It's our Christmas episode (about a week late): A Lion in Winter! Join us for a discussion of medieval Christmas, dogs, King Lear, and more!

Sources:

"The Lion in Winter" Roger Ebert 4 November 1968 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lion-in-winter-1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_in_Winter_(1968_film)

Mental Floss https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/514198/10-dramatic-facts-about-king-lear#:~:text=KING%20LEAR%20WAS%20INSPIRED%20BY,12th%2Dcentury%20Historia%20Regum%20Britanniae.

Legend of King Lear: "Geoffrey of Monmouth's account of King Lear in History of the Kings of Britain" https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/geoffrey-of-monmouths-account-of-king-lear-in-history-of-the-kings-of-britain "Dates and Sources: Find out what inspired Shakespeare's King Lear and when it was written," Royal Shakespeare Company https://www.rsc.org.uk/king-lear/about-the-play/dates-and-sources "Geoffrey of Monmouth," PBS, 1 May 2009, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/king-lear-geoffrey-of-monmouth/638/ . Six Old English Chronicles https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Six_Old_English_Chronicles/Geoffrey%27s_British_History/Book_2

Dogs Kathleen Walker-Meikle, "Dogs: Medieval Man's Best Friend," British Library https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/dogs-medieval-mans-best-friend.html Diane Lee, "Dogs at the Medieval Banquet," the iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/dogs-at-the-medieval-banquet/ "Nothin' but a Hound Dog" Medieval manuscripts blog, British Library, 4 february 2013 https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/02/nothin-but-a-hound-dog.html?_ga=2.178439524.1765360649.1603983305-769267029.1603983305

Eleanor and Her Sons: Helen Castor, "Why Richard I shared his bed with the king of France," The Guardian 18 March 2008 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/mar/19/monarchy.france "Richard I (1157-1199)" BBC History http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/richard_i_king.shtml Henric Bagerius and Christine Ekholst, "Kings and favourites: politics and sexuality in late medieval Europe," Journal of Medieval History 43:3 (2017): 298-319. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1080/03044181.2017.1322999 Ralph V. Turner, Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England (Yale University Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vm2g7.18 John Gillingham, Richard I (Yale University Press, 1999). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkzqv.6 David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain, 1066-1284 (London: Penguin, 2004). "Eleanor of Aquitaine" You're Dead to Me BBC Radio4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p087r8kb

Rosamund Clifford: Lyrics to Queen Elanor's Confession, Available at https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch156.htm The Woman in the Bower, Sexual Fables, available at http://sexualfables.com/the_woman_in_the_bower.php Robert L. Chapman, "A Note on the Demon Queen Eleanor," Modern Language Notes 70, 6 (1955) Sally Jefferey, "The Formal Gardens at Moor Park in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries," Garden History 42, 2 (2014)

Medieval Christmas: Professor Sarah Peverley, "Christmas at the Medieval Court," available at https://sarahpeverley.com/2012/12/22/christmas-at-the-medieval-court/ University of Liverpool Podcast, "Sarah Peverley": https://sarahpeverley.com/tag/medieval-christmas/ "Christmas in the Middle Ages," Medievalists.net, available at https://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/christmas-in-the-middle-ages/