Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

High & Late Middle Ages

96 Episodes 25 Series 109 Figures 62 Events 283 Books 196 Authors

Covering roughly the 11th–15th centuries, the High & Late Middle Ages era treats political consolidation, religious conflict, urban and commercial growth, and the expansion of empires. Series include "1066" (political turmoil and the Norman Conquest), "Amsterdam" (the city's development from a 13th‑century fishing village to a major financial centre), "Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade" (heresy and crusade in Languedoc), "Genghis Khan" (Temüjin’s rise and the Mongol Empire), and "Henry IV" (usurpation and contested kingship). Episodes cover Harun al‑Rashid and Baghdad, the Princes in the Tower, Macbeth’s historical basis, Anglo‑French truces and Exeter 1067. Discussed figures and works include Innocent III, Henry IV, Vlad the Impaler, Ibn al‑Haytham, The War on Heresy and Worlds of Arthur.

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2021

12 episodes

Burgundy: Europe's forgotten superpower

Dec 16, 2021

This episode is an extended interview with Bart (van Leeuw) about the Dukes of Burgundy and the rise and fall of the Bu…

Game of Thrones

Nov 27, 2021

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Game of Thrones as a cultural phenomenon and a lens on popula…

Aztecs

Nov 27, 2021

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian Camilla Townsend about her book The Fifth Sun: A New History of t…

1066

Nov 27, 2021

In this episode Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland discuss 1066 and the Norman Conquest, treating it as both a dramatic …

King Arthur

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Dominic Samuruk and Tom Holland debate the historicity and cultural afterlife of King Arthur. They evaluate early…

World Cup of Kings & Queens - Part 2

Nov 27, 2021
World Cup of Kings and Queens · Part 3

This episode of The Rest Is History runs through the hosts' "World Cup of Kings and Queens of England," recapping the e…

The Norse Sagas

Nov 27, 2021

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host Eleanor Rosamond Barraclough to discuss Viking voyages, the Icelandic sagas and …

Macbeth

Nov 27, 2021

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the real history behind Shakespeare's Macbeth, contrasting the effective 11th…

Medieval Science

Nov 27, 2021

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host historian Seb Falk to discuss medieval science and to challenge …

The UK’s Best Churches

Nov 27, 2021

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Rachel Morley, director of the Friends of Friendless Ch…

Conspiracy Theories

Nov 27, 2021

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss conspiracy theories across history and how they both reflect …

Magna Carta

Nov 27, 2021

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Magna Carta with guest Ted Vallance, Professor of History at Roehampton and a…
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Series in this era

25 series

Historical figures

109 tagged

Edward III of England

25 episodes

William I of England (William the Conqueror / William, Duke of Normandy)

23 episodes

Richard II of England

20 episodes

Harold Godwinson (Harold II of England)

18 episodes

Henry V of England

18 episodes

Edward the Confessor

16 episodes

Henry IV of England (Henry Bolingbroke)

16 episodes

Harald Sigurdsson (Harald Hardrada, Harald III of Norway)

15 episodes

Cnut the Great (Canute)

13 episodes

Edward, the Black Prince (Edward of Woodstock)

13 episodes

Edward I of England

11 episodes

Richard III of England

11 episodes

Edward II of England

9 episodes

Henry VI of England

9 episodes

Geoffrey Chaucer

8 episodes

Henry II of England

8 episodes

Thomas Becket

8 episodes

Edward IV of England

7 episodes

Henry VII of England (Henry Tudor)

7 episodes

King John (John of England)

7 episodes

Richard I of England

7 episodes

Æthelred II of England (Ethelred the Unready)

7 episodes

Henry III of England

6 episodes

Pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand)

6 episodes

Snorri Sturluson

6 episodes

Thomas Walsingham

6 episodes

Joan of Arc

5 episodes

John the Fearless (Duke of Burgundy)

5 episodes

Bernard of Clairvaux

4 episodes

Charles II of Navarre (Charles the Bad)

4 episodes

Charles VI of France

4 episodes

Edgar Ætheling (Edgar Atheling)

4 episodes

Edward V of England

4 episodes

Emma of Normandy (Queen of England)

4 episodes

Empress Matilda

4 episodes

Harold Harefoot

4 episodes

Innocent III (Pope Innocent III)

