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Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanorianica, and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history.

We uncover the greatest mysteries, the gobsmacking details, and the latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the Normans, from kings to popes, to the Crusades.

We delve into the rebellions, plots, and murders that tell us who we really were.

And how we got here.

You've probably heard me say that one of the easiest ways you can tell that something is early modern rather than medieval is to ask, are there Protestants?

This is a hard and fast rule, and one that uses what we now call the Catholic Church as a cultural hegemon, mostly untroubled and understood as the arbiters of the faith, at least in Europe,

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