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Hello, I'm Matt Lewis.

Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the greatest

millennium in human history.

We've got the most intriguing mysteries, the gobsmacking details and latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the printing press,

from kings to popes to the crusades. We cross centuries and continents to delve into rebellions,

plots and murders, to find the stories big and small that tell us how we got here. Find out who we really were with gone medieval.

The year is 1187. The charred bones of countless crusaders litter the parched plains of Galilee.

An oblique crisis has enveloped the fragile Christian states of the

Holy Land. Jerusalem, the Holy City, seized from the Saracens less than a century prior, is under siege.

Its city walls draped with the banners of the cross are surrounded by the forces of the irrepressible

and mighty Sultan Saladin.

The air is thick with the wistful peal of ancient church bells.

Citizens scramble for refuge, and yet, for now, the city is not yet lost.

An English woman on pilgrimage finds herself trapped within the city through bad luck

and poor timing. But she doesn't give up hope. Donning a borrowed coat of armour and a cooking

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