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Explore "middleages" with insightful episodes like "#380 - Dan Jones - Is Genghis Khan Harder Than Jocko Willink?", "God and the Black Death, Part 2", "How the Magna Carta Worked" and "The Invention of the Book, Part 2" from podcasts like ""Modern Wisdom", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind", "Stuff You Should Know" and "Stuff To Blow Your Mind"" and more!
Episodes (4)
God and the Black Death, Part 2
The Black Death was the most fatal pandemic in recorded human history, decimating a late Medieval world unaided by the germ theory of disease. In this episode of Stuff to Blow your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the ways that religion responded to the plague and the effects these efforts had on its spread and impact.
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How the Magna Carta Worked
In 1215 at Runnymede (doo dah, doo dah) the nobles and the king agreed to end a rebellion against the power of the English throne. While the treaty that emerged contained all sorts of arcane Medieval details, it also contained the seeds of Western liberty and civil rights.
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The Invention of the Book, Part 2
Books are one of humanity’s greatest inventions, but where do they come from? In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe explore the history of book technology, from ancient clay tablets and papyrus scrolls to the codex and beyond.
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