I can't tell you how much I love your podcasts. I am getting my son to buy me the membership. You lift my spirits and educate me. I loathed History at school but since I found both of you life just got better.🥰🥰🥰
Got hooked on this podcast this summer while installing a moderate sized area of decking. As I'm a slow worker this took months by which time I was properly hooked. Now I can't as much as walk to the shops without an episode on the go via headphones. Next summer I'm painting the house..
i just love these early medieval, late antiquity, migration period history podcasts its an era that has always interested me but its a time that is hard to understand, and you guys make it understandable with lots of color and detail.
@@tau3457 And even in poetic and literary Italian "Germany" is often called that. In Mozart's Italian language opera "Don Giovanni" Don Juan's offsider Leporello gives Elvira the complete list of his master's conquests in the famous "Catalogue aria" saying " In ALMAGNA due cento e trentuna " -231 conquests in Germany but in "Ispagna e gia mille e tre" -but in Spain he has already seduced one thousand and three! Easy pickings in Spain.
Greetings from New York :) I love your work with these podcast series so much! They're much appreciated; a great distraction, helping me cope better with recent events here.
You two are fantastic. The best history I have seen in years. You bring it to life in the way my favorite profs did. The very reason why I became a history major, Thanks!
I remember reading that until the time of Charlemagne, much of what is now Austra was Romance speaking, with a language similar to the Romansch of Switzerland or Friulian of Italy. Charlemagne put German speaking nobility in the region, and ended up causing a gradual language switch to German.
My name is Maximus Tomus Hollandus, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
Hello The Rest is History. I really enjoy listening to your podcasts. If I may suggest, you might want to explore Charlemagne's impirtant role in establishing Jewish Communities in Ashkenaz, as he was instrumental in inviting leading Jewish scholars from the Levant, via Italy, to the Rhine
You have a brilliant erudite wonderully entertaining podcast. Big fan here. As constructive input: first 10, 15? minutes here were confusing with regard to the main players, even historians - he, him, they etc. unclear as to who exactly. Terrific body of work. Don't stop.
Dominic you are so right I know the name Charlene as well as I know my own and yet I know zippity doo dah about him. Thank you & Tom for giving us this.
I was able to see you guys in Boston on your podcast tour and really loved seeing you in person. At that time I did not notice how beautiful Dominic's eyes are! (I was on Tom's side of the stage). Would it be possible for someone to edit the closed captions? There are some really weird transcriptions, especially of place names and people names! I am also currently reading Tom's book Dominion and enjoying it! Next time you do a podcast tour could you also do a book signing?
Napoleon was about 5 feet 6 inches (1,69 meters), so slightly above average height at the time. This myth stemmed from a difference between British and French measurements (pre-metric system).
I have a question: Ravenna fell to the Lombards in 751. Venice was founded (among many dates proffered) in 697. So what was Venice’s relationship to Constantinople and to Rome in 751?
Venice was a Byzantine province ruled by a Duke (Doge). After the fall of Ravenna it continued to be part of the Empire, but took to electing its own Dukes and within 50 years or so it was fought over by the Holy Roman and Byzantine Empires, before managing to gain a measure of independence (while still pretending to notional fealty to Constantinople for a while).
The first crusade started out from Venice, and the first station on the way to the holy land was Constantinopel, which was pillaged rather grossly. Great start on a crusade - maybe an early sign to the Muhammedanians that HERE WAS SOMETHING TO GAIN IN THE FUTURE. "See you in1453", they might have thought for themselves😮 😮 😮
Had massive nose bleedings throughout my childhood, everytime I had a fever. I can assure you, it is very much possible to die of nose bleeding. Well, having hemophilia helps quite a lot.
Nice to see you dealing with my 34th Great-Grandfather (according to a certain genealogical site). (But then again this is probably true for most of us.) But where did the patina of my nobility go? Is it like homeopathy? Just a trace element of genetics? But it certainly does make me pay more attention to history!
Charles the Hammer was my father! Well, not that one, but he was a dude named Charles who had a hammer. Brought it everywhere...it was kind of annoying...
