'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...
From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy: Pope Leo IX and the Gregorian Reform
'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages
1 hour 14 minutes
1 month ago
From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy: Pope Leo IX and the Gregorian Reform
Send us a text After a summer hiatus, we are finally back with a new episode, the third in our series on the medieval papacy, “From Bishop of Rome to the Papal Monarchy.” The previous covered the tenth-century nadir of the papacy, when it was dominated by powerful Roman families and used to enhance their power and control over the city and the papal states. In this episode, my favorite co-host Ellen Harrison Abels and I explain how the foundations of the papal monarchy were laid in the mid el...
'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...