4 episodes

John Wycliffe

4 episodes

John of Gaunt

4 episodes

John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster

4 episodes

Lambert Simnel

4 episodes

Margaret of Anjou

4 episodes

William of Poitiers

4 episodes

Yaroslav the Wise (Grand Prince of Kiev)

4 episodes

Basil II (Basil the Bulgar Slayer)

3 episodes

Catherine of Siena

3 episodes

Charles, Duke of Orléans

3 episodes

David II of Scotland

3 episodes

Edith Swan-neck

3 episodes

Edith of Wessex

3 episodes

Edmund Mortimer

3 episodes

Edwin (Earl of Mercia)

3 episodes

Genghis Khan (Temüjin)

3 episodes

Godwin, Earl of Wessex

3 episodes

Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

3 episodes

Henry of Huntingdon

3 episodes

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester

3 episodes

Jan van Eyck

3 episodes

John II of France

3 episodes

Morcar (Morcar, Earl of Northumbria)

3 episodes

Olaf II of Norway (Olaf Haraldsson / Olaf the Stout)

3 episodes

Philip VI of France

3 episodes

Philip the Bold (Duke of Burgundy)

3 episodes

Philip the Good (Duke of Burgundy)

3 episodes

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick

3 episodes

Robin Hood

3 episodes

Roger Mortimer

3 episodes

Sir John Oldcastle

3 episodes

Stigand (Archbishop of Canterbury)

3 episodes

Tostig Godwinson

3 episodes

Vladimir I of Kiev (Vladimir the Great / Volodymyr)

3 episodes

William of Malmesbury

3 episodes

Alfred (son of Æthelred the Unready)

2 episodes

Charles VII of France

2 episodes

Dante Alighieri

2 episodes

Edmund II of England (Edmund Ironside)

2 episodes

Eleanor of Aquitaine

2 episodes

Elizabeth Woodville

2 episodes

Geoffrey of Monmouth

2 episodes

Henry I of England

2 episodes

Henry Percy (Harry Hotspur)

2 episodes

Isabella of France (Queen Isabella)

2 episodes

John Ball

2 episodes

Margaret Beaufort

2 episodes

Matilda of Flanders

2 episodes

Michael Psellus

2 episodes

Murasaki Shikibu

2 episodes

Philip II of France

2 episodes

Pope Alexander (Alexander II)

2 episodes

Simon de Montfort

2 episodes

Stephen (King of England)

2 episodes

Thomas Aquinas

2 episodes

Wat Tyler

2 episodes

William II of England (William Rufus)

2 episodes

Adrian IV (Pope)

1 episode

Edmund Ironside

1 episode

Francis Young

1 episode

Francis of Assisi

1 episode

Galahad

1 episode

Giovanni Boccaccio

1 episode

Henry the Navigator (Infante Henry of Portugal)

1 episode

Jan Hus

1 episode

Kublai Khan

1 episode

Madoc (Prince of Gwynedd)

1 episode

Maid Marian

1 episode

Marco Polo

1 episode

Robert I of Scotland (Robert the Bruce)

1 episode

Saint George

1 episode

St Michael (archangel)

1 episode

Historical events

62 tagged

Hundred Years' War (1337–1453, Western Europe)

29 episodes

Battle of Hastings (1066)

18 episodes

Norman Conquest

14 episodes

Battle of Agincourt (25 October 1415)

13 episodes

Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)

12 episodes

Battle of Crécy (26 August 1346)

11 episodes

Black Death (c.1347–1351)

11 episodes

Battle of Poitiers (19 September 1356)

10 episodes

Peasants' Revolt (1381, England)

10 episodes

Albigensian Crusade

7 episodes

Wars of the Roses (1455–1487)

7 episodes

Battle of Bosworth

5 episodes

Battle of Shrewsbury (1403)

5 episodes

First Crusade (1095–1099)

5 episodes

Battle of Sluys (1340)

4 episodes

Siege of Calais (1346–1347)

4 episodes

Siege of Harfleur (1415)

4 episodes

Treaty of Troyes (1420)

4 episodes

Wars of the Roses

4 episodes

Battle of Bannockburn (1314)

3 episodes

Battle of Homildon Hill (Humbleton Hill) (1402)

3 episodes

Battle of Nicopolis (1396)

3 episodes

Canute's (Cnut) conquest of England (1016)

3 episodes

Coronation of William I (25 December 1066)

