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In today’s episode, David Grubbs and Jordan Poss join Coyle begin a series exploring the politics and history of the Middle Ages. Today’s episode involves a discussion of whether the phrase “Dark Ages” is useful or accurate, as well as a discussion of Gildas the Wise and his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae.
Readings Mentioned in the Episode:
- Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
- The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins
- Britain After Rome by Robin Fleming
- Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars by David Nicolle
- History of Wales by John Davies
- Dominion by Tom Holland
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- History of English Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill
- Correction of the Rustics by Martin of Bruges
- Lest Darkness Fall by L Sprague DeCamp
- Life of Bishop Germanus
- Confession and Letter of Patrick
- Byzantium and Patrick by Stephen Lawhead
- Brendan by Frederick Buechner
- Life of Brendan