Introduction

Last week we left Bad King John trying to get his kingdom back in 1206. So by all accounts I should now be charging on with John's domestic politics. What I am in fact going to do is a general survey of the history of Europe up to and during the 12th century. Blame a listener called Harry who suggested the idea, and various guys on Facebook who thought it was a good idea. Yarno, Chad, Bethany, Ben, Peter, Jennifer and Monoc also feature.