3 episodes

Death of Edward the Confessor (5 January 1066, England)

3 episodes

Fall of Constantinople (1453)

3 episodes

Gregorian Reform (11th century)

3 episodes

Norman conquest of Sicily (late 11th century)

3 episodes

Anarchy (civil war between Stephen and Matilda, c.1135–1153)

2 episodes

Avignon Papacy (14th century)

2 episodes

Battle of Halidon Hill (1333, England/Scotland)

2 episodes

Battle of Manzikert (1071)

2 episodes

Battle of Wakefield (1460)

2 episodes

Crusades

2 episodes

Death of Edward IV (1483)

2 episodes

Deposition of Richard II (1399)

2 episodes

Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (1009, Jerusalem)

2 episodes

Establishment and service of the Varangian Guard (from 988, Byzantium)

2 episodes

Expulsion of the Jews from England (1290)

2 episodes

Founding of the Mongol Empire (1206)

2 episodes

Magna Carta (1215)

2 episodes

Mongol conquest of China (13th century)

2 episodes

Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258, Baghdad)

2 episodes

Reconquista (Spain)

2 episodes

Sack of Constantinople (1204, Constantinople)

2 episodes

Scottish Wars of Independence (late 13th–14th centuries)

2 episodes

Second Crusade (1147–1149)

2 episodes

St. Brice's Day massacre (13 November 1002, England)

2 episodes

Trial and Execution of Joan of Arc (1431)

2 episodes

Viking Age (8th–11th centuries)

2 episodes

Walk to Canossa

2 episodes

Battle at Nisor (off western Sweden) (described in saga sources)

1 episode

Cnut's conquest of England (1016)

1 episode

Conquest of Granada (1492)

1 episode

Harrying of the North (1069–1070)

1 episode

Mongol conquests (13th century)

1 episode

Mongol incursions into Kievan Rus (early 13th century)

1 episode

Norman invasion of Ireland (1169–1171)

1 episode

Sieges of Constantinople

1 episode

Third Crusade (c. 1189–1192)

1 episode

Viking settlements in Ireland (Viking Age, c. 9th–11th centuries)

1 episode

Western Schism / Great Schism (1378–1417)

1 episode

Books

283 tagged

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

8 episodes

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Author: Tom Holland

8 episodes

Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

Author: Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln

6 episodes

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland

5 episodes

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

5 episodes

The Da Vinci Code

Author: Dan Brown

5 episodes

Henry V

Author: William Shakespeare

4 episodes

The Last English King

Author: Julian Rathbone

4 episodes

1066 and All That

Author: W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman

3 episodes

A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

Author: Mark Gregory Pegg

3 episodes

Adventures in Time: Fury of the Vikings

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

3 episodes

Beowulf

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

3 episodes

Domesday Book

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

3 episodes

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

3 episodes

Sir Nigel

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

3 episodes

The Arabian Nights

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

3 episodes

Who Dares Wins

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

3 episodes

A Distant Mirror

Author: Barbara Tuchman

2 episodes

Account of Ibn Fadlan

Author: Ahmad ibn Fadlan

2 episodes

Angels and Demons

Author: Dan Brown

2 episodes

Blood Feud

Author: Rosemary Sutcliff

2 episodes

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

From Ritual to Romance

Author: Jesse Weston

2 episodes

Heimskringla

Author: Snorri Sturluson

2 episodes

Henry VI, Part 3

Author: William Shakespeare

2 episodes

I, Claudius

Author: Robert Graves

2 episodes

In the Shadow of the Sword

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

Inferno

Author: Dan Brown

2 episodes

Ivanhoe

Author: Walter Scott

2 episodes

Labyrinth

Author: Kate Moss

2 episodes

Laughing Till I Die

Author: Tom Shippey

2 episodes

Le Morte d'Arthur

Author: Sir Thomas Malory

2 episodes

Mein Kampf

Author: Adolf Hitler

2 episodes

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

Poetic Edda

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

Richard II

Author: William Shakespeare

2 episodes

Richard III

Author: William Shakespeare

2 episodes

The Divine Comedy

Author: Dante Alighieri

2 episodes

The Hero with the Thousand Faces

Author: Joseph Campbell

2 episodes

The Last Viking

Author: Don Holway

2 episodes

The Pillow Book

Author: Sei Shōnagon

2 episodes

The Rest is History Returns: An A–Z of Historical Curiosities

Author: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

The Rest is History: History's Most Curious Questions Answered

Author: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

The Saga of King Harold

Author: Snorri Sturluson

2 episodes

The Secret History

Author: Procopius (Procopius of Caesarea)

2 episodes

The Tale of Genji

Author: Murasaki Shikibu

2 episodes

The Viking Way

Author: Neil Price

2 episodes

The Waning of the Middle Ages

Author: Huizinger

2 episodes

Tom Brown's School Days

Author: Thomas Hughes

2 episodes

1066, Does the Date Still Matter?

