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

Ex Urbe Ad Astra

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The European Middle Ages, You Know?

A study done on mediaeval england determined that the odds of marrying someone who was less than six miles from you were greater than 50%. But as we did more studies, we discovered that not only is that not true of most of continental europe, it's also not true of european port cities. E, i think this connects very well to the up dating and older studies because i've often played the game of following through footnotes or talking to people about n the source of things.

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