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The Sixth Age: A Medieval History Podcast

Forget everything you think you know about the \"Dark Ages.\" The Sixth Age is a deep dive into Medieval History that strips away modern myths to reveal the world as it was actually lived.

Why did people in the Middle Ages see the world the way they did? From the fall of Rome to the dawn of the Renaissance, we reconstruct the Medieval worldview using primary sources and period-accurate perspectives. If you’re a fan of European history, historiography, and immersive storytelling, join us as we reject later stereotypes to rediscover the vibrant, complex, and often surprising lives of our ancestors.

Subscribe to The Sixth Age for a fresh, authentic look at the history of the Medieval world.

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Works Cited

Episode One: Introduction

Gabriele, Matthew, and David M. Perry. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe. First Harper Perennial edition. Harper Perennial, 2022.

Jones, Dan. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages. Viking, 2021.

Landes, Richard. “The Fear of an Apocalyptic Year 1000: Augustinian Historiography, Medieval and Modern.” Speculum 75, no. 1 (2000): 97–145. https://doi.org/10.2307/2887426.

Episode Two: Clovis and Hannah

Becker, Nickolas and Philosophy Documentation Center. “The Beatitudes through the Ages.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 42, no. 1 (2022): 215–16. https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202242168.

Bermejo-Rubio, Fernando. “Was Pontius Pilate a Single-Handed Prefect? Roman Intelligence Sources as a Missing Link in the Gospels’ Story.” Klio 101, no. 2 (2019): 505–42. https://doi.org/10.1515/klio-2019-0040.

Eklund, Rebekah Ann. The Beatitudes through the Ages. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2021.

Evans, Craig A. Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies. 1st ed. Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums Series, v. 25. BRILL, 1995.

Gers-Uphaus, Christian. “The Figure of Pontius Pilate in Josephus Compared with Philo and the Gospel of John.” Religions 11, no. 2 (2020): 65. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11020065.

Hunter, David G. “Helvidius, Jovinian, and the Virginity of Mary in Late Fourth-Century Rome.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 1, no. 1 (1993): 47–71. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.0.0147.

Mcguckin, John A. “Origen on the Jews.” Studies in Church History 29 (1992): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0424208400011189.

Muessig, Carolyn. “Preaching the Beatitudes in the Late Middle Ages: Some Mendicant Examples.” Studies in Christian Ethics 22, no. 2 (2009): 136–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946809103488.

Pagels, Elaine H. Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus. First edition. Doubleday, 2025.

Reimer, Andy M. Miracle and Magic: A Study in the Acts of the Apostles and the Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Supplement series 235. Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

Soyer, François. Medieval Antisemitism? Past Imperfect. Arc Humanities Press, 2019.

Tredwell, Daniel M. A Sketch of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana: Or the First Ten Decades of Our Era. 1st ed. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2023.

Willem Van Henten, Jan. “REBELLION UNDER HEROD THE GREAT AND ARCHELAUS: PROMINENT MOTIFS AND NARRATIVE FUNCTION.” In The Jewish Revolt against Rome: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Online-Ausg, edited by Mladen Popović. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume 154. Brill, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004216693.

Episode Three: New Rome Who Dis

Alvar, Jaime, and Richard Lindsay Gordon. Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation, and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis, and Mithras. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 165. Brill, 2008.

Cataldo, Jeremiah W. A Social-Political History of Monotheism: From Judah to the Byzantines. First edition. Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315406909.

Cook, William R., William R. Cook, and Ronald B. Herzman. The Medieval World View: An Introduction. 2. ed. Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.

Ermatinger, James W. The Roman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Empires of the World. ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798216009771.

Esler, Philip Francis, ed. The Early Christian World. Second edition. Routledge Worlds. Routledge, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315165837.

Falcasantos, Rebecca Stephens. Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital. Christianity in Late Antiquity 9. University of California Press, 2020.

Hagler, Aaron M. Owning Disaster: Coping with Catastrophe in Abrahamic Narrative Traditions. Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003377191.

Halsall, Guy. Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Halsberghe, Gaston. Cult of Sol Invictus. Études Préliminaires Aux Religions Orientales Dans l’Empire Romain 23. Brill, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004296251.

Heyob, Sharon Kelly. The Cult of Isis among Women in the Graeco-Roman World. Études Préliminaires Aux Religions Orientales Dans l’Empire Romain 51. Brill, 1975. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004296374.

Oman, Charles William Chadwick. The Byzantine Empire: “Byzantium Could Not Be Deprived of Its Unrivalled Position”’. Copyright Group, 2019.

Robin Darling Young. “The Lady Advances: The Voices of Women in Early Christianity.” Journal of Early Christian Studies (Baltimore) 31, no. 3 (2023): 263–82. 2864246453, pp. 263–82. ProQuest Central; ProQuest One Academic. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2023.a904927.

Schott, Jeremy M. Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity. Divinations. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

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