Medieval Death Trip

We're back from our hiatus to remember the Battle of Hastings on its 950th anniversary by looking at the account of the battle in the Historia Ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis.

In this episode, we celebrate the start of a new school year with a return to Eberhard the German's Laborintus and learn more about the trials and tribulations of teaching medieval schoolchildren.

On this episode, we're back with Thomas of Monmouth's The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich to hear a tale of fire, fratricide, and fetters.

On this episode, get a different version of the story of Edgar's love for the married Aelfthryth, this time in a blending of history with courtly romance from Gaimar's L'Estoire des Engleis.

On this episode, we take one more step backwards in history from last time and look at some scandalous behavior from King Edgar the Peaceful as described by William of Malmesbury.

On this episode, we look at one moment in history from three different sources -- the deaths of King Edgar and his short-reigned heir, Edward the Martyr. Sources featured: The Melrose Chronicle, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum. Stay tuned to the very end for the new riddle!

It's our (shortly after) Mother's Day episode, in which we learn from Edward the Confessor how not to treat one's mother and investigate a connection between The Song of Roland and radioactive wastelands.

This episode, we return to the Lanercost Chronicle for some examples of clergy behaving in some unclergylike ways, with a particular look at the decline and fall of clerical marriage in the medieval church.

On this episode, we look at a couple of diggers of relics: first, Elfred (or Aelfred or Alfred), who brought the relics of the Venerable Bede to Durham Cathedral; and second, antiquarian James Raine, who dug up those same relics in the early 19th century.

After much delay, Medieval Death Trip is back to ring in 2016 (just not on the conventional date for New Year's Day) with a very special episode. What would it sound like if all the previous MDT episodes got together and made a monstrous baby? It might turn out a little bit like this.