488 Episodes

  1. Episode 94: The Perils of Prosperity

    Published: 1/18/2019

  2. Episode 93: A Royal Mess

    Published: 1/4/2019

  3. Supplemental: Early Medieval Music

    Published: 12/21/2018

  4. Supplemental: Early Medieval Architecture

    Published: 12/7/2018

  5. 92: Calling All Arms

    Published: 11/23/2018

  6. Episode 91: The Crusader States (Part Two)

    Published: 11/13/2018

  7. Episode 90: The Crusader States Part One

    Published: 10/29/2018

  8. Episode 89: The Holy City

    Published: 10/16/2018

  9. Episode 88: Fortress Antioch

    Published: 9/28/2018

  10. Episode 87: Into Asia

    Published: 9/14/2018

  11. Episode 86: The Gathering Storm

    Published: 8/31/2018

  12. Supplemental: Medieval Art Part Two

    Published: 8/3/2018

  13. Supplemental: Early Medieval Art Part One

    Published: 7/20/2018

  14. 85:Early Medieval Italy

    Published: 7/11/2018

  15. Episode 84: Social and Political Transformation in Medieval Italy

    Published: 6/22/2018

  16. Episode 83: Holier Than Thou

    Published: 6/8/2018

  17. Episode 82: The Holy Roman Empire

    Published: 5/24/2018

  18. Episode 81: The Governors of the World

    Published: 4/15/2018

  19. 80

    Published: 4/1/2018

  20. Episode 79: Al-Andalus

    Published: 3/16/2018

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A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved into a dominant world position.