Author: David Bates

1 episode

15 Decisive Battles of the World

Author: Edward Creasy

1 episode

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

A Man for All Seasons

Author: Robert Bolt

1 episode

A Murder Is Announced

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888–1889

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

A Pocket Full of Rye

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

A Radical History of Britain

Author: Ted Vallance

1 episode

A Revelation of Purgatory

Author: an anchoress of Winchester (unnamed)

1 episode

A Room with a View

Author: E. M. Forster

1 episode

A Short History of Japan

Author: Chris Harding

1 episode

A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang

Author: Mélodie Doumy

1 episode

A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) (series)

Author: George R. R. Martin

1 episode

A Study in Scarlet

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

A Thousand Best Churches

Author: John Betjeman

1 episode

Account by William of Poitiers (unnamed in transcript)

Author: William of Poitiers

1 episode

Acts of Oblivion

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Acts of the Apostle s

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Agincourt: A New History

Author: Anne Curry

1 episode

Almagest

Author: Ptolemy

1 episode

An American Melodrama

Author: Lewis Chester; Godfrey Hodgson; Bruce Page

1 episode

An Officer and a Spy

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Annals of Ulster

Author: Ruaidhrí Ó Luinín and Others

1 episode

Armachristi

Author: Theoderica Zwerken (scribe identified in the manuscript)

1 episode

Arthur trilogy (King Arthur novels)

Author: Bernard Cornwell

1 episode

Autobiography (unnamed)

Author: Gina Davis

1 episode

Baghdad during the Abbasid caliphate

Author: Guy Lestrange

1 episode

Bayeux Tapestry

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Becket

Author: Jean Anouilh

1 episode

Biography of Richard III (unspecified title in transcript)

Author: Paul Murray Kendall

1 episode

Brief Lives

Author: John Aubrey

1 episode

Brothers York

Author: Tom Penn

1 episode

Buddenbrooks

Author: Thomas Mann

1 episode

Bull Laudabiliter

Author: Pope Adrian IV (issuer)

1 episode

Bulldog Drummond (series)

Author: H. C. McNeile (pen name: Sapper)

1 episode

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Author: Dee Brown

1 episode

Butler's Lives of the Saints

Author: Alban Butler

1 episode

Carmen

Author: Prosper Mérimée

1 episode

Carmen (The Song of the Battle of Hastings)

Author: Unknown (probably a bishop who served Matilda of Flanders as her chaplain)

1 episode

Casso de la Cruzada (Song of the Crusade)

Author: William of Tudela

1 episode

Charles Dickens biography (unspecified title)

Author: Claire Tomalin

1 episode

Charter of the Forest

Author: Various

1 episode

Children of Ash and Elm

Author: Neil Price

1 episode

Chronicle (early 13th century account mentioning Pope Joan)

Author: Jean de Mailly

1 episode

Chronicle of Prosper of Aquitaine

Author: Prosper of Aquitaine

1 episode

Chronicle of the Popes and Emperors

Author: Martin of Poland

1 episode

Codex Regis (the King's Codex - Konungsbók)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Collected Ghost Stories (introduction)

Author: Daryl Jones

1 episode

Confessio Amantis

Author: John Gower

1 episode

Corsa, A European Life

Author: Marian Turner

1 episode

Creative Mythology

Author: Joseph Campbell

1 episode

Cursed Kings

Author: Jonathan Sumption

1 episode

Dan Jones's New History of the Middle Ages

Author: Dan Jones

1 episode

De revolutionibus

Author: Copernicus

1 episode

Definitive recent biography of William (unspecified title)

Author: David Douglas

1 episode

Diamond Sutra (printed edition)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Diaries of Kenneth Williams

