Medieval Science (TRIH ep 112)
1337 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host historian Seb Falk to discuss medieval science and to challenge the stereotype of the Middle Ages as a ‘dark’ period. Drawing on Falk's book The Light Ages, they examine how medieval practitioners—monks, astronomers and instrument makers—kept and developed knowledge via devices (astrolabes, equatoria, early mechanical clocks), manuscript scholarship, and cross-cultural transmission from Byzantium and the Islamic world. Falk profiles John...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1337
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Black Death (1346)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Majapahit Empire (1293)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)
- Reign of Edward III (1327)