Medieval Warfare podcast

The History Network

A history podcast about the Middle Ages and warfare during those times. From knights to Vikings, crusaders to kings, we will explore the medieval world and its military history.

  • 11 minutes 41 seconds
    MW17 - The Global Middle Ages with Stephen Morillo

    In this episode we talk with Stephen Morillo, whose interest in military history takes him from Anglo-Norman England to medieval Japan.

    17 December 2019, 8:01 pm
  • 12 minutes 37 seconds
    MW16 - Researching military history

    Clifford Rogers is our guest on this episode of the podcast. A professor of history at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Rogers is well known for his work on military revolutions and the Hundred Years War.

    We talk about his research and how he approaches doing historical research.

    4 June 2019, 6:39 pm
  • 23 minutes 14 seconds
    MW15 - Museums and the Middle Ages

    This summer we had the chance to take in several museums and their medieval collections.

    We talk about how to show the Middle Ages with Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye, director of Musée de Clunyin Paris, and Bianca Gendreau, who curated the 'Medieval Europe - Power and Splendour' exhibition at the Canadian Museum of History.

    13 September 2018, 11:17 am
  • 33 minutes 32 seconds
    MW14 - Æthelred the Unready and the Anglo-Saxon military

    We talk Anglo-Saxon military history with Richard Abels, whose latest book, Æthelred the Unready: The Failed King, will be coming out later this year.

    3 May 2018, 6:57 pm
  • 11 minutes 8 seconds
    MW13 - The Warriors of Valhalla

    We take a look into the world of Odin, Loki and Thor in this episode as were joined by Carolyne Larrington, author of The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes.

    2 March 2018, 1:50 pm
  • 19 minutes 5 seconds
    MW12 - Why Gawain was the best knight

    We're joined by Daniele Cybulskie, aka The Five Minute Medievalist, to talk about the Arthurian legends, and why she thinks that Sir Gawain was the greatest knight from the Round Table.

    25 October 2017, 7:53 pm
  • 24 minutes 12 seconds
    MW11 - The Woman Warrior Revisited

    Valerie Eads joins the podcast to give a paper she originally delivered earlier this year at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. A fascinating and thought-provoking examination of how historians have been looking at the role of women in medieval warfare.

    10 October 2017, 9:25 am
  • 25 minutes 4 seconds
    MW 10 - Churchmen and War

    We welcome Craig Nakashian to the podcast to talk about how bishops and other clergy could find themselves involved in medieval warfare. If someone took up the ecclesiastical life in the Middle Ages, could they still be a warrior?

    21 September 2017, 9:21 am
  • 17 minutes 41 seconds
    MW09 - Logistics

    This episode of medieval warfare podcast takes a look at a topic not discussed enough: logistics.

    We're joined by John Hosler and Ilana Krug to talk about how medieval armies get organized, fed and supplied, and how this can often determine which side is victorious in medieval campaigns.

    18 July 2017, 12:30 am
  • 8 minutes 52 seconds
    MW08 - The Medieval Centre, Denmark

    Peter is joined by Peter Vemming of the Medieval Centre in Demark.

    The Middelaldercentret is an experimental living history museum in Denmark, which depicts the middle ages in the Denmark of the late 14th and early 15th centuries.

    3 July 2017, 1:30 am
  • 30 minutes 18 seconds
    MW07 - Which Medieval Battle Would You Like to Witness?

    We bring Michael Livingston and Kelly DeVries to talk about which battles from the Middle Ages we would have really liked to have seen firsthand.

    It’s a wide-ranging conversation that takes from Hattin to Bruges and from Rhodes to Crecy. Unsung heroes, amazing encounters, and a little Monty Python in this conversation that we recorded at the International Congress on Medieval Studies.

    16 May 2017, 7:47 pm
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