Please add any extra information about Irminsul, the great pillar chopped down in 772 CE, when Charlemagne and the Frank's defeated the Saxons, claiming Suzerainty? It was legend that Odin hung from Irminsul to learn the Branch Language.
I haven't read anything about the northward traverse of the Pope into the land of the Franks but wouldn't the Lombards have been up there in Northern Italy blocking the way? I guess you could travel by night or somehow travel around them.
I love the European history and this is such an interesting area. Can you please explain how records of Charlemagne remain but the dark ages were in full swing. How much did they know of the Roman Empire at this point as in books I have read the Roman Empire is a mystery to the tribal leaders of Europe?
What do you mean by the tribal leaders of Europe? Like maybe some people around the Baltic, in deep Scandinavia, northern Germany and like European Steppe may have been unaware of the Roman Empire but any leader of any significant area in basically all of Western Europe except for north of Hardians Wall would be familiar with the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire literally still existed just the Eastern half the whole time. Calling it the Byzantine Empire only started in the 16th Century and was known as the Roman Empire for about 1100 years from the fall of the western empire until the 16th century. It literally controlled a good chunk of Italy until 200 years after the death of Charlamange. From the 9th to 13th century the Byzantines had something called the Varangian Guard which was a special unit made up entire of Norsemen then later Normans and Anglo-Saxons. These are just a couple examples of how it would be impossible for the Roman Empire to be a mystery to most of Europe. You are going to have to be more specific about who and when if you want a more exact answer about the extent of their knowledge of the Roman Empire and how they had such.
Dark is a relative term, and actually pretty Anglocentric. England/Britannia suffered the worst fall. Elsewhere in Europebthere was more continuity, especially in language. And the church preserved a number of Roman works, especially works of history like Caesar, Suetonius, Tacitus etc.
@restishistorypod - Having just listened to Barnaby Rudge, I wondered if you had any videos about the Gordon Riots of 1780. Do you, or might that be a subject for future podcasts?
12:57 wasnt it more common at this time for bishoprics to rather be hereitary within the aristocratic families rather than elected? Especially in more rural areas like those of Gaul
Dom: "Hello, today on The Rest Is History one of the titanic figures in all european history" Me: "Finally it's about me!" Dom: "Charlamagne, Master of Europe, Holy Roman Emperor" Me: "FFS, maybe next week" Dom: "One of the most exciting, glamorours and formidable people who has ever lived" Me: "So it is me, nice"
Jesus naming Peter as his rock surely calls into question Almighty God's ability to judge character given what happened before cockcrow on the morning of Jesus' crucifixion
Stupid question: what language did the Franks speak? And is it the root of the expression "lingua franca"? Charlemagne spoke both proto German and Latin.
They spoke Frankish, which, I have read, is the ancestor of modern Dutch/Flemish. Or perhaps it's a relative or off-shoot of proto-Dutch. Can't vouch personally but sounds right.
Its kinda the root of Lingua franca. The phrase comes from Mediterranean Lingua Franka a language used by merchants in the Mediterranean that wasn't any of their native language but one they could all communicate with. By then Frankish had come to mean western European in general which kind of obviously comes from the Franks proper so while the phrase does basically mean language of the Franks it's etymology isn't connected to the actual language the Franks spoke.
@@griffindault Many thanks for that explanation. I imagine western Europe at that time would have been awash with any number of local dialects. Some vulgar Latin, some proto Germanic and some completely sui generis such as Basque. At some point Frankish must have split into the latinised western version and precursor of French and the Germanic eastern version.
@edinburgh1578 you would think that would be the case but French would be in the Germanic language group if that were the case and it's still a Romance language. So instead of the precursor to French being a latinised Germanic language it was a Germanified latin language
Nixon is Yorba Linda AND the only President from My SoCal, by the way. TRIPPY being raised in Yorba Linda in the mid 1960`s on a black and white TV some 12 inches or smaller to hear the word "Yorba Linda" on TV. Nixon was the last ADULT President we had.
