'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages
Richard Abels
4.8from 57 ratings
- 87
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 57
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 3K
- YouTube views
About 'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages
Talking about popular conceptions of the Middle Ages and their historical realities. Join Richard Abels to learn about Vikings, knights and chivalry, movies set in the Middle Ages, and much more about the medieval world.
- Publisher
- Richard Abels
- Category
- education · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Jan 2022
- Latest episode
- 18 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 87 episodes have a transcript.
18 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Agincourt: The Battle (with Michael Livingston)
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
King Henry V and the Agincourt Campaign (with Prof. Michael Livingston)
29 Sept 2026
Joan of Arc: Military Commander or Holy Cheerleader?
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Agincourt: The Battle (with Michael Livingston)
Published 18 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And the sort of problem that they end up having is the mud slowing all this down, the archers doing... the damage that they do to that initial charging line of forces that was supposed to take out the archers, and the archers instead take it out. And then the issue of command and control that the French have, which in a large measure goes back to the fact that the king's not there because he's crazy. And the Dauphin doesn't even make it. So what you have instead is all of these lords who all kind of think they should be the guy in charge. Um, and not, there's, there's nobody to really kind of wrangle them into like, no, I don't care what you want, Bob. […]
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- Michael Livingston
- Paul Remfry
- Larissa "Kat" Tracy
- Nicholas Morton
- Rory Naismith
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- YouTube views
- 2,952
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 37 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 20 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100
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- Quality
- 30
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 85
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