• 47. Roman Hispania: Conquest, Economic Powerhouse, and Barbarian Upheaval

    406 to 452 Welcome back everyone. I’m sorry about the interruption in service. There have been a lot of things happening IRL that have made it difficult to focus on putting out Podcast episodes. And to be honest, reading back over older episodes, I realized that I had lost some spark, wasn’t having as much…

  • 44. The Siege of Rome v1.0

    Belisarius continues moving up the Italian Peninsula, to bring his army to attack the greatest prize: Rome itself.

  • 43. Theodahad’s Thirty Pigs

    Hello and welcome to the Dark Ages Podcast. Episode 43: Theodahad’s Thirty Pigs. I hope you all enjoyed the last episode, it took much longer to put together than expected, and I have to apologize again for the interruption in service and thank you all for coming back to me. Before getting to the meat…

  • 39. Young Justinian

    Justinian is probably the best-known “Byzantine” emperor to the general public. We’ll introduce the man and some of his circle, and explore some of the most important events at the beginning of his reign.

  • 25. A Balkan Bust-Up: Theodoric the Great, Part 1

    c. 460 to 479 CE We welcome to the stage Theodoric, soon to be Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. In the process we catch up on the overwritten soap opera that was politics in Constantinople in the 470s. It’s a wild ride. Hello and welcome to the Dark Ages Podcast. Today’s episode: A…