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

Phoebe Waller-Bridge said on the television show Fleabag that, “Hair is everything.” She was right, historically-speaking.

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

Human nature remains constant, whether it's 511 or 2019.

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?

T+M includes a list of sources used to make each episode. Without further ado, sources for Episode 4 - Clovis, the First King: Taking Power

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

Thugs and Miracles strives to be as transparent as possible and to spark discussion. Hence, the sources for Episode 3 - Childeric are listed

Some thoughts from the first thirty days of T+M (plus a few years of listening to podcasts before I made the jump to making one myself).

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...

Source list for Episode 2 - Merovech: The Ghost Who Created A Dynasty:

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.

The source list for Episode 1 - After the Fall, the Beginning

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