The year 536 AD, around the time these women were born, is grossly overlooked in modern accounts of this period. I'm glad you mentioned it. It was quite literally a 'Dark Age' that affected people for decades, and most certainly the immediate years surrounding the disaster. The sun went out for over a year. There were no crops, no sunlight, it was dark, and most certainly vitamin D deficiencies wreaked havoc on the population, causing death and disease.
I love this story! This is my favorite time period. Would love to see an episode on St Columbanus who came from Ireland to re-evangelize the continent and came into direct conflict with many of these Merovingians and also the Arian Christian Lombards.
Irish monks even set up the famous monastery in Italy at Bobbio (near Genoa but inland). Might have been Colombanus himself. I come originally from a small town in north eastern Italy where the Longobardi had their main kingdom and in that small town there was an Arian church reportedly dedicated to St Martin - I've read that the Longobard Arians emphasised saints with a military background like Martin because of their own military prowess.
Thanks to my two favourite Brits for shedding light on a period that is hardly mentioned in the "histoire de France" as taught to all French children in primary school. As I remember it, Clovis had a prominent role, his descendants the Merovingian kings vaguely mentioned as "les rois fainéants", the next highlight being the Battle of Tours that we French call "la bataille de Poitiers" (732 is a date engraved in the memory of French people, at least of my generation), the culmination being of course the ascension of Charlemagne. If you ask any French person to name the main figures summarizing French history before the modern times, you'll probably get: Vercingétorix, Clovis (probably but not always cited), Charlemagne, Henri IV, Louis XIV and Napoleon the first.
First, Dominic, your understanding of fictional history is excellent. Second, Dominic you must buy Tom a sweater for Christmas. I can’t look at him huddled under a fur doing the podcast much longer.
Tom, I love the jacket. I also love your translation of The Histories and your book Rubicon. Tom Holland this world desperately needs a contemporary translation of The Fall Of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus. Mr. Holland please, please finish what Homer started!
There's a cluster of Anglo Saxon barrows in Greenwich Park, London. Those would be Saxon I think. And the Scandinavians also did a bit of barrowing. Is that a word? Probably not. Once again I'm loving the bird activity. I'm still unclear about the identity of your predators. What was that magnificent fork-tailed thing scoping out the goldfinches?
Watching regularly on RUclips and really enjoying the different stories. Then suddenly you are dubbed into french. I am bilingual, but prefer by far your english voices, there is definately something lost in translation 😢 Lesley Clark
Tom, what does your DNA reveal about your genetic past? My guess, you're Norse, Germanic...perhaps Habsburg. I dunno. Something about that nose suggests, "someone in the Royal Family knew someone in the Royal Family."🤔😅
I love Tom for his commitment on looking the most frankish possible without a wig. ❤
Brilliant episode, guys! ❤️
That's a very delicate subject because he actually is using a wig but we don't talk about it
I thought it was a nod to the Starks of Winterfell.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! YEAH!!!!
The year 536 AD, around the time these women were born, is grossly overlooked in modern accounts of this period. I'm glad you mentioned it. It was quite literally a 'Dark Age' that affected people for decades, and most certainly the immediate years surrounding the disaster. The sun went out for over a year. There were no crops, no sunlight, it was dark, and most certainly vitamin D deficiencies wreaked havoc on the population, causing death and disease.
Volcanic eruptions? Maybe that's what we need to counter act global warming? I'm not joking!
Tom is actually a Wildling from North of The Wall.
He calls himself Trom now
I was thinking Cruella De Vil.
I thought he was from Chatham
Tom aptly dressed to pimp history.
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''The History Pimps'' was a missed opportunity by Tom and Dom..
The rabbit fur cape makes a return appearance! I'm digging it!
Tom has an unbelievable ability to store facts. Formidable memory.
What an amazing bit of history... Excellent Tom and Dom.
Thank you very much indeed
I love this story! This is my favorite time period. Would love to see an episode on St Columbanus who came from Ireland to re-evangelize the continent and came into direct conflict with many of these Merovingians and also the Arian Christian Lombards.
Irish monks even set up the famous monastery in Italy at Bobbio (near Genoa but inland). Might have been Colombanus himself. I come originally from a small town in north eastern Italy where the Longobardi had their main kingdom and in that small town there was an Arian church reportedly dedicated to St Martin - I've read that the Longobard Arians emphasised saints with a military background like Martin because of their own military prowess.
