In today’s episode, Coyle bungles an overview of The Saga of Volsungs. Fortunately, Jordan is there to straighten things out as the discussion of politics in the Middle Ages continues.…

In today’s episode, Coyle, David, and Jordan continue their discussion of the Middle Ages by looking at the Strategikon of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice. Also mentioned in today’s Episode: -John…

In today’s Episode, Coyle, Jordan, and David talk about the Venerable Bede and his works, influence, and role in the history of the church in England.

Episode Link: https://episodes.castos.com/62606055986397-20842277/41019/26471aa1-aa43-4ae0-a070-ec53282b5446/160-FINAL.mp3 In today’s episode, Coyle, David, and Jordan continue their conversation about the Dark Ages and what’s going on in Britain according to the historian Nennius. Mentioned in…

Perhaps no era of biblical interpretation is less appreciated than the Middle Ages. After all, weren’t the medievals at best just perpetuators of patristic readings, and at worst the most…

In the early 6th century, darkness was falling on the Rome’s Western Empire. Old Rome was waning, barbarians sat on the imperial throne, and smouldering tension with the Byzantine Eastern…

In 590 AD, seven years before Augustine of Canterbury would venture over to Britain, St. Columban crossed the channel the other direction to Gaul. Columban was an Irish monk, a…

For a while now, there’s been in American Evangelicalism a growing sense that not all is well, that we have drifted, that we have lost touch with our world and…

Ora et labora: Pray and work. This directive has ordered the life of Benedictine monastics for centuries, each day’s rhythm of worship and toil shaping the soul toward love and…

Download or Stream this Episode The Seventh Seal on IMDB Todd Pedlar, David Grubbs, and Nathan Gilmour dig into The Seventh Seal, a movie at once medieval and modern, digging into questions…

What does it mean to have a good death? Many in our time use technology in an attempt to stave off aging or dying, or to conceal the effects of…

David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour talk for a spell about the Old English poem “The Dream of the Rood,” digging into its particular extant texts and examining the strange and…

Theoretical Breakthrough: Generating Matter and Antimatter from Nothing “Under just the right conditions — which involve an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a two-mile-long particle accelerator — it could be possible…

Yesterday, April 8, was the feast day of a saint: St. Julie Billiart. I’d not heard of St. Julie before: she’s not medieval, so one won’t find her in the…

March 17 is the Feast of Saint Patrick. (Seriously. What did you think I was going to write about? Saints are, like, my one schtick, especially those affiliated with Britain.)…