Latin should be pronounced more like Italian. IE: when g or c is followed by e or i they are soft. The people in Rome know best how to speak the Roman language, not the Germans. It also just sounds a hundred times more beautiful that way…
Classical Latin was pronounced very differently from medieval - Caesar's name was something like Kaiser and J had a Y sound. V was pronounced like U. There was a pronunciation shift in the Middle Ages and Italian derives from this medieval kind of Latin as does church Latin.
This the emerging of Western Europe. Not Eastern, though it did have an impact on Eastern Europe. You are too Western European focused. The East didn't have a papacy.
Pope's became socialists in the 19th century with that papal encyclical about worker's rights -led to setting up of Catholic worker's parties like the Christian Democrats in Italy -they governed in post World War II Italy and even in Australia we had the DLP!
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I can't tell you how much I love your podcasts. I am getting my son to buy me the membership. You lift my spirits and educate me. I loathed History at school but since I found both of you life just got better.🥰🥰🥰
Also, it shows me that as bad as things get today, it was much worse then. It helps me live through the Trump years.
Got hooked on this podcast this summer while installing a moderate sized area of decking.
As I'm a slow worker this took months by which time I was properly hooked. Now I can't as much as walk to the shops without an episode on the go via headphones. Next summer I'm painting the house..
i just love these early medieval, late antiquity, migration period history podcasts its an era that has always interested me but its a time that is hard to understand, and you guys make it understandable with lots of color and detail.
Who needs HBO when you’ve got The Rest is History? 🍻
Horrible Box Office vs ATRIH... Agreed! There's no comparison, real history has so much more to keep us engaged....!
A Frankish HBO series would be absolutely amazing though🫣
🍻
Tom has a reallyt great way of explaining often quite complex details, yet simply, without ever dumbing it down. Very amusing too.
These are the gold standards of history teachings. Thanks
We the Alamans are still here and speak Alamannic in daily life. Greetings from Alamannic Switzerland
And "Germany" is called Allemagne in France and in Spain!
Greutzi!!!
Grüetzi!
It is the same in Arabic, Turkish, even Welsh.
@@tau3457 And even in poetic and literary Italian "Germany" is often called that. In Mozart's Italian language opera "Don Giovanni" Don Juan's offsider Leporello gives Elvira the complete list of his master's conquests in the famous "Catalogue aria" saying " In ALMAGNA due cento e trentuna " -231 conquests in Germany but in "Ispagna e gia mille e tre" -but in Spain he has already seduced one thousand and three! Easy pickings in Spain.
Greetings from New York :) I love your work with these podcast series so much! They're much appreciated; a great distraction, helping me cope better with recent events here.
Tom in his fur is the best thing of 2024.
Agreed
Amazing. Was waiting when you guys would get to the Holy Roman empire. This is a treat!
"the Pope is team Frank" there is a t-shirt for your merch store, gold as always
You two are fantastic. The best history I have seen in years. You bring it to life in the way my favorite profs did. The very reason why I became a history major, Thanks!
I remember reading that until the time of Charlemagne, much of what is now Austra was Romance speaking, with a language similar to the Romansch of Switzerland or Friulian of Italy. Charlemagne put German speaking nobility in the region, and ended up causing a gradual language switch to German.
"And that actually happened?" is my favorite followup to any historical story.
Hello from Columbus, OH. This podcast, Hardcore History, Roy Casagranda, and Epic History are the best in the business for historical entertainment.
Toms winter arc is something to behold. Long live the Warlord.
"The phantoms of pagan gods." That's a heavy metal album name.
As a short man i like of hearing about other famous short men. Thanks boys😁Go hard Einhard
You guys are GREAT! Your podcasts make my day.
Thank you.
Awesome. Brilliant content. Excellent channel.
So far the best history channel on UA-cam.
My name is Maximus Tomus Hollandus, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
I think we all know the true emperor is Domninicus Sandbrookus.
And I’m Pat Sharp.
Agree it must be real ermin .