Thanks to my two favourite Brits for shedding light on a period that is hardly mentioned in the "histoire de France" as taught to all French children in primary school. As I remember it, Clovis had a prominent role, his descendants the Merovingian kings vaguely mentioned as "les rois fainéants", the next highlight being the Battle of Tours that we French call "la bataille de Poitiers" (732 is a date engraved in the memory of French people, at least of my generation), the culmination being of course the ascension of Charlemagne. If you ask any French person to name the main figures summarizing French history before the modern times, you'll probably get: Vercingétorix, Clovis (probably but not always cited), Charlemagne, Henri IV, Louis XIV and Napoleon the first.
I feel like this is an appropriate topic for Dom to go two buttons down.
I never knew I'd find early middle ages drama this entertaining
Wow! This tale is better than Game of Thrones
Tom doing his best Ragnar Lothbrok impersonation- love it!! ❤
A bespectacled Ragnar, mind you. 😆
I know this is a Frank series but with the chat of a real life Cersei Lannister I immediately thought of Irene of Athens.
So we are to conclude that Tom's fur is here to stay and he now identifies himself as a chinchilla
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
It Tom wearing Liberace's car rug?
Yeah --- it's grooooovy! And slightly medieval, too.
😂😂😂😂😂
I was searching for this yesterday! Fantastic stuff.
Thank you !
Why on earth would I have listened to this hoping for a positive positive outcome? What is wrong with me?
So much better than Game of thrones 😊
Just great!
First, Dominic, your understanding of fictional history is excellent. Second, Dominic you must buy Tom a sweater for Christmas. I can’t look at him huddled under a fur doing the podcast much longer.
Dominic (sotto voce”: “The French and dysentery!” 🏆
I can't help but think of Dominic as Kenneth Horn to Tom's Kenneth Williams.
👍 👌
Toms giving off 3 eyed raven vibes
Tom, I love the jacket. I also love your translation of The Histories and your book Rubicon. Tom Holland this world desperately needs a contemporary translation of The Fall Of Troy by
Quintus Smyrnaeus. Mr. Holland please, please finish what Homer started!
“Well-behaved women seldom make history”
There is something so beautiful about the idea of these two rivals being joined together by Wagner.
The shits, the shits... my god, the SHITS! Or, don't drink the water.
In future I will end relationships with 'Get thee to a Nunnery '!😂
😂
Please do one on the Peterloo massacre and the Corn Laws. Some comedy about Waterloo-Peterloo-Bakerloo will be in order.
There's a cluster of Anglo Saxon barrows in Greenwich Park, London. Those would be Saxon I think. And the Scandinavians also did a bit of barrowing. Is that a word? Probably not. Once again I'm loving the bird activity. I'm still unclear about the identity of your predators. What was that magnificent fork-tailed thing scoping out the goldfinches?
An interior war within the walls of the castles full of intrigues and assassinations maybe even defenestrations?
So the old saying attributed to Al Capone "It aint over until the fat lady sings" is about Fredegund/Brunnhild.
Smashing coat! Is it wolfskin? Squirrel?...
Very appropriate barbaric coat on Tom Holland.
I've never seen Game of Thrones. Why would I need to when history is this engrossing?
Hmmm! Game of thrones or I Claudius 😂
Wo ist die Original Stimme?
Is the heat not working
Kept thinking you were saying Australia boys. We didn`t exist in the 6th century ha ha
Killer Medieval Dysintery: Witches Of The West
Dominic is my secret crush…
❤️
@user-fb3pu3qx3t and mine ❤😊
Mine too ❤😊
I'm heterosexual male and he's my secret crush too! Those impersonations are sexy xD
I did like this, but I so got lost with h=who was who and where
And France declines from that time forward ;-(
I assume the title is a rhetorical question.
Watching regularly on RUclips and really enjoying the different stories. Then suddenly you are dubbed into french. I am bilingual, but prefer by far your english voices, there is definately something lost in translation 😢 Lesley Clark
My god!
Tom, what does your DNA reveal about your genetic past?
My guess, you're Norse, Germanic...perhaps Habsburg.
I dunno. Something about that nose suggests, "someone in the Royal Family knew someone in the Royal Family."🤔😅
not Rome, the Western Roman Empire.
What is a "Putin-style dirty war"? I have to question your mastery of history given your perverted view of current events.