in the history of the world. |
| 1:58.0 | Endeavoring to understand history in hopes of eliminating the future. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world. Hi Neil, in the last episode it was 306 AD and we watched a mighty Roman army proclaim their man, Constantine Emperor. |
| 2:17.0 | Where are we this week? |
| 2:19.0 | Hi Paul, well this week we're in Milan. |
| 2:21.0 | It's the best part of a century later and at this point in time |
| 2:25.6 | Milan is a place to be. It's where the power is. It's home to both the Roman Emperor, |
| 2:30.7 | the King of Kings and to the most famous and celebrated churchmen in Christendom. |
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