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    Season Three, Episode One: The New King of the Mountain
    Ben
    • Dec 12, 2021
    • 22 min

    Season Three, Episode One: The New King of the Mountain

    Pépin le Bref is now King Pépin I, having just overthrown the last Merovingian. The Pope is on the run from the Lombards. Worlds collide...
    Season Two, Episode 17: The Hammer
    Ben
    • Jun 6, 2021
    • 18 min

    Season Two, Episode 17: The Hammer

    A year in prison. A broken army. And now caught between two tribes. No problem, Charles Martel thought. I've got them right where I want...
    Season Two, Episode 16: Echoes of the Past
    Ben
    • May 24, 2021
    • 14 min

    Season Two, Episode 16: Echoes of the Past

    A powerful man, a young woman and an upset, long-suffering wife from the 7th century prove that midlife crises are timeless...
    Season Two, Episode 15: The Prince Who Was Promised
    Ben
    • May 17, 2021
    • 16 min

    Season Two, Episode 15: The Prince Who Was Promised

    How do you justify the notion that certain people were chosen, either by God or by fate, to sit in judgement over all other people?
    Season Two, Episode 14: Knife's Edge
    Ben
    • May 9, 2021
    • 14 min

    Season Two, Episode 14: Knife's Edge

    Victory rides on a knife’s edge. Oftentimes what appears to be a loss is actually the access point to a path not hitherto contemplated...
    Season Two, Episode 13: The Return of the King
    Ben
    • Apr 25, 2021
    • 21 min

    Season Two, Episode 13: The Return of the King

    Twenty years. A lot can change in the world in 20 years. A lot can change in a person. And that’s how long Dagobert II was locked away...
    Season Two, Episode 12: Four Kings
    Ben
    • Apr 11, 2021
    • 23 min

    Season Two, Episode 12: Four Kings

    Leodegar knew he had been bested as he looked out of his window and saw the army below waiting for his capitulation...
    Season Two, Episode 11: Coup d’État, Part Three
    Ben
    • Mar 28, 2021
    • 25 min

    Season Two, Episode 11: Coup d’État, Part Three

    This week we’re finishing the trilogy that began with a coup... and then kept getting worse. Meet Ebroin, the new Mayor of the Palace...
    Season Two, Episode 10: Coup d’État, Part Two
    Ben
    • Mar 15, 2021
    • 22 min

    Season Two, Episode 10: Coup d’État, Part Two

    "The King may let you go to a monastery, or he may choose to end your life quickly. Those are your only real options..."
    Season Two, Episode 9: Coup d’État, Part One
    Ben
    • Mar 1, 2021
    • 22 min

    Season Two, Episode 9: Coup d’État, Part One

    The long hair marking Dagobert II as a Merovingian prince was gone, replaced instead by a tonsure that marked his as a monk...
    Season 2, Episode 8: From a Slave to a Queen
    Ben
    • Feb 15, 2021
    • 21 min

    Season 2, Episode 8: From a Slave to a Queen

    Bathilda was slender and had long, golden hair, but more than this, the girl walked with poise strikingly out of place in a slave market...
    Never Research Your Heroes
    Ben
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 5 min

    Never Research Your Heroes

    There's a saying that you should never meet your heroes. Well, as I recently found out, you should never research them either.
    Season 2, Episode 7: The First "Rois Fainéants"
    Ben
    • Jan 31, 2021
    • 23 min

    Season 2, Episode 7: The First "Rois Fainéants"

    “The Queen is dead, bishop, and our King is now an orphan. I rule the in his name, and that makes it my responsibility to tell him..."
    Season 2, Episode 6: Love, War and Politics
    Ben
    • Jan 17, 2021
    • 20 min

    Season 2, Episode 6: Love, War and Politics

    Samo sat alone before his campfire, considering the battle to take place and how best to prosecute his attack against the mighty Franks.
    Season 2, Episode 5: The Spare
    Ben
    • Jan 1, 2021
    • 25 min

    Season 2, Episode 5: The Spare

    Unlike his father, who had to rely on luck, illness and a homicidal mother for the throne, Dagobert had a more conventional ascension.
    Season 2, Episode 4: A Legacy of Decline
    Ben
    • Dec 20, 2020
    • 20 min

    Season 2, Episode 4: A Legacy of Decline

    Chlothar II loved to hunt, and that's what he did while others ruled his Kingdom - right up to death. His reign led in a legacy of decline.
    Season 2, Episode 3: A Quiet Place
    Ben
    • Dec 6, 2020
    • 26 min

    Season 2, Episode 3: A Quiet Place

    A Roman beheading. A stag hunt. A slighted guest. How these came together to make Paris' Basilica of St Denis the resting spot of royalty...
    Season 2, Episode 1: The Cost of Doing Business
    Ben
    • Sep 4, 2020
    • 20 min

    Season 2, Episode 1: The Cost of Doing Business

    People assume that being king was a glorious, entertaining, easy way of life. Glorious? Absolutely. Entertaining? Sometimes. Easy? Never.
    Sources: Season 2, Episode 1: The Cost of Doing Business
    Ben
    • Sep 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    Sources: Season 2, Episode 1: The Cost of Doing Business

    The goal at T+M is to be as transparent as possible and to spark a discussion. Source list of Season 2 Episode 1: The Cost of Doing Business
    Rabbit Hole #5: Saint Eligius - Saddles, Thrones and All the Wrong Words
    Ben
    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 14 min

    Rabbit Hole #5: Saint Eligius - Saddles, Thrones and All the Wrong Words

    Chlothar II needed a new place to sit, a throne befitting his station as the new King of the Franks. But where to find a good craftsman?
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