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A narrative history podcast following the journeys of medieval travellers and their roles in larger historical events. Telling great stories, showing the interconnected nature of the medieval world, and meeting Mongols, Ottomans, Franciscans, merchants, ambassadors, and adventurers along the way.

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Nasir Khusraw 1: Wine, Waking, and the Journey to Jerusalem and Elsewhere 41:08

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Nasir Khusraw was around 40 years old when he experienced the vision that turned his life onto a new path and sent him out on the road in search, perhaps, of wisdom. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Hunsberger, Alice C. Nasir Khusraw, the Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher . Bloomsbury Academic, 2002. Khusraw, Nasir. Nāṣer-e Khosraw's Book of Travels , translated by Wheeler McIntosh Thackston. Bibliotheca Persica, 1986. Khusraw, Nasir. Diary of a journey through Syria and Palestine , translated by Guy le Strange. Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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A Medieval Christmas, 2024 23:35

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Happy Holidays! This episode is about festive "medieval" poetry. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Andrews, William. At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: A Study in Hirsute History . Lethe Press, 2008. Cook, Megan. "Dirtbag Medievalism," Avidly . July 14, 2021. Eco, Umberto. Travel in Hyperreality . Harcourt, inc, 1986. Jackson, Sophie. The Medieval Christmas. The History Press, 2013. Scott, Walter. Marmion. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1896. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Medieval Lives 10: Pietro d'Abano 37:38

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Born in the 13th century, Pietro d'Abano was referred to variously as “the Great Lombard,” “the Conciliator,” and, in at least one case, a “great necromancer.” This scholar and physician faced various troubles relating to heresy or sorcery, and stories swirl around him of calling on demons or magically making spent coins return to his purse. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Browning, Robert. The Complete Works of Robert Browning. Ohio University Press, 2007. Garin, Eugenio. History of Italian Philosophy, Volume 1 . Translated by Giorgio Pinton. Rodopi, 2008. Hasse, Dag Nikolaus. "Pietro d'Abano's 'Conciliator' and the Theory of the Soul in Paris," After the Condemnation of 1277: Philosophy and Theology at the University of Paris in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth Century . Edited by Jan A. Aertsen, Kent Emery, and Andreas Speer. Walter de Gruyter, 2013. Prioreschi, Plinio. A History of Medicine: Medieval Medicine . Horatius Press, 1996. Tafu, Pedro. Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439) . Translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926. Thorndike, Lynn. A History of Magic and Experimental Science Volume 2 . Columbia University Press, 1923. Touwaide, Alain. "Pietro d'Abano, De venenis : Reintroducing Greek Toxicology in Late Medieval Medicine." Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance . Edited by Philip Wexler. Academic Press, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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A Medieval Haunting in the Annales Fuldenses 33:05

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The Annales Fuldenses, or Annals of Fulda, is a source for 9th-century events in Carolingian lands: the incursions of the Northmen, fighting among the royal relatives, and omens in the sky. It also contains the story of an unfortunate village, an even more unfortunate villager, and the evil spirit that haunted both. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Source: The Annals of Fulda: Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II . Translated and annotated by Timothy Reuter. Manchester University Press, 1992. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Medieval Lives 9: John Crabbe 36:46

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The story of a 14th-century Flemish pirate, merchant, and adventurer, a man who took prizes at sea and took whatever side he needed to on land, crossing paths with various counts and kings as he went. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Barrell, Andrew D. M. Medieval Scotland . Cambridge University Press, 2000. Cushway, Graham. Edward III and the War at Sea: The English Navy, 1327-1377 . Boydell Press, 2011. Holinshed, Raphael. Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 5 . J. Johnson, et. al. 1808. Lucas, Henry S. “John Crabbe: Flemish Pirate, Merchant, and Adventurer.” Speculum 20, no. 3 (1945): 334–50. Rose, Susan. Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 . Routledge, 2003. Wilson, Ben. Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy . Orion, 2013. The Anonimalle Chronicle 1307 to 1334 . Edited by Wendy R. Childs and John Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Pedro Tafur 7: Losing Teeth, Losing Swords 38:24

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Our 15th-century Spanish traveller goes home, mixing with the imperial elite along the way. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Source: Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439) , translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Pedro Tafur 6: In the Baths and at the Fairs 40:10

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Our 15th-century traveller returns to Venice and goes overland into central and western Europe, making friends and catching up with some old ones along the way. He'll heal at the thermal baths, and there's talk of Bruges, Antwerp, medieval trade and textiles, and the fairs. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439) , translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926. Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 . University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Pedro Tafur 5: Doomed Empires and Slavery on the Black Sea 42:15

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Pedro Tafur ventures out from Constantinople to visit a sultan, an emperor, and the centre of the Black Sea slave trade. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439) , translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926. Barker, Hannah. That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Gregory, Timothy E. A History of Byzantium . John Wiley & Sons, 2010. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Pedro Tafur 4: Cyprus, Chios, and Constantinople 40:18

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Our 15th-century traveller dodges catastrophe on the Mediterranean and drops in on late-imperial Constantinople, where there's plenty of seafood and the roots of Pedro's family tree. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439) , translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926. Gregory, Timothy E. A History of Byzantium . John Wiley & Sons, 2010. Byron, Robert & Rice, David Talbot. The Birth of Western Painting. Routledge, 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Pedro Tafur 3: From Cyprus to Cairo 41:12

