A history podcast that aims to cover the birth of the European state system by examining the Early Modern Period of European history. Along the way, the podcast will delve into the geography, economy, politics, ideas, and culture of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period to give the listener a view into the lives of the people who lived the events. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 14 hours 30 minutes
episode 70: Episode 70b: More Agoraphobia
In this episode we address recent events in the podcasting community, and racism in a beloved sci fi franchise. Its not really that fun. But it gets better. The end is good. If you are into that kind of thing.10 American Presidents: http://www.10usp...
episode 71: Episode 71: Women in the Middle Ages, Women and the Law Part 2: Land and Marriage
In today's episode we look at the interaction between marriage, inheritance, and property. This may sound esoteric and boring. And it is. But it tells us an awful lot about how women interacted with this society so eat your acid polka broccoli....
episode 72: Episode 72, Women in the Middle Ages Part V: An Estate
After many months we wrap up our look at women in the middle ages with a discussion of what it all means. Spoilers: It isn't about the estate of women, it is about the frames of reference we explored along the way.
episode 73: Episode 73: Living the Life: Modern American Judaisms
To the horror of many, the "Living the Life" series has returned. This series of episodes aims to provide a very very basic primer into liturgical practices of many modern religions, to help the audience better understand how the stuff we dis...
episode 74: Episode 74: Slavery Part 1: Theory
By popular demand, we begin a very detailed look at medieval slavery. This time out we tackle what relevance this conversation has to the modern world, and how we even begin to define slavery, anyway.Reconsider: https://reconsidermedia.com/Intellig...
episode 75: Episode 75: Slavery in the Middle Ages Part II, Teaching an Old Narrative Modern Tricks.
In this episode we spend a bit of quality time with our friend Marc Boch and discuss why he thought what he thought about slavery and serfdom, why some of it was wrong, and why some of it is still valid. This is a nice, calm episode. Some gentle laughs...
episode 76: Episode 76: Slavery in the Middle Ages Part 3, The Economics of Slavery (Redux).
One would think that the economics of slavery would be simple, but then a person who thought that would clearly not be a fan of this show. https://www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com/
episode 77: Episode 77: Slavery in the Middle Ages Part 3; Transition
Unfreedom in the middle ages took on a wide variety of forms. In this episode I talk about the ideological shifts that accompanied this change, some examples of the deals that were struck, and one highly amusing example of priestly fraud.Map Corner:...
episode 78: Episode 78: Slavery in the Middle Ages Part 4; The Rise of Serfdom
This Episode wraps up not only our look at slavery in the middle ages, but the entire third season of this show.Zach's new book, Matchlock and the Embassy: http://www.wdfpodcast.com/thevassalstate/ml1I have read it all at this point and it i...
episode 80: Episode 80: An Interview with Zach Twamley
Do you like books? The Thirty Years War? CambraiWell you will need to listen to this one.