The Middle Ages in 5 Facts

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Where is the grave of King Arthur? What was the worst year in human history? Who were the most fractious royal siblings? What were the origins of humble pie? Which monsters pre-occupied Medieval minds?

In this episode, Gone Medieval’s co-hosts Matt Lewis and Dr. Eleanor Janega delve into some of the big Medieval questions, obscure facts and bizarre stories featured in History Hit Miscellany, our fascinating and entertaining new book published this month.

The History Hit Miscellany was published on September 28, visit historyhit.com/book to order from your favourite book shop.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:12.0	hi really welcome to Dan Snow's History. It's that joyful time of the week where we share
1:16.8	a sibling podcast of ours. This time it's gone medieval. We're going to be listening to an episode
1:21.2	they ran recently. Looking at some of the biggest questions, the things we get asked most of all here at history here about the medieval world.
1:28.0	Where is the grave of King Arthur, for example?
1:30.0	Did he even exist?
1:31.0	What was the worst year in human history? Who were the most
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