The Truth About the Middle Ages w/ Daniele Cybulskie

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm speaking with Daniele Cybulskie, who is a historian, writer, and podcaster. Daniele has written several books about medieval history, which you can find here: http://www.danielecybulskie.com/books

She is also the host of The Medieval Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-medieval-podcast/id1448142533

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0:00.0	the people in the 1500s and later were just patting themselves on the back so they were like
0:05.2	that stuff that happened in the middle when everybody was Catholic forget about that was all
0:09.6	superstition we want to think about the ancient Greeks and ourselves so that was called the middle
0:14.2	period rarely early on like I think the late 1400s of 1500s people calling it the middle period
0:20.5	because they were like let's just forget about that people were dumb during that time and we've
0:24.5	continued to say that even though huge amounts of technological innovation was happening people
0:31.2	are you know reading more often more books being circulated more science all the stuff happening
0:36.1	but it was really is propaganda thing and we are still buying into it we still think like the
0:40.8	Romans were amazing and then things got amazing after the middle ages but the middle was all like
0:45.5	blue filter and modern blood that's not how it was are we yes where are we here why are we here not
0:53.8	entirely clear we are misfits thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all as to how
1:02.2	we're supposed to make sense of it all it's immensely bizarre here we are hello welcome to the here
1:11.0	we are podcast I'm so excited I'm dressed this is my first ever getting dressed up in something
1:18.4	for the here we are podcast it's been eight years I think I've been recording this show
1:23.9	and this is my first time we're talking about medieval times today I am so excited my guest to
1:31.9	joining me is Danielle Sapolsky so thank you so much Danielle for joining me thanks for having
1:39.3	me it's a pleasure to be here and I love outfit thanks it has so I have another podcast called
1:45.4	Mind Under Matter it's a comedy and philosophy podcast I do with an artist and we like make a lot
1:50.7	of like weird culty things so we have this I love it does it have pockets tell me it has pockets
1:59.2	I know but that's a really good idea I mean this is just a cape in a hood it's like pretty
2:05.2	it's pretty weak I mean really next year we're going we just did a we just did a whole
2:13.1	like camp out festival and rally that was several days and science talks and music and comedy
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