A Slice of Medieval
Hosted by Derek Birks and Sharon Bennett Connolly · Sharon Bennett Connolly and Derek Birks
4.9from 160 ratings
- 152
- Episodes
- 64
- Transcribed
- 160
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About A Slice of Medieval
Derek Birks is an #historicalfiction author who is interested in all matters historical. Sharon Bennett Connolly is a #medieval #historian who writes mainly about women.
- Publisher
- Sharon Bennett Connolly and Derek Birks
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Apr 2018
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
64 of 152 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Robert the Bruce | A Slice of Medieval #104
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Eleanor of Aquitaine | A Slice of Medieval #103
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Anne of Cleves | A Slice of Medieval #102
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Robert the Bruce | A Slice of Medieval #104
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that was a shock to everyone, including the Bruce's. Hmm. yeah well you don't expect your kingdom to just be absorbed by england you really don't and even edward himself didn't really know constitutionally what he'd done it was was scotland still a kingdom if so where was its king uh because he never claimed to be king of scotland he just came to be overlord of scotland to rule scotland it's true um if it was just a land you know how would that come about how do you how do you fit the previous history into all of this so it wasn't it was Because, again, kingdoms, as with the issue of primogeniture, kingdoms are evolving and the law surrounding what a kingdom was and wasn't was evolving. […]
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- 4.9 / 5
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