Download Play in New Window

Phillip Campbell joins us for part 2 of our conversation exploring the nitty gritty of the Middle Ages. In this conversation we will discuss lay control of the Church, Episcopal absenteeism, the failure of the two-sword theory; tournaments, jousts, trial by ordeal, whether peasants actually liked the days off as well as relations with Muslims. Join us as we deconstruct overly romanticized notions of our medieval heritage.

Episode Notes

Part 1

King Aethelbeht and St. Augustine of Canterbury

Ottonian Privilege (Privilegium Ottonium)

Investiture Controversy

Pope Gregory VII

St. Thomas à Beckett

Criminious Clercks

Location of Beckett’s Martyrdom:



Reference to British Law Documentary at 19:25: The Strange Case of the Law

Commendatory abbots

Compendium of the History of the Cistercian Order

Cluniac Order

St. John Fisher

St. Thomas Aquinas

Analysis of Medieval Tournaments

Church condemned Tournaments

Trial by Ordeal

The Victory of Reason by Rodney Stark

Three field crop rotation

Medieval Civilization by Jaques Le Goff

Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel

St. Alphonsus on permissible labor on Sundays and Feasts [citation coming]

Fiorietti of St. Francis

Innocent III (Great book, not enough people buy it, I highly recommend it!)

St. Francis of Assisi

Correction: Nicholas of Cusa was not a Franciscan.

Cardinal Ximenes de Cisneros

Franciscan Spiritualists

A Capuchin Chronicle

Islam in the Middle Ages

Islamic goods traded in Europe

Muslim origins of Pasta

Islam under the Crusaders by Robert Burns

The Crusades by Zoe Oldenbourg

Petrobrusian Heresy

Ibn Jubiari and Trade and Cultural Exchange during the Crusades

More works from Phillip Campbell:

The Story of Civilization: Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3

Heroes and Heretics of the Reformation

The Book of Non-Contradiction

Cruachan Hill Press