😂
@@HectorGonzalez-x1o😂
oh a series about one, of the great enemies of Denmark this should be a great seres, also loving the podcasts 🥰
Yeah, let's have more about Denmark and how it defeated its great, big enemies and intruders.
Hello The Rest is History. I really enjoy listening to your podcasts. If I may suggest, you might want to explore Charlemagne's impirtant role in establishing Jewish Communities in Ashkenaz, as he was instrumental in inviting leading Jewish scholars from the Levant, via Italy, to the Rhine
You have a brilliant erudite wonderully entertaining podcast. Big fan here. As constructive input: first 10, 15? minutes here were confusing with regard to the main players, even historians - he, him, they etc. unclear as to who exactly. Terrific body of work. Don't stop.
I'm calling this the Wolf Coat series.
I'm calling it the Silver Fox's Tales.
I think that coat is a/the goat.
Tom in sheep's clothes
I need a T shirt with "... and that actually happened!" on it.
I second that. TRIH merch needed!
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Love the way you tell these tales, perhaps you should change the name to "The Rest are Ripping Yarns" :) Merry Christmas to you both !
This podcast doesn’t miss
Dominic you are so right I know the name Charlene as well as I know my own and yet I know zippity doo dah about him. Thank you & Tom for giving us this.
I was able to see you guys in Boston on your podcast tour and really loved seeing you in person. At that time I did not notice how beautiful Dominic's eyes are! (I was on Tom's side of the stage). Would it be possible for someone to edit the closed captions? There are some really weird transcriptions, especially of place names and people names!
I am also currently reading Tom's book Dominion and enjoying it! Next time you do a podcast tour could you also do a book signing?
ASTERIX AND OBELIX 😂😂😂😂 HHHHA GAL'S VERUS ITALS AND PEPEIN LE BUT (PEPE LE SHORT)!
Mentioning The lord of the rings was just brilliant
'We love a short man on The Rest is History' - well, maybe not Napoleon.
Napoleon was about 5 feet 6 inches (1,69 meters), so slightly above average height at the time. This myth stemmed from a difference between British and French measurements (pre-metric system).
I remember looking at Charlemagnes thighbone in Belgium. He was an imposing figure.
I have a question: Ravenna fell to the Lombards in 751. Venice was founded (among many dates proffered) in 697. So what was Venice’s relationship to Constantinople and to Rome in 751?
Venice was a Byzantine province ruled by a Duke (Doge). After the fall of Ravenna it continued to be part of the Empire, but took to electing its own Dukes and within 50 years or so it was fought over by the Holy Roman and Byzantine Empires, before managing to gain a measure of independence (while still pretending to notional fealty to Constantinople for a while).
The first crusade started out from Venice, and the first station on the way to the holy land was Constantinopel, which was pillaged rather grossly. Great start on a crusade - maybe an early sign to the Muhammedanians that HERE WAS SOMETHING TO GAIN IN THE FUTURE. "See you in1453", they might have thought for themselves😮 😮 😮
@@ulrikjensen6841 That was fourth crusade was it not that sacked Constantinople instead of going to Palestine?
Charlemagne: The Father of Europe
Brilliant discussion!
Had massive nose bleedings throughout my childhood, everytime I had a fever. I can assure you, it is very much possible to die of nose bleeding. Well, having hemophilia helps quite a lot.
One does not simply do a series on Charlemagne.
Nice to see you dealing with my 34th Great-Grandfather (according to a certain genealogical site). (But then again this is probably true for most of us.) But where did the patina of my nobility go? Is it like homeopathy? Just a trace element of genetics? But it certainly does make me pay more attention to history!
Literally every European and most of Americans, South Americans, and Australians today can be traced back to Charlemagne.
Charles the Hammer was my father! Well, not that one, but he was a dude named Charles who had a hammer. Brought it everywhere...it was kind of annoying...
Cousin!!
If I had a hammer I would be called Charles - or Karl?
The Rest is History drinking game: Take a shot every time Tom (or Dominic) manages to mention the sacral.
