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🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Overcast, a better podcast app than whatever you're using right now, unless it's Overcast. |
0:08.0 | Get Overcast for free in the App Store. Did the early Middle Ages really exist? |
0:17.0 | No, the Early Middle Ages did not exist. |
0:22.0 | Dr Hans Ulrich Nemitz. Well, case closed. Or rather case opened as the, well, case |
0:32.2 | may be. |
0:34.3 | These are the words that began a paper written by Dr. Nemitz in 1995. |
0:39.5 | This question in itself, he writes, and more so the answer is surprising, to say the least. |
0:46.0 | Well, he's not wrong about that, but what might be more surprising is that he's not alone in his |
0:52.1 | thinking, and more surprising still he may be right. |
0:58.0 | Nemitz and probably more |
1:03.4 | have championed the hypothesis that our current Gregorian calendar is off by |
1:09.0 | 297 years. |
1:11.1 | Time that has just vanished or more. 97 years. |
1:12.6 | Time that has just vanished, or more accurately, was never there to begin with. |
1:18.7 | Phantom Time. |
1:20.8 | The missing years were supposedly part of the early Middle Ages, but according to Eleg and Nemitz, they became part of a historical conspiracy involving narcissistic emperors and even a pope and as a bitter cherry on top of it all. |
1:35.7 | They even claim that one of the most important figures in European history, Charlemagne, |
1:42.2 | was fabricated whole cloth. |
1:47.0 | Records, dating methods, and archaeology of conventional history fail when scrutinized, and many signs point to evidence which shows |
1:56.1 | civilization may not be as old as we think. Are we almost two decades into the 21st century? |
2:05.0 | Or should we be celebrating the beginning of the roaring 20s of the 18th century in the year 1721? |
2:12.0 | We're casting a light to see just how dark the early Middle Ages were as we search |
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