Author: Kenneth Williams

1 episode

Diary of a Nobody / Diary of Samuel Pepys consolidation (Pepys kept as separate canonical)

Author: Samuel Pepys

1 episode

Dictionary of the Khazars

Author: Milorad Pavic

1 episode

Dissertation (1647)

Author: David Blondel

1 episode

Divas and Palpa

Author: Anonymous

1 episode

Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes

1 episode

Donation of Constantine

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Egil's Saga

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

England Arise

Author: Judith Barker

1 episode

Epic of Gilgamesh

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Epic/Sagas of Snorri Sturluson

Author: Snorri Sturluson

1 episode

Essay by Clifford Rogers

Author: Clifford Rogers

1 episode

Europe's First Revolution

Author: R. I. Moore

1 episode

Face of Battle

Author: John Keegan

1 episode

Fox's Book of Martyrs

Author: Unknown

1 episode

George III (The Last King of America)

Author: Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Gone with the Wind

Author: Margaret Mitchell

1 episode

Grave Concerns, the Follies and Folklore of Robin Hood's Final Resting Place

Author: Kai Roberts

1 episode

Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Greek thought, Arabic culture

Author: Dmitri Goutas

1 episode

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Author: J. K. Rowling

1 episode

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Author: J. K. Rowling

1 episode

Hebrew grammar compiled by Christian monks

Author: Ramsay Abbey

1 episode

Henry IV, Part I

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry IV, Part II

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry VI, Part 1

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry VI, Part 2

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

History of Britain Between the Wars (referred to as "English History")

Author: A. J. P. Taylor

1 episode

History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

History of the Kings of Britain

Author: Geoffrey of Monmouth

1 episode

History of the Normans

Author: Amartas

1 episode

Hollinshead's chronicle

Author: Ralph Hollinshead

1 episode

Holy Feast and Holy Fast, the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women

Author: Caroline Walker Bynum

1 episode

How to Survive the Titanic

Author: Francis Wilson

1 episode

In Search of Lost Time

Author: Marcel Proust

1 episode

Invisible Cities

Author: Italo Calvino

1 episode

Ivanhoe

Author: Sir Walter Scott

1 episode

J'Accuse

Author: Émile Zola

1 episode

Jane Eyre

Author: Charlotte Brontë

1 episode

Jeeves and Wooster (series)

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

Joan of Arc, The Image of Female Heroism

Author: Marina Warner

1 episode

King James Bible

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

King Leopold's Ghost

Author: Adam Hochschild

1 episode

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Author: Nikolai Leskov

1 episode

Ladybird books

Author: L. Du Garde Peach (and various)

1 episode

Lancelot (romance)

Author: Chrétien de Troyes

1 episode

Laughing Shall I Die

Author: Tom Shippey

1 episode

Laxdæla saga (Laxdale Saga)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Les Rois Maudits (The Accursed Kings)

Author: Maurice Druon

1 episode

Liber Regalis

Author: Unknown (medieval liturgical manuscript; held at Westminster Abbey)

1 episode

Life of Catherine of Alexandria (contained in Red Book of Bath)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Life of Malachy of Armah

Author: Bernard of Clairvaux

1 episode

Little Dorrit

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Little Englanders

Author: Alwyn Turner

1 episode

Lives of the Great Artist

Author: Giorgio Vasari

1 episode

Livre des Quatre Dames

Author: Anna Chatier

1 episode

Madame Bovary

Author: Gustave Flaubert

1 episode

Magna Carta

Author: David Carpenter

1 episode

Mary Poppins

Author: P. L. Travers

1 episode

Medieval Manuscripts Blog

Author: Julian Harrison

1 episode

Military manual

Author: Cacauamanos

1 episode

Njáls saga (Brennu-Njáls saga)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Northumbrians

Author: Dan Jackson

1 episode

Origins of the European Economy

Author: Michael McCormick

1 episode

Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi

Author: Merrill Kaplan

1 episode

Pangaban (9th-century poem)

Author: Anonymous

1 episode

Papillon

Author: Henri Charrière

1 episode

Parsifal (opera)

Author: Richard Wagner

1 episode

Penguin Monarchs biography of Elizabeth I

Author: Helen Castor

1 episode

Perceval (Le Conte de Graal)

