NOTE: The only source used for this episode, outside of the direct quotation from Moby Dick, was Procopius's History of the Wars. For...

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Hermenafrid had lied to Theuderic, and for this there could be no mercy...

Chlothar, Chlodomir and Childebert spent hours and days planning their strategy for the attack on Burgundy...

Genevieve bookends the entire arc of the T+M universe. She stood against Attila, and centuries later, her church became the Panthéon.

Clotilde's boys, always looking for a reason to expand their power or pick a fight, needed little reason to go to war...

Clovis never passed a day in his life as King without thinking about how he could expand his Kingdom and burnish his hold on power.

So who was Rusticus? He was a resident of a region that had, at the beginning of the century, been a part of the Roman Empire for 450 years.

Sieges were the worst, and Clovis hated them with a passion. Yet here he was, sitting in the shadow of Avignon‘s city walls...

The world was caving in on Clovis. At least, that’s how he felt as he watched his line continue to be pushed back...

Syagrius had one thought that repeated over and over again in his mind: How had everything gone so wrong so quickly? Who was this Clovis?

Around 455CE, the Salian Franks of Belgica Secunda, an area that in modern times falls in and around Northern France and Belgium, were...

Merovech was born from the dual fathers of a sea monster and a normal man; then again, if you look deeper, maybe he never existed at all...

In 476 CE, the Roman Empire fell. What came after the fall was a fight for power that shaped history and affects us to this day.

Thugs and Miracles, the podcast looking at the history of the kings and queens of France from the fall of Rome to the fall of the guillotine