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We're Not So Different

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We're Not So Different
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    June Mailbag: Aurora Borealis

    10/06/2026 | 1h 34 mins.
    folks, we're back and diving into the patron mailbag once again. this time, we answer questions about a host of topics, including: height differences, Aurora Borealis, best Medieval turlet, Traditional Chinese Medicine, battlefield name changes, othering, and spectacular Medieval wizard battles! check it out!

    cover image is of Aurora Borealis, taken from space.com
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    The Life and Death of Jane Boleyn feat Logan Weimer

    05/06/2026 | 2h
    folks, back in January, we brought on Logan Weimer to talk about the unfolding situation in Minneapolis but she was originally supposed to come on the show to talk about her deep interest in the life, death, and afterlife of Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, lady in waiting to four of Henry VIII's wives and sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn. we cover a whole range of topics, including coerced testimony, the use of "madness" as a tool for silencing unwanted voices, executions for "madness", and the poor treatment Jane has suffered in both scholarly and popular history until very recently.
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    Patreon Ep Unlocked: The Day the Dinosaurs Died

    27/05/2026 | 2h 2 mins.
    folks, this is a long one. Luke talks about his Roman Empire: the Chicxulub Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. it's a scripted episode (don't get used to it) chronicling 3 separate stories: the asteroid impact and its aftermath that killed the dinosaurs, the lives of some of those dinosaurs 66 million years ago, and the modern story of how the asteroid impact hypothesis became scientific consensus.

    a list of sources appears at the end of the episode, go get mad at them if you don't like the way the narrative is presented
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    Premodern Iran 4: Vindication

    21/05/2026 | 1h 29 mins.
    folks, we finish up our series on Premodern Iran by looking at Greater Iran from the arrival of the Mongols in 1219 until the fall of the Timurid Empire and the Rise of the Safavids in 1501. we talk internal Mongol civil wars, the Ilkhanate, the Timurid Renaissance, the strains of apocalyptic thought amongst the peasantry, the Iranian Golden Age, and the final vindication of a nearly 900 year old ideological project with the rise of a new ethnic Iranian empire. we hope you enjoyed the series!

    cover image: the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Observatory and madrasa in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (built in the time of Timur)
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    Premodern Iran 3: Towers of Silence

    14/05/2026 | 1h 30 mins.
    folks, we are back with part 3 of our series on Premodern Iran. this time, we get into the long, dark years for Iran and its peoples between the Muslim conquest and the Mongol invasions (651-1221 CE). we talk about how the idea of Iran survived even when the Persian language and Zoroastrianism were both suppressed, how the concept of Iranian identity formed into a real ideological project, why we lack sources, national epics and histories, the language of dissent, and the final grim fate of Zoroastrianism.

    cover image is recent photo of the Yazd Tower of Silence, which is no longer in use and now serves as a museum.
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A mostly Medieval history podcast about how we've always been idiotspatreon.com/wnsdpodwelcometothecrusades.com
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