Author: Chrétien de Troyes

1 episode

Perfect King

Author: Ian Mortimer

1 episode

Piers Plowman

Author: William Langland

1 episode

Preciptice

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Predatory Kinship: The Creation of Norman Power

Author: Eleanor Searle

1 episode

Prose Edda

Author: Snorri Sturluson

1 episode

Psalms (Book of Psalms)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Psalms (Hebrew manuscript, annotated)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Quest of the Holy Grail

Author: Anonymous

1 episode

Ravenna

Author: Judith Heron

1 episode

Red Book of Bath

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Revelations of Divine Love

Author: Julian of Norwich

1 episode

Richard III

Author: Paul Murray Kendall

1 episode

River Kings

Author: Kat Jarman

1 episode

Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

1 episode

Russian Primary Chronicle

Author: Nestor (as mentioned in transcript)

1 episode

Russian Primary Chronicle

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Saga of Eric the Red

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Saga of Gretir

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Saga of Gísli

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Saga of the Greenlanders

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Salammbô

Author: Gustave Flaubert

1 episode

Schindler's List

Author: Thomas Keneally

1 episode

Series of Middle English sermons (anonymous Franciscan friar)

Author: Anonymous

1 episode

Servants

Author: Lucy Lethbridge

1 episode

Seven Champions of Christendom

Author: Richard Johnson

1 episode

Shahnameh

Author: Fadousi

1 episode

Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio)

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

Song of Songs (biblical poem)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

State of Emergency

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Story Worlds of Robin Hood

Author: Lesley Coote

1 episode

Study of the murder of William of Norwich

Author: E. M. Rose

1 episode

Talking of Joan

Author: Marina Warner

1 episode

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Author: Robert Burton

1 episode

The Children of Ashen Elm

Author: Neil Price

1 episode

The Dark Is Rising

Author: Susan Cooper

1 episode

The Daughter of Time

Author: Josephine Tay

1 episode

The Death Eaters or something

Author: Michael Crichton

1 episode

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (standardized)

Author: Edward Gibbon

1 episode

The Downfall and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington

Author: Anthony Monday

1 episode

The Dragon in the West

Author: Daniel Ogden

1 episode

The Eagle and the Heart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

Author: Helen Castor

1 episode

The Eagle in the Heart

Author: Helen Castor

1 episode

The Embarrassment of Riches

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

The Faerie Queene

Author: Edmund Spenser

1 episode

The Ferry Queen

Author: Edmund Spencer

1 episode

The French Revolution

Author: Hilaire Belloc

1 episode

The Gold of Rennes (Le Trésor de Rennes)

Author: Gérard de Sed

1 episode

The Golden Road

Author: William Dalrymple

1 episode

The Guns of August

Author: Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Author: José Saramago

1 episode

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

The Hundred Years War (first volume)

Author: Jonathan Sumption

1 episode

The Iliad

Author: Homer

1 episode

The Institutes

Author: Sir Edward Cook

1 episode

The Interest

Author: Michael Taylor

1 episode

The Legend of King Arthur

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich

Author: Thomas of Monmouth

1 episode

The Lord of the Rings

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

1 episode

The Man in the Moon

Author: Francis Goodwin

1 episode

The Man in the Moon; or, a Discourse of a Voyage Thither

Author: Francis Godwin

1 episode

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Nation's Favorite Churches (Songs of Praise)

Author: Andrew Barr

1 episode

The Neophiliacs

Author: Christopher Booker

1 episode

The New Roman Empire

Author: Anthony Kaldellis

1 episode

The Nobles' Revolt

Author: John Adamson

1 episode

The Odyssey

Author: Homer

1 episode

The Old Boys

Author: David Turner

1 episode

The Parliament of Fowls

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

1 episode

The Paston Letters

Author: John Fenn, editor

1 episode

The Pendulum Years

Author: Bernard Levin

1 episode

The Perfect King

Author: Ian Mortimer

1 episode

The Politicos

Author: Matthew Josephson

1 episode

The President Makers

Author: Matthew Josephson

1 episode

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Author: Unknown; plagiarised from various European authors

1 episode

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

Author: Toby Wilkinson

1 episode

The Road to Miklagard

Author: Henry Treese (as mentioned in transcript)

