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All about the Middle Ages from Medievalists.net. Join Danièle Cybulskie and her guests as they talk about the medieval world, from Byzantium to the Vikings.
The English queens of the fifteenth century have had a serious popularity boost in the last twenty years, thanks to novels and TV series sho...
This week, Danièle celebrates ten years of The Five-Minute Medievalist by sharing some of the life lessons she's learned since the book came...
It’s always a great moment when you’re watching a play or a movie, and suddenly one of your favourite songs appears to heighten the mood. Al...
We’ve all been there: suddenly face-to-face with our ugliest selves, wrestling with pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony, or lust. A...
There are some very entrenched cultural ideas about the plague these days, involving big, beaky masks, and agonized people flagellating them...
Last week, we talked about a woman whose work was to support her husband’s dreams of conquest – and her son’s dreams of rebellion. But what...
They say that behind every successful man is a woman, and when it comes to one of the biggest medieval stories of personal success, that see...
When the king is semi-divine and the pope speaks for God, himself, who is the boss of whom? It’s a question most of us don’t spend our days...
Much in debate in England in the fourteenth century was how – and even if – the Bible should be translated into everyday language. Enter Mau...
As we wrap up the month, we have time to squeeze in one last love story. A tale packed full of potions, princesses, and even puppies, this o...
One of the best things about podcasting on all things medieval is the opportunity to learn about lesser-known places – especially when those...
From the social media buzz we saw a couple of years ago, it seems a lot of people spend a lot of time thinking about the ancient Roman Empir...
Since the new year, we’ve heard about both the development of medieval music and what it was like to live in the cultural hotbed of fifteent...
Despite its vast cultural, spiritual, and material wealth, medieval Africa has too often been sidelined in the study of the Middle Ages. Or...
One of the fun things about humans is our constant desire to engage with the supernatural, especially when it comes to getting a peek at the...
If you’re going to be a writer, it’s best to find yourself in a place where there’s plenty to write about, and fifteenth-century Italy was d...
Songs have a way of making us see and feel things unlike other forms of writing, which is why so many of us treasure the words of lyricists....
Who’s the fairest of them all? And, more importantly, how did they get that way? This week, a new biography of Marilyn Monroe sends Danièle...
If there’s one thing we can say about 2025 it’s that it was certainly full of surprises. From political bridge-burning to bridge-building, t...
He’s a hero. He’s an outlaw. And it turns out he’s also Christmastime favourite. Given his many incarnations, from a foxy cartoon heartthrob...
Love him or hate him, it’s hard to take one step into the medieval world without running into the larger-than-life figure of Richard the Lio...
In the last twenty years, the shadowy Assassins of the medieval Middle East have seen a serious resurgence in popularity. And yet, like so m...
It's the most wonderful time of the year: time to celebrate the best medieval books of 2025. This week, Danièle speaks with Peter Konieczny,...
In the last century we’ve witnessed people set foot on the moon, and seen even the dark side in high-res images, and yet the moon still evok...
With just one word, we can evoke a world of assumptions, stereotypes, and even accusations, clearly marking the difference between who’s in...
This year, we’ve spent some good quality time with early medieval queens, digging into their mysterious and spectacular lives and reigns. An...
As the nights get longer and spookier, there's one thing that's guaranteed to make our hair stand on end: corpses that just won’t stay dead....
Although a lot of medieval history is murky, the whys and wherefores – not to mention the timeline – of the Hundred Years’ War are firmly na...
Since time immemorial, we've given animals names, from the sublime to the utterly ridiculous. For everyone who’s looked at a puppy or a kitt...
In the dark forests of the Middle Ages – and the modern stories we tell about it – lurks a powerful, beautiful predator. Sometimes big and b...
The fourteenth-century is one of the most turbulent periods in European history. Famine, war, plague, royal depositions – you name it, this...
One of the difficult truths of life in the Middle Ages is that death was never far away. While the vast majority of medieval people owned fa...
Everyone loves a good medieval whodunit, but how did real people investigate homicides in the Middle Ages? What did they look for? And how d...
Part of the reason a lot of people figure nothing much went on during the Middle Ages is because we’ve lost a whole lot of sources telling u...
On September 4, 925 – 1100 years to the day this episode is released – King Æthelstan was crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames. Æthelstan is most...
When the power of an entire kingdom rests in the hands of just one man, it’s both incredibly valuable and incredibly dangerous to be that ma...
Maid, hero, heretic, saint - Joan of Arc is one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages. This week, Danièle speaks with Deborah M...
The people of the Middle Ages were no strangers to Cupid’s arrows, and just like us, they loved a good love letter. But in a world where lit...
He's one of the most popular figures in all of medieval history, and his book was a bestseller for literally centuries. So what do we know a...
This week, in celebration of Episode 300, Danièle answers your questions on everything from Hastings to hose, with a couple of surprises alo...
If you asked the average person how Vikings solved their problems, they probably wouldn’t say through lawyers. And yet, early Scandinavian p...
Elephants were known throughout most of the medieval world, even if most people had never encountered one, themselves. In bestiaries, elepha...
For three medieval Iberian queens, grief - and the way they expressed it - had immense and far-reaching consequences. This week, Danièle spe...
There are several famous examples of mysterious medieval writing, including the so-far unbreakable Voynich Manuscript. So, what secrets were...
There are a lot of gamechanging inventions that shifted the trajectory of the Middle Ages, but one machine managed to hit at just the right...
Given that the term literally means “rebirth”, the Renaissance throws some not-so-subtle shade on the period that comes before it. So, where...
It's one of the most notorious political assassinations in history: the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The story of...
One of the most celebrated moments in childhood is when a person utters their very first words, stepping over a brand new threshold of commu...
A mysterious figure ruling at the fringes of the known world, Prester John might be the most famous person you've never heard of. Like a med...
In the centuries since his death, the famous El Cid has been the star of plays, romances, feature films, and even propaganda campaigns. But...