Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieva...
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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Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī 2: City of Victory
In the Vijayanagara Empire
36 min
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Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī 1: The Unwilling Envoy
A Timurid Ambassador in 15th Century India
32 min
78
Medieval Lives 1: al-Ghazāl
From Muslim Spain to the Vikings
14 min
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Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo 6: There and Back Again
The End of the Journey and End of Timur
43 min
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Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo 5: A Season of Feasting...
The Meeting with Timur
40 min
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Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo 4: Sickness & Heat, Mel...
Travel in 15th Century Northern Iran
39 min
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Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo 3: Of the Water and the...
The Black Sea and the Lands Beyond
38 min
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Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo 2: Sacred Objects in th...
Castilian Envoys in 15th Century Constantinople
40 min
84
Halloween Mini Episode: The Trouble at Froda
An Icelandic Saga of the Undead
26 min
85
Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo 1: Byzantine Entanglements
Castilian Ambassadors on the 15th Century Mediterranean
41 min
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Ibn Fadlan 4: Communal Hygiene and the Viking F...
Ibn Fadlan and his Encounter with the Rus
36 min
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Ibn Fadlan 3: Bulgar Discomforts & Jinn Warfare
Ahmad ibn Fadlan and the Bulgars
35 min
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Ibn Fadlan 2: A Letter from the Caliph
Journey to the Bulgars
34 min
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Ibn Fadlan 1: From Baghdad with Very Cold Beards
Ahmad ibn Fadlan and the Journey North
37 min
90
Eustace the Black Monk
Eustace the Monk: A Medieval Outlaw Hero
34 min
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Brancacci's Mission 2: Already Dismissed
A Florentine Ambassador in Mamluk Egypt
48 min
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Brancacci's Mission 1: From Florence to Cairo
Florentine Diplomacy in Mamluk Egypt
39 min
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Sir John Mandeville 5: Mongols, Mountains, and ...
Mandeville on Assassins, the Valley Perilous, and the Great Khan
52 min
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Sir John Mandeville 4: Of India and Medieval Mo...
India, the Islands, and Monstrous Races and their Meanings
39 min
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Sir John Mandeville 3: Mamluk Egypt
Mandeville in Medieval Egypt
43 min
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Sir John Mandeville 2: In and Around Jerusalem
A 14th-Century Pilgrimage
31 min
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Sir John Mandeville 1: To the Holy Land
Mandeville: The Book of Marvels and Travels
32 min
98
The Book of the Wonders of India
Tenth Century Fables of the Sea
34 min
99
Halloween Mini Episode: The Stories of Walter Map
Of Faeries, Ancient Kings, and the Wild Hunt
26 min
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Abu Zayd and the Ways East
The Voyage to India and China, and the Huang Chao Rebellion
34 min