Introduction

In to day's episode, our content director, david musgrove, chats to doctor mike carr about papal sanction trade between stian and moslem merchants during the mediaeval period. To day, i am joined by mike carr, who is lecturer in late mediaeval history at the school of history, classics and archaeology at the university of edinburgh. And we are going to talk to day about mediaeval trade between christians and moslems, which is a fascinating topic.