The Medieval World

In this episode, we look at birds generally as they existed in the minds of medieval people. We talk about the different ways in which medieval people hunted, ate, used, and envisioned birds.

For Valerie Garver's book, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, see:

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In this episode, we look at an account of a hobgoblin in ninth-century France. This account comes from a ninth-century Carolingian author named Notker who wrote a biography of Charlemagne.

For a copy of Notker's biography, see:

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I also reference the M.A. Thesis of a certain Klayton Amos Tietjen at the University of Tennessee. For this thesis, see:

https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/4784/

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In this episode, we look at some dirty riddles from Anglo-Saxon England and a fart so powerful that it blinded a man.

For translation and commentary on the riddles, see:

https://theriddleages.wordpress.com/riddles-by-number/

For a good book on the Exter Book, check out:

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For a cheap translation of the Canterbury Tales, here:

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In this episode, we look at murder (and a battle) in the Basilica of Saint-Martin in Tours, France.

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In this episode, we look at a famous case of an escaped criminal who hides in a church. Can he legally be extradited from a church? We find out in this episode.

Books referenced:

Samuel W. Collins, The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Spaces (Palgrave: 2012).

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This is a dramatization of the Song of Roland. It takes the entire epic and reduces it to just a 7 minute reading.

Key Figures:

Roland

Oliver

Ganelon

Bishop Turpin

Charlemagne

Saracen King

In this episode we look at the time Rollo had one of his Viking friends kiss the foot of King Charles the Simple of Francia.

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In this episode, our subject is Medieval Beasts. We look at a species of beasts known as Cynocephaly, or dog-headed men. No, these aren't werewolves.

In this episode, we look at the assassination of Pope Boniface VIII at the hands of Philip IV of France and his cronies in 1303.