The French History Podcast
288 episodes — Page 5 of 6
53 – The Kingdom of God
Charlemagne wanted to create a righteous empire and changed Christianity forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
52 – Charlemagne’s War Machine
An episode all about Charlemagne's military. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Vaux-le-Vicomte: Power, Greed, Corruption and Versailles by Sophie Higgerson
Sophie Higgerson talks about a mansion so grand it made King Louis XIV jealous and inspired Versailles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
51 – Charlemagne: Becoming an Emperor
Charlemagne was already a king. Now he ascends still further and becomes the first emperor in the west in centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
French Mythmaking of King Arthur by Aaron Kestle
Aaron Kestle talks about how French mythmakers told stories of King Arthur and how he wasn't just an English hero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
50 – Charlemagne: Conquering Europe
Charlemagne launches wars in all directions and wins them all. Mostly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
49 – Charlemagne: Becoming a King
Charlemagne and his brother vie for power, but only one will become a legend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The French Far Right in the 1920-1930s with Dr. Chris Millington
Dr. Chris Millington talks about the rise of the far-right in France during the 1920s-1930s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
48 – Between Giants
Pepin the short seizes the throne and founds a new dynasty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Marseillais Jews and Inter-Faith Commercial Relations During the Angevin Dynasty by Arazoo Ferozan
Arazoo Ferozan talks about Jewish merchant networks based in medieval Marseille. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
47 – The Battle of Poitiers
What really happened at The Battle of Poitiers. Was it the cataclysm so many people think it was? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
France and its Empire during World War 2 with Dr. Chris Millington
Dr. Chris Millington talks about the French Empire in WW2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
46 – France’s First Dynasty
A retrospective on France's 'First Dynasty.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
French ‘Corsairing’ in the Americas during the War of the Spanish Succession by Mike LaMonica
Mike LaMonica talks all about French naval adventure-seekers in the 17th-18th centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
45 – The End of the Merovingian Dynasty
The House of Merovech ends with a whimper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Prefect’s Purse-String: Jean Moulin and the Rex Mission by David A. Foulk
David A. Foulk tells the story of resistance hero Jean Moulin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Occupation of Northern France in WWI with Dr. James E. Connolly
Dr. James E. Connolly talks about the Occupation in the Nord 1914 to 1918. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
44 – The Last Great Merovingian Kings
Clothar II and Dagobert I rule as the last great kings of Merovingian Francia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
43 – The Medieval Transformation Part 5: Medicine and Mythology
A short episode on early medieval myths and medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Syria and the French Empire from WWI to Present by Patrick Higgins
Patrick Higgins details the complex & contentious history of French Syria. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
42 – The Medieval Transformation Part 4: The Salic Law
The Franks most important law and the foundation of their society is discussed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Before Trans: Three Incredible Lives with Dr. Rachel Mesch
Dr. Rachel Mesch discusses three 19th century Parisian writers who transgressed against gender norms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
41 – The Medieval Transformation Part 3: Daily Life
A episode exploring daily life in post-Roman Gaul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Four Royal Women’s Entangled Lives by Keira Morgan
Keira Morgan talks about four aristocratic women's remarkable lives and impact on France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
40 – Great Merovingian Women
A talk about the great Merovingian women of the Frankish kingdom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cistercian Monks, the Albigensian Crusade, and the French Conquest of Occitania by Leland Renato Grigoli
Dr. Leland Grigoli tells the tragic story of the Albigensian Crusade & the political implications of the holy war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Navigating Paris: What’s the flâneur got to do with it?
