Matt Lewis

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1,437 appearances 30 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard yesterday

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

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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

So we're starting to build matched

It's really hard to be certain. matched

I feel like we tend to over-egg the amount of violence that's going on. matched

The sense that you couldn't walk down the street without getting beaten up. matched

Yeah, absolutely. matched

Undoubtedly, on a large scale, there is this fight to expand kingdoms. matched

There are war bands marching around, fighting each other. matched

Does that necessarily mean that your normal peasants in the field who are just trying to grow their crops are stabbing each other as well? matched

Absolutely, probably not. matched

That's not happening. matched

So violence is prevalent, but it isn't necessarily endemic. matched

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