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As our Castilian traveller makes his roundabout way toward Mt Sinai, he finds ill-health but lots of help on Cyprus, while around Cairo he's struck by the street food and crocodiles. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439) , translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926. Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus , edited by Claude Delaval Cobham. Cambridge University Press, 1908. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Pedro Tafur 2: Busy Days in the Holy Land 37:39

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The journey of our 15th-century Castilian traveller continues, as Pedro Tafur leaves Venice and makes his way to Jerusalem, where there will be no shortage of things for him to see and do. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439) , translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926. Antrim, Zayde. “Jerusalem in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods.” Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem , edited by Suleiman Mourad, Bedross Der Matossian, and Naomi Koltun-Fromm, 102-109. New York: Routledge, 2018. Dalrymple, William. In Xanadu: A Quest . HarperCollins, 1990. Little, Donald P. “Mujīr Al-Dīn al-ʿUlaymī’s Vision of Jerusalem in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 115, no. 2 (1995): 237–47. Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice . Penguin, 2003. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Pedro Tafur 1: The Mediterranean Tour 39:43

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Pedro Tafur, a 15th-century Castilian, makes his way around Spain and Italy with lengthy stops in Genoa, Venice, and Rome, and generally has a pretty pleasant holiday. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439) , translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926. Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. Oxford University Press, 1989. Verità, Marco, Laura Speranza, Simone Porcinai, and Daniele Angellotto. “The Sacro Catino in Genoa: Analytical and Technological Investigations of a Unique Glass Vessel.” Journal of Glass Studies 60 (2018): 115–28. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Medieval Lives 8: Giovanni Fontana 36:37

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Giovanni Fontana was a 15th-century Italian engineer and inventor. His designs included everything from systems for retrieving sunken ships and automating the defence of fortifications to measuring time and producing music. He created locks, clocks, and magic lanterns. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: Fontana, Giovanni. Bellicorum instrumentorum liber cum figuris... Digitized at https://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/inventiconCod.icon.%20242.html Gilbert, Bennett. “The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420,” Public Domain Review . 2018. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dreams-of-an-inventor-in-1420/ Grafton, Anthony. “The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine,” in Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life , edited by Jessica Riskin . University of Chicago Press, 2007. Grafton, Anthony. Magic and Technology in Early Modern Europe. Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 2005. Grafton, Anthony. Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa. Harvard University Press, 2023. Rossi, Cesare and Russo, Flavio. Ancient Engineers' Inventions: Precursors of the Present. Springer, 2016. Sparavigna, A.C. “Giovanni de la Fontana, Engineer and Magician.” Cornell University Library, 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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The Fire at Louvain 39:11

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In the late-summer of 1914, a city burns and its university library with it. Unusually for this podcast, the story takes us into WWI, but there are medieval connections to the story of Louvain (Leuven) and what happened when the German army came to town. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources : Bazydlo, Angela. “Manuscript lost in WWI fire turns up in Clark Archives.” https://clarknow.clarku.edu/2021/08/30/manuscript-lost-in-wwi-fire-turns-up-in-clark-archives/ Battles, Matthew. Library: An Unquiet History. W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. Battles, Matthew. “Knowledge on Fire.” The American Scholar 72, no. 3 (2003): 35–51. Bouwman, André. “Book burning in Louvain, 1914.” https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/book-burning-in-louvain-1914 Delannoy, Paul. “The Library at the University of Louvain,” The Nineteenth Century , Vol. LXXVII - No. 59, p. 1061 May 1915. Derez, Mark. “The Flames of Louvain: a Library as a Cultural Icon and a Political Vehicle,” What do we lose when we lose a library? Proceedings of the conference held at the KU Leuven 9-11 September 2015. Gusejnova, Dina. “Librarians as Agents of German Foreign Policy and the Cultural Consequences of the First World War.” The Historical Journal 66, no. 4 (2023): 864–86. Kipling, Rudyard. “In Aid of Recruiting.” https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/readers-guide/rg_speeches_29.htm Kramer, Alan. Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War . Oxford University Press, 2008. Matin, A. Michael. “‘The Hun is at the Gate!’: Historicizing Kipling's Militaristic Rhetoric, From the Imperial Periphery to the National Center: Part Two: The French, Russian, and German Threats to Great Britain.” Studies in the Novel 31, no. 4 (1999): 432–70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29533357. Ovenden, Richard. Burning the Books. Harvard University Press, 2020. Ovenden, Richard. “One of Europe’s Great Libraries Didn’t Stand a Chance… In Either of the World Wars.” https://lithub.com/one-of-europes-great-libraries-didnt-stand-a-chance-in-either-of-the-world-wars/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Fernao Mendes Pinto 10: Lisbon at Last 34:44

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The Fernao Mendes Pinto story reaches its conclusion, and he finally reaches Portugal once more. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here . I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social , Twitter @circus_human , Instagram @humancircuspod , and I have some things on Redbubble . Sources: The Travels of Mendes Pinto , edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz. University of Chicago Press, 1989. Hart, Thomas R. “Style and Substance in the Peregrination.” Portuguese Studies 2 (1986). Hart, Thomas R. “True or False: Problems of the ‘Peregrination.’” Portuguese Studies 13 (1997). Rubiés, Joan Pau. “Real and Imaginary Dialogues in the Jesuit Mission of Sixteenth-Century Japan.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 55, no. 2/3 (2012). Rubiés, Joan Pau. “The Oriental Voices of Mendes Pinto, or the Traveller as Ethnologist in Portuguese India.” Portuguese Studies 10 (1994). Spence, Jonathan D. The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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