Matt Lewis

speaker

1,437 appearances 30 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 4d ago

Matt Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 30 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 11.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

to England. matched

He's sent by Pope Gregory the Great to preach Christianity to England. matched

Very quickly gets a convert in the form of Ethelbert the King of Kent, who marries a Frankish wife, Bertha, and the Franks are Christian by this point. matched

So she is influencing her husband towards Christianity. matched

Saint Augustine plays along with it as well. matched

And we also have the force coming from the west and the north of Celtic Christianity. matched

which has never kind of abandoned Ireland in the northwest of Scotland. matched

And they're largely based at Iona and they begin to send missions into the north of Scotland and the north of England too. matched

So in 635, those are beginning and you get Edwin, who is a king of Northumbria in the northeast, adopting Celtic Christianity because of the influence of Iona up there. matched

Later on, you'll get a Northumbrian king, Oswald, who adopts Roman Christianity because of the influence of his wife, who comes from a Roman Christian family. matched

Yeah, hugely, hugely. matched

It seems to be an awful lot of these alliances are made between kingdoms that involve a marriage. matched

And it's a Christian queen coming matched

influencing her husband to adopt that religion. matched

And that, I guess, is the big difference and perhaps part of the success of Christianity from paganism. matched

Similar to in Roman times, you've got this pantheon of gods where you can accept one more god into that pantheon. matched

But once Christianity is in there as a monotheistic religion, it's trying to push everybody else out. matched

So you can agree to accept Christianity even if you're a pagan. matched

feel like it won't mean anything. matched

But once it's in there, it can begin to push everything else away. matched

Showing 541–560 of 1,437 · page 28 of 72