Lauren Quigley discusses a uniquely French and Parisian type of city-dweller and how they navigate the urban landscape of the beautiful city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Napoleon, Egypt and the Birth of Modern Egyptology with Dr. Tara Sewell-Lasater
Dr. Tara Sewell-Lasater talks Napoleon, the Rosetta Stone & the Egyptomania that gripped France, unraveled ancient secrets and created modern dilemmas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
39 – The Epic of Brunhilda
Two rival queens fight a 50-year war that tears apart the Frankish world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
French History Myths with the Fake History Hunter, Jo Teeuwisse
The Fake History Hunter and I smash myths about French history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
38 – The Long-haired Kings
The sons of Clovis vie for supremacy, threatening the kingom their father left to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Intelligent Speech 2020 (audio only)
My talk for the Intelligent Speech Conference 2020. Let's talk camels! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
France in Occupied Berlin with Iain MacGregor
A discussion with Iain MacGregor about the French Occupation in West Berlin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
37 – The Medieval Transformation Part 2: The Birth and Spread of Monasteries
In an age of violence, the penitent flee from society and draw closer to God and each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Louise Michel & the Radical Women of the 19th Century with Dr. Steve Shone
Dr. Steve Shone talks about the fantastical life of a radical revolutionary woman and her impact on world feminism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
36 – The Medieval Transformation Part 1: Cults, Miracles and Saints
In an age of anxiety early Christians developed cults to their saints. Power, politics and the fear of God remake Gaul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
35 – The Last Saints of Gaul
Hear about the last saints of Gaul before the Frankish invasion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
34 – Gaul No More
The Western Roman Empire falls. Gaul is no more, & three kingdoms vie to replace it. Antiquity ends & Clovis turns the land into the first great medieval kingdom: Francia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
33 – The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
The Scourge of God descends upon Gaul. Aetius must rally what remains of Western Rome and unite with his nemesis Theodoric of the Visigoths. Together, they will fight Western Rome’s last great battle against Attila and his Huns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
32 – Barbaria
Gaul is a battleground & Rome is on the retreat. The Visigoths, Burgundians and Franks vie for supremacy while Gauls are trapped in between them...yet maybe 'Barbaria' isn't as bad as it seems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
31 – The Long War: Rome and Francia
The Huns march westward, pushing uncountable numbers of Germans towards Rome. The Romanized Franks have to defend Gaul while the empire crumbles. But the more successful the Franks are the more they realize Rome needs them more than they need it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Revolutionary Brothers: Lafayette & Jefferson with Dr. Tom Chaffin
In this interview with Dr. Tom Chaffin, we discuss his new book Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations. We talk about Lafayette and Jefferson's work in founding America, writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and their long friendship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 – God and the Gauls
Christianity finally comes center-stage! During the 2nd-3rd centuries Gaul gets a host of saints and miracles and becomes an important part of the Christian world. But state persecutions and heresy threaten the faithful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 – Life in a Crumbling Empire
What was life like for ordinary people in 4th century Gallia? In this episode we're covering men, women, children, the family, culture, entertainment, language, medicine, the environment, food, barbarians & everything else that made up the lives of the Gauls during the Late Roman Empire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Black Venus: African Women in 19th Century France with Dr. Robin Mitchell
EIn this special episode, I interview Dr. Robin Mitchell on her new book Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France. We talk about three African women, Ourika, Sarah Baartmann and Jeanne Duval, and how each women reflected and embodied different anxieties felt by France in its tumultuous 19th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
28 – In This Sign You Shall Conquer
Galerius rules from the East and Constantine fears for his life. One night the young man flees to Gaul to rejoin his father in the west. When Constantius dies his son becomes emperor. In the chaos that follows the ambitious man looks to the heavens and receives divine revelation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
27 – The Empire Strikes Back
The year is 285. Diocletian is the undisputed master of a Roman world in tatters. Gaul has fallen completely apart as its own people ravage the land looking for food while German hordes poor in. Diocleatian sends two emperors to save Gaul, but even if they can bring peace it will never be the same as Celtic Gaul declines and the Franks rise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26 – The Gallic Empire
Rome is falling apart. It's being invaded along its entire northern and eastern borders. Emperors are assassinated. Usurper generals rise up every year to seize power. Plague devastates the empire. Out of this chaos a Gallic military commander decides to create a new Celtic empire and revive a free Gaul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 -The Ancient Superpower and its Decline
Rome ascends to unprecedented glory by the time of Antoninus Pius. Then the unthinkable happens and the ancient superpower is hit with one disaster after another. Plague, civil war and invasion bring the glorious empire to its knees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Phoney War with Cameron Zinsou
Dr. Cameron Zinsou talks about the tense waiting period known as 'The Phoney War.' Zinsou argues that despite no large-scale military engagements occuring a whole lot happened. French society had to reorganize for total war and that the political, social and military changes presaged the occupation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices