Episode 86: How Much of a Dick was Napoleon III?

Sources

• Roger Price. 1997. Napoleon III and the Second Empire

• Alan Strauss-Schom. 2012. Napoleon III: The Shadow Emperor.

• James F. McMillan. 1991. Napoleon III.

• WB Jerrold. 1875. The life of Napoleon III: Bonaparte Derived from state records, from unpublished family correspondence, and from personal testimony.

A Brief and Incomplete Timeline of the French Revolutionary History

1789 

Storming of the Bastille

1793

Louis XVI executed by the National Convention. Start of the First Republic. 

June 1793

The Reign of Terror begins led by Robespeirre

October 1793

Marie Antoinette executed

1794

Fall of Robespierre

1795

The Directory overthrow The Convention

1799

Napoleon overthrows Directory and replaces it with The French Consulate. Napoleon is First Consul

1804

Napoleon declared emperor and crowned in Paris. Start of First Empire.

1805-1814 

Napoleonic Wars

1814

Napoleon forced to abdicate and exiled to Elba. End of First Empire.

Louis XVIII returned to the throne. Monarchy Returns.

1815

Napoleon escapes from Elba, takes power in France, defeated at Waterloo, exiled again. 

Louis XVIII back on the throne by July.

1815-1824

King Louis XVIII 

(Napoleon dies 1821)

1830

July Revolution. House of Bourbon overthrown, replaced with Louis-Philippe of the House of Orleans as king of France.The July monarchy;.  

1848

February Revolution. L-P forced to abdicate. Second Republic installed with universal male suffrage.

December 1848

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte takes new role of President of the French Republic.

1851

Louis Napoleon crowns himself Napoleon III of France, ending the Second Republic and beginning the Second Empire

1871

Napoleon III exiled after French-Prussian war. End of Second Empire. Start of Third Republic. Paris Commune, then Presidency. 

Episode 85: What Did the Ancient Romans Eat?

• Pompeii Pizza Fresco https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza

• European Edible Dormouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_edible_dormouse

• Apicius https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Apicius/home.html

• Petronius Satyricon https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PetroniusSatyriconPartII.php 

• Galen, On the Properties of Foods (extract) https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam033/2002031066.pdf

• Murphy, C., Thompson, G., & Fuller, D. Q. (2012). Roman food refuse: urban archaeobotany in Pompeii, Regio VI, Insula 1. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 22(5), 409–419.

• John Wilkins and Robin Nadeau (2015) A Companion to Food in the Ancient World. 

• Mark Robinson and Erica Rowan (2015) Roman Food Remains in Archaeology and the Contents of a Roman Sewer at Herculaneum in John Wilkins and Robin Nadeau (eds) A Companion to Food in the Ancient World, 105-116

• Javier Bermejo Meléndez, Juan M. Campos Carrasco (2023) Vivaria In Doliis. Ceramic Jars For Dormouse Fattening Found In Arucci. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 42 (3), 244-255

• Sally Grainger (2006) Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today. 

• Patrick Faas. 2003. Around the Roman Table, including 150 Roman Recipes. 

• Acts of Paul and Thecla https://www.tonyburke.ca/wp-content/uploads/Acts-Paul-Thecla.pdf

• Life of St Anthony the Great https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm

• Perpetua and Felicitas https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/perpetua.html

• Herbert Musurillo 1972. The Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Introduction, Text and Translations.

Episode 83: What’s the Deal with the Borgias?

Listener Survey: https://forms.gle/78wMyX42uQvpHf1Y8

Sources

• Paul Strathern 2019. The Borgias: Power and Fortune.

• G.J. Meyer. 2013. The Borgias: A Hidden History.

• Christopher Hibbert. 2003. The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431-1519

• Eulàlia Duran. 2008. The Borja Family: Historiography, Legend and Literature. Catalan Historical Review 1. 63-79

• Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince https://apeiron.iulm.it/retrieve/handle/10808/4129/46589/Machiavelli%2C%20The%20Prince.pdf

• The Borgias Family Horrible Histories Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ADwv2A1wg

Episode 82: What Makes the Dark Ages ‘Dark’?

Listener survey link: https://forms.gle/78wMyX42uQvpHf1Y8

Sources

Eleanor Janega Going Medieval Blog

• https://going-medieval.com/2020/07/02/if-youre-going-to-talk-about-the-dark-ages-you-had-better-be-right/

• https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/theres-no-such-thing-as-the-dark-ages-but-ok/

James Hammam. 2010. God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

Voltaire. In Praise of Reason. Trans. Adi. S. Bharat. https://www.bu.edu/pusteblume/8/issue-1-bharat-translating-voltaire.htm 

Theodor Mommsen. 1942. Petrarch’s Conception of the ‘Dark Ages’. Speculum 17 (2), 226-42

Janet L. Nelson. 2007. The Dark Ages. History Workshop Journal 63, 191-203.

Arnaldo Marcone. 2008. A Long Late Antiquity? Considerations on a Controversial Periodization. Journal of Late Antiquity. 1 (1), 4-19

Peter Toohey. 2003. The Cultural Logic of Historical Periodisation. In The Handbook of Historical Sociology, edited by Gerard Delanty and Engin F. Isin, 209-220.

John Frederick Logan. 1972. The French Philosophes and Their Enlightening Medieval Past. Rice Institute Pamphlet - Rice University Studies 58 (4) https://repository.rice.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f1c847f6-70ff-4b75-8eae-93d9aac86e57/content 

Episode 81: History is Rexy! How much of a Qween was Anne Boleyn?

• https://archive.org/details/henryviiitoanneb00henriala/page/n1/mode/2up Letters of Henry to Anne

• Six Wives in the Archives- https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/six-wives-archives-trial-anne-boleyn/

• Descriptions of Anne Boleyn https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/anne-boleyn/anne-boleyns-appearance-demeanour/

• RexFactor Podcast https://www.rexfactorpodcast.com/ 

• Rex Factor Episodes:

  • Anne Boleyn Biography https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Kz9eTKKLTLXyyb4mtcy4c?si=lxWxNfZ1RIO1JtfiohSOow

  • Anne Bolyen Review https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Znrs0qbHVtcXVNRRJsbUL?si=BEDfMzeKReKJJO9sMuxbww 

  • The Fall of Anne Boleyn https://open.spotify.com/episode/5FlWM3YteKtX4m0mKi33RG?si=6Vi8lc93TeiypUFvW0_Slw

  • Henry VIII https://open.spotify.com/episode/1TxP6L70cmd1TpKVVAz0CR?si=_30BZi79RKen_d1Lo9vxsQ 

  • What Happened to Henry VIII https://open.spotify.com/episode/4IIr4bFW16lgT9RdGmh9iq?si=2DwJQ1slSmSV8ZSYUAdhLQ 

• John Guy and Julia Fox. 2023. Hunting the Falcon: the Marriage That Shook the World.

• George W. Bernard.. 2010. Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions. 

• Eric Ives. 2004. The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. Originally published as Anne Boleyn (1986).

Ep 80: What’s the Deal with Empress Elisabeth

Sisi TV Series - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11269100/episodes/?season=1

A clip from Elisabeth, the Sisi musical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e55OVCunNTc

Portraits of Elisabeth (a babe) https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1865-winterhalter-empress/

Eps 78-79: The Ptrouble with Ptolemys

HR Owen’s podcasts: Monstrous Productions

Ep 77: Why is the UK United?

Ep. 76: Boudicca

• Johnson, Margueritte. Boudicca. 2012.

• Margueritte Johnson. 2012. Boudicca.

• Caitlin Gillespie. 2018. Boudicca, Warrior Woman of Roman Britain.

  • 2015. “The Wolf and the Hare: Boudica’s Political Bodies in Tacitus and Dio.” The Classical World 108 (3), 403-29.

• Carolyn D. Williams. 2009. Boudica and Her Stories: Narrative Transformations of a Warrior Queen.

• Vanessa Collingridge. 2006. Boudica.

• Natasha Harlow. 2021 Belonging and Belongings: Portable Artefacts and Identity in the Citas of the Iceni. BAR Btitish Series 664.

• John Davis (ed.) 2016. The Iron Age in Northern East Anglia: New Work in the Land of the Iceni. BAR British Series 549.

• My book! A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women. 2023.