1 episode

The Robber Barons

Author: Matthew Josephson

1 episode

The Sign of Four

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

The Song of Roland

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

The Sphere

Author: John of Sacrobosco

1 episode

The Sword in the Stone

Author: T. H. White

1 episode

The Tailor of Panama

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

The Thief Who Stole Nothing

Author: David A. Goodman

1 episode

The War on Heresy

Author: R. A. Moore

1 episode

The War on Heresy

Author: R. I. Moore

1 episode

The White Company

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

The Witch Cult in Western Europe

Author: Margaret Murray

1 episode

The Wolf Age

Author: Tore Skaer

1 episode

The World of the Shining Prince

Author: Ivan Morris

1 episode

The Year of King Leah

Author: James Shapiro

1 episode

The Young Man's Valentine Writer

Author: Samuel Carter Hall

1 episode

Thermidor and the French Revolution

Author: Colin Jones

1 episode

Thunder at Twilight

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

Tomb with a View

Author: Peter Ross

1 episode

Translation of the documents relating to Joan's trial (English translation)

Author: Daniel Hobbins

1 episode

Trilingual Hebrew–Latin–French dictionary (Ramsey Abbey manuscript)

Author: Ramsay Abbey

1 episode

Unique life of King Arthur (Middle English verse, contained in Red Book of Bath)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

When Montezuma Met Cortez

Author: Matthew Restel

1 episode

Who Owns Britain

Author: Kevin Cahill

1 episode

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Wolf Hall

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Work by Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics edition mentioned)

Author: Michael Psellus

1 episode

Works by Richard Rolle and Walter Hilton (contained in Hiberno-English manuscript)

Author: Richard Rolle

1 episode

Worlds of Arthur

Author: Guy Howsor

1 episode

Writings of Gildas

Author: Gildas

1 episode

Years of the Sword

Author: R. J. Unstead

1 episode

laudai

Author: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

1 episode

Authors

196 tagged

Traditional Attribution or Various

24 episodes

Tom Holland

16 episodes

William Shakespeare

9 episodes

Dominic Sandbrook

7 episodes

Geoffrey Chaucer

6 episodes

Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln

6 episodes

Dan Brown

5 episodes

Charles Dickens

4 episodes

Julian Rathbone

4 episodes

Snorri Sturluson

4 episodes

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

4 episodes

Anonymous

3 episodes

Arthur Conan Doyle

3 episodes

Mark Gregory Pegg

3 episodes

Neil Price

3 episodes

Tom Shippey

3 episodes

W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman

3 episodes

Adolf Hitler

2 episodes

Barbara Tuchman

2 episodes

Dante Alighieri

2 episodes

Don Holway

2 episodes

Helen Castor

2 episodes

Huizinger

2 episodes

Ian Mortimer

2 episodes

Jesse Weston

2 episodes

Jonathan Sumption

2 episodes

Joseph Campbell

2 episodes

Kate Moss

2 episodes

Murasaki Shikibu

2 episodes

Paul Murray Kendall

2 episodes

Procopius (Procopius of Caesarea)

