Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World Podcast
1) Medieval Lives 13: A Christmas Coronation
It's Christmas Day in 1066, and a new king is to be crowned. There will be all sorts of festive events: arrows in the eye, fires outside the church, and just a little holiday looting too. If you lik...Show More
2) Medieval Lives 12: Two Saints and a Sinner
Marcellinus and Peter died in the early 4th century, but the saints would still be active and on the move in the 9th. This is about their journey. It is also about Charlemagne's biographer, Einhard, t...Show More
3) Afanasy Nikitin 2: Return from India
The 15th-century Russian merchant and traveller journeys back from India. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, â â â â â â my Patreon is hereâ â â â â â . I'm on BlueSky â â â â â â @...Show More
4) Afanasy Nikitin 1: Journey Beyond the Three Seas
Afanasy Nikitin, a 15th-century Russian merchant, sets out from Tver and immediately runs into trouble before travelling to India. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast...Show More
5) Osman of Timisoara 5: Osman's Great Escape
Osman flees Vienna and reaches freedom, with success and suffering on the other side. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, â â â â my Patreon is hereâ â â â . I'm on BlueSky...Show More
6) Osman of Timisoara 4: Imperial Pastry Prep and Tavern Brawls
Osman's time in the city of Vienna is punctuated by violent misadventure, an unlikely career in sweets, and an ethical failing. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, â ...Show More
7) Osman of Timisoara 3: Hunger, Illness, and Intimacy
The story of Osman of Timisoara continues, and on this episode we follow him out of his initial adventures in captivity and into the years that came after, years of "toil and misery," he would say, al...Show More
8) Osman of Timisoara 2: Ransom, Boats, and Bandits
In a fit of extreme absentmindedness, I forgot to upload this episode after recording it and then did the same thing for part 3 in the series! Osman of Timisoara 3 and 4 will follow this over the next...Show More
9) Osman of Timisoara 1: Prisoner of the Infidels
A departure from our usual historical period for the 17th-century story of Osman Agha of Timisoara, an Ottoman soldier taken prisoner in the years after the Battle of Vienna. If you like what you he...Show More
10) Medieval Lives 11: William Fitz Osbert and the Unrest in London
A 12th-century execution and the mixed messages in the chronicles around how things had gotten to that point. Did William with the Long Beard offer a better life to those unhappy in Richard I's London...Show More