'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages
Richard Abels
66 episodes
6 days ago
Send us a text To celebrate my birthday—yes I was a Halloween baby—I decided to do a short episode recounting my one up-close and personal experience with a ghost. No, it was not a ghost of some one who died in the Middle Ages. In fact, I don’t know who it was. But since ‘Tis But A Scratch” is a medieval podcast, I start with three ghost stories from the Middle Ages. It probably comes as no surprise that medieval people believed in ghosts, and ghost stories are scattered thr...
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Send us a text To celebrate my birthday—yes I was a Halloween baby—I decided to do a short episode recounting my one up-close and personal experience with a ghost. No, it was not a ghost of some one who died in the Middle Ages. In fact, I don’t know who it was. But since ‘Tis But A Scratch” is a medieval podcast, I start with three ghost stories from the Middle Ages. It probably comes as no surprise that medieval people believed in ghosts, and ghost stories are scattered thr...
Fall of the Roman Republic: From Sulla's March on Rome to Caesar's Assassination
'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages
1 hour 25 minutes
10 months ago
Fall of the Roman Republic: From Sulla's March on Rome to Caesar's Assassination
Send us a textThis is the second of a three part series about the fall of the Roman Republic. My cohost for all three episodes is Dr. Jennifer Paxton of the Catholic University of America. We actually had been planning only two episodes, but the story is long and detailed, so we thought that three would be best. In episode one, Jenny and I explained the workings of the Roman Republic and the military, economic, and cultural factors that undermined its stability in the late second and first ce...
'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages
Send us a text To celebrate my birthday—yes I was a Halloween baby—I decided to do a short episode recounting my one up-close and personal experience with a ghost. No, it was not a ghost of some one who died in the Middle Ages. In fact, I don’t know who it was. But since ‘Tis But A Scratch” is a medieval podcast, I start with three ghost stories from the Middle Ages. It probably comes as no surprise that medieval people believed in ghosts, and ghost stories are scattered thr...
