Medieval history podcast

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Ghiyath al-Din Naqqash 1: A Timurid Painter in Ming China

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In the early 15th century, the son of Timur sends an ambassador east to the target of his father's last military campaign.

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Prester John 5: The Mongol Priest-King

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The Mongols, their conquests, and the travellers who went to see them were all going to necessitate some changes to the Prester John narrative. This episode is all about those changes.

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Prester John 3: The Fifth Crusade

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The crusaders make their way first to Acre and then to Damietta. Perhaps someone would be along to help them soon?

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Prester John 2.5: Papal Correspondence

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A shorter episode, on a letter from Pope Alexander III to Prester John.

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Prester John 2: Where From and What For

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On the many fantastic additions to the Letter of Prester John (Dragons! Strange Bakeries! Etc!), and on the theories around it.

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Prester John 1: The Letter

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The legend in its early forms: the arrival in Rome of a patriarch from the east, the chronicles of Otto of Freising, and that famous "letter."

Sir John Mandeville 4: Of India and Medieval Monsters

Mandeville goes east into Greater India, and we go with him, following, as he follows the path of Odoric of Pordenone, into India, into the sea and its islands, and into a discussion of medieval hybrids and monsters, and what they mean. We'll find Amazons, the hand of St. Thomas, and people with neither noses nor eyes.