Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

If you are planning - or dreaming of - your next holiday, have you stopped to wonder whether our medieval counterparts did exactly the same thing? Why did people travel in the Middle Ages, and what was the experience like for them? Were there any similarities with travelling today?

In this edition of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis talks to Anthony Bale. His book A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages invites the reader to journey alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East and the Antipodes, giving an insight into how medieval people understood their world.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	An endless war, a blood-soaked battlefield, a band of brothers.
0:06.0	1347, bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Cressy, six soldiers of fortune, the Essex dogs, pick through the wreckage of the fighting
0:15.3	and their own lives.
0:17.4	A searing tale about merchants, money and medieval men at war.
0:22.2	Wolves of winter by Dan Jones is a must read.
0:25.7	Wolves of Winter.
0:27.5	Out now in paperback.
0:30.6	Welcome to True Spies. The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret
0:36.6	missions of all time. Suddenly out of the dark disappeared in Lavin. You'll meet the people
0:41.1	who live life under cover.
0:43.5	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:46.0	And what would you do in their position?
0:48.5	Vengeance felt good.
0:50.0	Seeing these people pay for what they'd done felt righteous.
0:54.6	True Spies from Spiescape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis. It's the time of year
1:10.4	when we're all dreaming of our next holiday.
1:12.8	And if you're wondering whether our medieval counterparts were doing the same thing
1:16.4	and what travel was like hundreds of years ago too,
1:19.3	then we've got the perfect guest for you today.
1:21.6	Anthony Bale's a travel guide to the Middle Ages, the world
1:24.7	through medieval eyes. sets out on a quest to answer all of your questions and
1:28.9	Anthony joins me today to explore medieval travel in more detail. So welcome to God medieval Anthony.
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