Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry

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Introduction

00:00 • 5min

2

Legitimacy in a World History Survey

05:00 • 5min

3

What Makes an Artistic Golden Age?

09:34 • 4min

4

Is It a Dubious Claim to Power?

14:03 • 4min

5

Venetian Art and Innovation in Venice

17:34 • 5min

6

The Layering of Meanings in Simple Images

22:17 • 2min

7

How to Write a Booklength History

24:27 • 5min

8

I've Just Found Another Reason Why, You Know, Mathias Corvine Was Illegitimate

29:19 • 2min

9

History of the Middle Ages

31:34 • 6min

10

Didn't Happen in Poland?

37:23 • 5min

11

Can You Make America Great Again?

42:14 • 3min

12

The Anglo Saxon Chronology

45:38 • 6min

13

The European Middle Ages, You Know?

51:32 • 2min

14

Cocoanuts in Mediaeval England

53:44 • 4min

15

The Dark Ages in Science Fiction

57:30 • 3min

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Is There a Dark Age in Science Fiction?

01:00:42 • 4min

17

Petrarch's Golden Age

01:04:31 • 3min

18

The Dark Age Within Science Fiction

01:07:12 • 2min

19

The Dark Age, the Golden Age

01:08:49 • 4min

20

The Potter of Bones

01:12:30 • 5min

21

Science Fiction and Fantasy - Is There a Future?

01:17:06 • 2min

22

Do You Have a Book You'd Like to Gash About?

01:19:15 • 3min

23

Ping Pong Club - A Review

01:22:02 • 2min