Please add any extra information about Irminsul, the great pillar chopped down in 772 CE, when Charlemagne and the Frank's defeated the Saxons, claiming Suzerainty? It was legend that Odin hung from Irminsul to learn the Branch Language.
Wow ! 🤩 nothing like a son taking it to the next level 👊
I haven't read anything about the northward traverse of the Pope into the land of the Franks but wouldn't the Lombards have been up there in Northern Italy blocking the way? I guess you could travel by night or somehow travel around them.
I thought the Lombards were papal loyalists
@william6223 well it sounds like the pope wasn't down with the Lombards.
@@bookaufman9643I listened to the whole series, and wrote too soon. Thanks! I am learning
They were not even Catholic but Arian
144 Thousand. What a Hoot. Such Enthusiasm 😊😊😊 Great Fun. Beyond Thank You 🌹🐦🔥 Blessings 🕊️
I love the European history and this is such an interesting area. Can you please explain how records of Charlemagne remain but the dark ages were in full swing. How much did they know of the Roman Empire at this point as in books I have read the Roman Empire is a mystery to the tribal leaders of Europe?
What do you mean by the tribal leaders of Europe? Like maybe some people around the Baltic, in deep Scandinavia, northern Germany and like European Steppe may have been unaware of the Roman Empire but any leader of any significant area in basically all of Western Europe except for north of Hardians Wall would be familiar with the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire literally still existed just the Eastern half the whole time. Calling it the Byzantine Empire only started in the 16th Century and was known as the Roman Empire for about 1100 years from the fall of the western empire until the 16th century. It literally controlled a good chunk of Italy until 200 years after the death of Charlamange. From the 9th to 13th century the Byzantines had something called the Varangian Guard which was a special unit made up entire of Norsemen then later Normans and Anglo-Saxons. These are just a couple examples of how it would be impossible for the Roman Empire to be a mystery to most of Europe. You are going to have to be more specific about who and when if you want a more exact answer about the extent of their knowledge of the Roman Empire and how they had such.
Dark is a relative term, and actually pretty Anglocentric. England/Britannia suffered the worst fall. Elsewhere in Europebthere was more continuity, especially in language. And the church preserved a number of Roman works, especially works of history like Caesar, Suetonius, Tacitus etc.
Someone tell tom that hes got the alfalfa look.
😂😂
You tell him
@restishistorypod - Having just listened to Barnaby Rudge, I wondered if you had any videos about the Gordon Riots of 1780. Do you, or might that be a subject for future podcasts?
Thank God Henry Jones Sr remembered his Charlemagne
To be noted, Charlemagne's father Pepin was also a short man. In French we call him "Pepin the Short" (Pépin le Bref).
Great stuff, and best wishes for 2025!
But say, shouldn't *_Charlemagne: The Father Of Europe_* have a spot in this playlist?
Oh hell yes
We've heard from Einhard, but will we hear also from Notker the Stammerer?
Great series!!!
How many other barbarian kings the Pope managed to ruin with this tactical move of alliance with a more powerful ruler ?
"God's hand is evident". Dragons in tombs. Uncontested visions. Yes Tom, This is history indeed.
It's charming to see Mr Hollands Room; like a man living in his moms basement even though he's worth 10's of Millions!
Clearly Peppin made Charlie retire, surprised you didn't propose this hypothesis
16:05 dark times
12:57 wasnt it more common at this time for bishoprics to rather be hereitary within the aristocratic families rather than elected? Especially in more rural areas like those of Gaul
Dom: "Hello, today on The Rest Is History one of the titanic figures in all european history"
Me: "Finally it's about me!"
Dom: "Charlamagne, Master of Europe, Holy Roman Emperor"
Me: "FFS, maybe next week"
Dom: "One of the most exciting, glamorours and formidable people who has ever lived"
Me: "So it is me, nice"
What happened to Peppin's older brother? Why wasn't he the object of the Pope's pleas?
Obviously the dragon story is made up because it would not have survived in the tomb with no oxygen to breathe
Also dragons don't exist. But sure.
