Episode 89: 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.

Ep 75. On Debutantes, Balls and ‘The Season’

• Sources

• Kristen Richardson. 2019. The Season: A Social History of the Debutante.

• Anna Fields. 2010. Confessions of a Rebel Debutante.

• Lucinda Gosling. 2013. Debutantes and the London Season. 

• Anne De Courcy. 2005. Debs at War 1939-1945: How the War Changed Their Lives. 

  • 2017. The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York.

• Jacqueline Ansell. 1999. The Seal of Social Approval, or How Girls Are Presented At Court, The Court Historian, 4:2, 151-160,

• Nancy W. Ellenberger. 1990. The Transformation of London "Society" at the End of Victoria's Reign: Evidence from the Court Presentation Records. Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 22 (4), 633-653. 

• Roseanna Dodds. 2022. “The last dance? Inside the Vienna Ball”. Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/7008937d-7a86-43f4-acd2-7c3e165139c5

• Hattie Crisell. 2022. Inside the Vienna Opera Ball, Where Debutantes Party Like It’s 1877.” The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/society/inside-the-vienna-opera-ball-debutantes-party/ 

• Eileen Spring. 1997. Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800.

• Fiona McCarthy. 2006. The Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes.

• Amanda Hendrickson’s incredible costumes https://www.amandahendricksoncostumes.com/texas-rose-festival