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Hello, I'm Matt Lewis. Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the

greatest millennium in human history. We've got the most intriguing hit, the podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history.

We've got the most intriguing mysteries, the gobsmacking details and latest groundbreaking research

from the Vikings to the printing press, from kings to popes to the crusades.

We cross centuries and continents to delve into rebellions, plots and murders, to find the stories big and small that tell us how we got here.

Find out who we really were with Gone Medieval.

Here at Gone Medieval, we are always on a mission to bring you all of the juiciest bits

from the best thousand years of history.

And yes, the fact that it is the best millennium is settled science.

Please feel free to look it up.

Thank you very much.

But as we've mentioned before, just the fact that we have taken a specific range of a thousand or so years and called it medieval is a product of periodization,

where historians attempt to put a name to a time frame in order to have a working vocabulary to describe it.

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