Early Middle Ages
Browse the Early Middle Ages within the In Our Time archive.
Tang Era Poetry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.
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Alcuin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
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The Danelaw
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.
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Antarah ibn Shaddad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight
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The Picts
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss history and culture of the Picts.
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Maths in the Early Islamic World
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the flourishing of maths in the Islamic world from C8th.
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Chinese Legalism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chinese Legalism from the time of the First Emperor.
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Beowulf
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
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Icelandic Sagas
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic sagas.
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Athelstan
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reign of Athelstan, the first king of all England.
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Byzantium
The culture, history and legacy of the eastern Byzantine Empire.
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Merlin
Melvyn Bragg examines Merlin, prophet, magician, king maker and the mad man of the woods.
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St Hilda
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 7th century abbess, St Hilda.
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Sunni and Shia Islam
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims
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The Arab Conquests
Melvyn Bragg examines the Arab conquests which helped communicate Islam to the world.
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The Lindisfarne Gospels
Melvyn Bragg examines the manuscripts that united Celtic and Roman cultures in England.
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The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th century
The causes and events of the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century.
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The Volga Vikings
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Volga Vikings.
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