@humblescribe8522 Indeed, even if it happened, it was probably not a dragon.
Jesus naming Peter as his rock surely calls into question Almighty God's ability to judge character given what happened before cockcrow on the morning of Jesus' crucifixion
Peter died for Jesus in the end
I can't believe I just found out I can watch these
😅
Stupid question: what language did the Franks speak? And is it the root of the expression "lingua franca"? Charlemagne spoke both proto German and Latin.
They spoke Frankish, which, I have read, is the ancestor of modern Dutch/Flemish. Or perhaps it's a relative or off-shoot of proto-Dutch. Can't vouch personally but sounds right.
@@jesseskipper3550 Thanks, it would then also be the ancestor of modern German.
Its kinda the root of Lingua franca. The phrase comes from Mediterranean Lingua Franka a language used by merchants in the Mediterranean that wasn't any of their native language but one they could all communicate with. By then Frankish had come to mean western European in general which kind of obviously comes from the Franks proper so while the phrase does basically mean language of the Franks it's etymology isn't connected to the actual language the Franks spoke.
@@griffindault Many thanks for that explanation. I imagine western Europe at that time would have been awash with any number of local dialects. Some vulgar Latin, some proto Germanic and some completely sui generis such as Basque. At some point Frankish must have split into the latinised western version and precursor of French and the Germanic eastern version.
@edinburgh1578 you would think that would be the case but French would be in the Germanic language group if that were the case and it's still a Romance language. So instead of the precursor to French being a latinised Germanic language it was a Germanified latin language
'Who was Charlie Magny?' , I asked my dad as a child until he told me how it was pronounced.
Nixon is Yorba Linda AND the only President from My SoCal, by the way. TRIPPY being raised in Yorba Linda in the mid 1960`s on a black and white TV some 12 inches or smaller to hear the word "Yorba Linda" on TV. Nixon was the last ADULT President we had.
I think I prefer Tom now, knowing that he roughs it in the spare room with a few tins of lager and doesn’t always shave.
I'm going to name my son Chilllprick
I hold this truth to be self evident, that a club membership fee to 'the Rest is History' is a tax to King 'Charles' and his 'Broadcast Agency'
I find it somewhat unusual to call someone "very pious" who has murdered an entire tribe....
I MUST ASK ...
Why is Tom rugged up like a POLAR traveller, did someone turn the heat off in your study den? His teeth are not chattering.
A good sense of fun, I reckon
Still waiting to hear them discover that Aquitaine is not in “southeastern France” 😆😆😆😆😆
The more I watch these amazing podcasts the more I despise the comprehensive school system! #notbitter
Charlemagne
The "Byzantines" never called themselves Byzantine...
I love Tominic's podcasts. So much better than watching idiotic movies.
Latin should be pronounced more like Italian. IE: when g or c is followed by e or i they are soft. The people in Rome know best how to speak the Roman language, not the Germans. It also just sounds a hundred times more beautiful that way…
Classical Latin was pronounced very differently from medieval - Caesar's name was something like Kaiser and J had a Y sound. V was pronounced like U. There was a pronunciation shift in the Middle Ages and Italian derives from this medieval kind of Latin as does church Latin.
Please delete the "authomatic dubbing feature", It's awful
Disgusting title. Obvious Saxon propaganda
This the emerging of Western Europe. Not Eastern, though it did have an impact on Eastern Europe. You are too Western European focused. The East didn't have a papacy.
I miss good old inquisition. And times when popes werent socialists.
Pope's became socialists in the 19th century with that papal encyclical about worker's rights -led to setting up of Catholic worker's parties like the Christian Democrats in Italy -they governed in post World War II Italy and even in Australia we had the DLP!
Stammering
Tom just rolled out id bed😊
It's amazing what a pile of lies we live on.
Ahahahaha true descendants of Rome are Serbians and Greeks and Mediterranean Arabs
Touch fewer ads it seems chaps . Many thanks. Any chance of continuing the spellbinding French Rev series ?