The Middle Ages in Five Facts

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

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 is published on September 28, but you can pre-order here or 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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0:00.0	If you're a fan of the podcast, I've got some exciting news for you. We're publishing a book.
0:04.7	If you've ever wondered, who was the third man on the moon? Why was a pigeon a hero in the
0:09.6	American army? And wasn't Napoleon really all that small? Then the history hit
0:14.0	Marcelini will have the answer. It's available for pre-order now and will be published
0:18.4	on the 28th of September. Pre-order from your favourite bookshop or visit historyhit.com forward slash
0:24.6	book. Welcome to this episode of God Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis. You might have heard some trailers
0:35.5	buzzing around for history hits shiny new book. Today we're going to take a look at some of the Medieval
0:40.5	stuff that we've managed to pack into it. So yes, this is a little bit of a sales pitch but via
0:45.7	the medium of interesting medieval history. Kind of a few reasons why you might want to go and buy
0:50.7	history hits Marcelini. It's published on the 28th of September but you can pre-order it now
0:55.3	from Amazon by searching for historyhit Marcelini or visiting historyhit.com forward slash book
1:02.1	to order it from your favourite bookshop. We thought we'd drag Eleanor along as well from the start of
1:07.1	the week to the end of the week to have a chat about some of the great facts that you can find
1:11.7	in the book. As going Eleanor are you enjoying God Medieval and are the audience being good to you?
1:16.9	The audience are being very very kind to me which is great news because I'm enjoying it a lot so
1:21.2	if they weren't we'd be at a bit of an impasse. Excellent news. It's good to hear you
1:25.7	being good to you and welcome to the back end of the week as well. Thank you so much from the shiny
1:30.4	hopeful start of the week. Look I'm a Friday girl fundamentally so it's my time to shine really
1:37.1	perfect. Yeah so we're publishing this Marcelini book which is kind of a collection of random stuff
1:44.0	interesting bits and pieces snippets of information statistics maps all sorts of stuff from all
1:50.2	across history so we thought this would be a good chance to talk about some of the medieval stuff
1:54.2	that we've managed to cram in there which is hopefully fascinating. There's stuff that maybe
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