2 episodes

Robert Graves

2 episodes

Robert Harris

2 episodes

Rosemary Sutcliff

2 episodes

Sei Shōnagon

2 episodes

Sir Thomas Malory

2 episodes

Thomas Hughes

2 episodes

Walter Scott

2 episodes

Winston Churchill

2 episodes

A. J. P. Taylor

1 episode

Adam Hochschild

1 episode

Alban Butler

1 episode

Alwyn Turner

1 episode

Amartas

1 episode

Andrew Barr

1 episode

Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Anna Chatier

1 episode

Anne Curry

1 episode

Anthony Kaldellis

1 episode

Anthony Monday

1 episode

Bernard Cornwell

1 episode

Bernard Levin

1 episode

Bernard of Clairvaux

1 episode

Cacauamanos

1 episode

Caroline Walker Bynum

1 episode

Charlotte Brontë

1 episode

Chris Harding

1 episode

Christopher Booker

1 episode

Chrétien de Troyes

1 episode

Claire Tomalin

1 episode

Clifford Rogers

1 episode

Colin Jones

1 episode

Copernicus

1 episode

Dan Jackson

1 episode

Dan Jones

1 episode

Daniel Defoe

1 episode

Daniel Hobbins

1 episode

Daniel Ogden

1 episode

Daryl Jones

1 episode

David A. Goodman

1 episode

David Bates

1 episode

David Blondel

1 episode

David Carpenter

1 episode

David Douglas

1 episode

David Turner

1 episode

Dee Brown

1 episode

Dmitri Goutas

1 episode

E. M. Forster

1 episode

E. M. Rose

1 episode

Edmund Spencer

1 episode

Edmund Spenser

1 episode

Edward Creasy

1 episode

Edward Gibbon

1 episode

Eleanor Searle

1 episode

Fadousi

1 episode

Francis Godwin

1 episode

Francis Goodwin

1 episode

Francis Wilson

1 episode

Frederick Morton

1 episode

Geoffrey of Monmouth

1 episode

George R. R. Martin

1 episode

Gildas

1 episode

Gina Davis

1 episode

Giorgio Vasari

1 episode

Gustave Flaubert

1 episode

Guy Howsor

1 episode

Guy Lestrange

1 episode

Gérard de Sed

1 episode

H. C. McNeile (pen name: Sapper)

1 episode

Henri Charrière

1 episode

Henry Treese (as mentioned in transcript)

1 episode

Hilaire Belloc

1 episode

Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Italo Calvino

1 episode

Ivan Morris

1 episode

J. K. Rowling

1 episode

J. R. R. Tolkien

1 episode

James Shapiro

1 episode

Jean Anouilh

1 episode

Jean de Mailly

1 episode

John Adamson

1 episode

John Aubrey

1 episode

John Betjeman

1 episode

John Fenn, editor

1 episode

John Gower

1 episode

John Keegan

1 episode

John le Carré

1 episode

John of Sacrobosco

1 episode

Josephine Tay

1 episode

José Saramago

1 episode

Judith Barker

1 episode

Judith Heron

1 episode

Julian Harrison

1 episode

Julian of Norwich

1 episode

Kai Roberts

1 episode

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

1 episode

Kat Jarman

1 episode

Kenneth Williams

1 episode

Kevin Cahill

1 episode

Lesley Coote

1 episode

Lewis Chester; Godfrey Hodgson; Bruce Page

1 episode

Lucy Lethbridge

1 episode

Marcel Proust

1 episode

Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

Margaret Mitchell

1 episode

Margaret Murray

1 episode

Marian Turner

1 episode

Marina Warner

1 episode

Martin of Poland

1 episode

Matthew Josephson

1 episode

Matthew Restel

1 episode

Maurice Druon

1 episode

Merrill Kaplan

1 episode

Michael Crichton

1 episode

Michael McCormick

1 episode

Michael Psellus

1 episode

Michael Taylor

1 episode

Miguel de Cervantes

1 episode

Milorad Pavic

1 episode

Mélodie Doumy

1 episode

Nestor (as mentioned in transcript)

1 episode

Nikolai Leskov

1 episode

P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

P. L. Travers

1 episode

Peter Ross

1 episode

Pope Adrian IV (issuer)

1 episode

Prosper Mérimée

1 episode

Prosper of Aquitaine

1 episode

Ptolemy

1 episode

R. A. Moore

1 episode

R. I. Moore

1 episode

R. J. Unstead

1 episode

Ralph Hollinshead

1 episode

Ramsay Abbey

1 episode

Richard Johnson

1 episode

Richard Rolle

1 episode

Richard Wagner

1 episode

Robert Bolt

1 episode

Robert Burton

1 episode

Ruaidhrí Ó Luinín and Others

1 episode

Samuel Carter Hall

1 episode

Samuel Pepys

1 episode

Simon Schama

1 episode

Sir Edward Cook

1 episode

Sir Walter Scott

1 episode

Susan Cooper

1 episode

T. H. White

1 episode

Ted Vallance

1 episode

Theoderica Zwerken (scribe identified in the manuscript)

1 episode

Thomas Keneally

1 episode

Thomas Mann

1 episode

Thomas of Monmouth

1 episode

Toby Wilkinson

1 episode

Tom Penn

1 episode

Tore Skaer

1 episode

Unknown

1 episode

Unknown (medieval liturgical manuscript; held at Westminster Abbey)

1 episode

Unknown (probably a bishop who served Matilda of Flanders as her chaplain)

1 episode

Unknown; plagiarised from various European authors

1 episode

Various

1 episode

William Dalrymple

1 episode

William Langland

1 episode

William of Poitiers

1 episode

William of Tudela

1 episode

an anchoress of Winchester (unnamed)

1 episode

Émile Zola

1 episode