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A podcast exploring the wit and weirdness of medieval texts
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As a follow-up to our 2025 saint's-life generating Advent Calendar game, we hear an actual medieval saint's life and discuss how we get some...
In this prelude appendix to our episode on saint's lives, we hear versions of the life of St. Valentine from three different medieval source...
As we enter the season of elves and Christmas spirits, we follow up on our fairy theme from last episode with a look at the famous 16th-cent...
For our eleventh anniversary episode, we follow the fairy path of the redcap, from recent cinema through tabletop gaming, into Victorian fol...
This episode we continue further with Bede as he relates two more afterlife visions of a more infernal nature, and then we hear Gregory the...
This episode we explore two glimpses of the afterlife presented by the Venerable Bede and consider how they relate to the modern conception...
This episode we finally enter the open ocean with the Uí Corra and their fellow pilgrims as they explore strange new lands, seek out new aft...
In this episode, we embark on another Irish adventure with the first part (of two) of "The Voyage of the Uí Corra," in which we don't actual...
For this St. Patrick's Day, we finally present the last canonical text written by St. Patrick, his letter to Coroticus, completing the serie...
This episode, we go into more depth with the legend of St. Kenelm (Cynehelm) and his jealous sister Quendrida (Cwenthryth). We also learn wh...
We continue on from last episode's look at the Green Children of Woolpit with a further consideration of what it meant to wonder at a marvel...
This Halloween marks our 10th anniversary, and we observe it by hearing the earliest written accounts of one of the most well-known pieces o...
In this episode, we explore the tradition of contemptus mundi with a text all about how horrible it is to be a human being, On the Misery of...
We continue from our last episode into the years 1212-1214 in the Melrose Chronicle, where we come to the end of the interdict, and perhaps...
We return to the Melrose Chronicle with a notably nasty run of years from 1205 to 1211. We also consider why people -- medieval and modern -...
For Mother's Day, we look at a 15th-century tale of a plowman who thinks that -- in terms of daily labor -- his wife has it too easy, and ho...
We kick of 2024 with a look at humanity's attempts to recreate itself, first with a dip into the legends of the Golem of Prague, and then an...
We conclude our miniseries comparing the legends to the real life of Gerbert d'Aurillac: mathematician, pope, and alleged magician. Today's...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Gerbert d'Aurillac series with a special Halloween anniversary detour into a Victorian version of his D...
We pick up our unfinished thread from the Melrose Chronicle by exploring the "Dark Legend" of Gerbert d'Aurillac, who became Pope Sylvester...
It's back to basics in Ep. 101 as we return to the Chronicle of Melrose to hear about the years surrounding the turnover of the English king...
For our 100th episode, we look at one of the technologies that marks an endpoint for the middle ages, the printing press, and consider how J...
On Valentine's Day 796 years ago, brother fought brother for the throne of the Isle of Man, as their fathers and uncles had done before them...
On this episode, we get cozy for the holidays with a visit to the humble abode of Elgar, Hermit of Bardsey Island. Just don't mind the visit...
This time on Medieval Death Trip, we celebrate Black Friday weekend with some black magic in our belated Halloween anniversary episode. We l...
This episode we examine the fate of another royal head, that of King Oswald of Northumbria, and the miracles associated with his relics and...
This extra minisode of Medieval Death Trip offers a bit of historical perspective on the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II by looking back...
This episode we return to the Lanercost Chronicle (and a bit of Capgrave's Chronicle) to get some serious history concerning the fall of the...
This episode we conclude the story of the peasant lad who spurned a humble farming life to go off live the high life with a robber knight an...
We continue with Part 2 (of 3) of the 13th-century peasant epic Meier Helmbrecht, in which Helmbrecht returns to his family after a year as...
In this episode we learn how important good hair is to becoming a medieval cattle rustler with part one of the 13th-century poem Meier Helmb...
This episode, we follow up on a question from Ep. 90 about why the wandering worker Thomas Fuller might have fallen in with a criminal sheph...
We finish off our Medieval True Crime miniseries with a look at two hangings from the year 1484 and explore some of the practices surroundin...
In this (belated) episode marking our seventh anniversary, we learn about the infernal realms, straight from the devil's mouth, going from a...
In this slightly belated Father's Day episode, we return to the snarky wit of Walter Map as he explains why it's so hard to be the man of th...
We return from an unplanned semester hiatus with the third installment of our Medieval True Crime miniseries, continuing to explore the 13th...
As we kick off the New Year, we take a brief diversion from our Medieval True Crime miniseries to explore the world of precious stones and t...
This episode, we continue our Medieval True Crime series with a trip to late 13th-century Bedfordshire as represented in its Coroner's Rolls...
For our sixth anniversary episode, we kick off a miniseries on medieval true crime, with the account of a particularly brutal assault on a p...
This episode, we check in once again with 14th-century traveler Odoric of Pordenone as he takes in the many lands between the Indian Ocean a...
This episode, we examine the persecution of Jews that occurred during the plague years of 1348-1350, including the record of well-poisoning...
As life under quarantine begins to enter a new phase, we continue our survey of plague texts, with a grab-bag of selections ranging from Pet...
We return at last for our first episode of 2020 in the midst of the covid-19 global pandemic. As such, our text for today is the famous desc...
This Christmas Eve episode, we return to the Gesta Regum Anglorum of William of Malmesbury, to learn hear some legends of Saxony, including...
This episode, we explore a character analysis of an unpopular leader, as William of Malmesbury explains how the virtues of William Rufus tra...
This Halloween, we celebrate our fifth anniversary with five terrifying tales of demonic activity from the Lanercost Chronicle. Today's Text...
We return from our hiatus with an exploration of life in Tudor grammar school classroom, as described in a compilation of translation exerci...
As a treat to all of our listeners while the regular show is on vacation for July, here's the commentary track I made for the 1981 film Drag...
This episode we encounter another saintly curse, this time at the hands of St. Maughold, the patron saint of the Isle of Man, and on our way...
This episode we go to Durham with its greatest chronicler, Simeon, to first hear about the short, shameful, and Cuthbert-cursed 10th-century...
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