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Medieval Death Trip

Medieval Death Trip

Concerning a Voyage to India via the Strait of Hormuz

July 03, 2026 1:41pm 54 min

As vacation season kicks off, we revisit 14th-century traveler Friar Odoric at the very start of his journey, as he crosses from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf, passes through the Strait of Hormuz, and makes shore in ...

Concerning Seizure and Possession (Part 2): Medieval Methods

June 06, 2026 10:40pm 1:06

We complete our look at epilepsy in the Middle Ages by considering how religion and medicine intersect in surviving medical texts and how classical learning was reintroduced by looking at the example of John of Gaddesden...

Concerning Seizure and Possession (Part 1): The Greek Tradition

April 30, 2026 4:29pm 1:01

This episode we begin a two-part exploration into the understanding and treatment of epilepsy in the middle ages. But to get to the medieval, we have to start with its ancient antecedents, so here in Part 1, we look at t...

Concerning the Life and Miracles of St. Winefred

April 02, 2026 5:36pm 58 min

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 of our saintly terminology. You'll also find out where you can get a downloadab...

Appendix to Ep. 120: Some Sts. Valentines' Lives

February 14, 2026 1:46pm 23 min

In this prelude appendix to our episode on saint's lives, we hear versions of the life of St. Valentine from three different medieval sources. Today's Texts: First English edition of the Nuremberg chronicle: being the Li...

Concerning Hinzelmann the Kobold

December 13, 2025 2:09pm 1:05

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-century German hausgeist, Hinzelmann the Kobold -- but don't call him that to his fa...

Concerning Redcaps

November 23, 2025 5:26pm 1:14

For our eleventh anniversary episode, we follow the fairy path of the redcap, from recent cinema through tabletop gaming, into Victorian folklorists and Romantic balladeers, and finally hunting up their ancestry in medie...

Concerning More 8th-Century Visions of Hell

October 14, 2025 11:46am 45 min

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 Great answer some questions about the nature of Hell. Today's Texts: Bede. Eccle...

Concerning the Near-Death Visions of Fursa and Dryhthelm

August 30, 2025 5:14pm 1:03

This episode we explore two glimpses of the afterlife presented by the Venerable Bede and consider how they relate to the modern conception of the near death experience. Today's Text: Bede. Ecclesiastical History. In The...

The Voyage of the Uí Corra (Part 2)

June 26, 2025 6:44pm 41 min

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 afterlives and new sects, and boldly go where many other saints and heroes of Irish...

The Voyage of the Uí Corra (Part 1)

May 03, 2025 6:13pm 35 min

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 actually set sail until final paragraph. Today's Texts "The Voyage of the Hui Corra." ...

St. Patrick's Letter to Coroticus

March 17, 2025 1:37pm 26 min

For this St. Patrick's Day, we finally present the last canonical text written by St. Patrick, his letter to Coroticus, completing the series we began in Episode 68 with the first half of Patrick's Confessio. Today's Tex...

Concerning the Murder and Miracles of Kenelm of Mercia

February 09, 2025 8:46pm 46 min

This episode, we go into more depth with the legend of St. Kenelm (Cynehelm) and his jealous sister Quendrida (Cwenthryth). We also learn what it means to "crab the parson." Today's Text - "The Legend of St. Kenelm." Tra...

Concerning Conjoined Twins, Some Incorruptibles, and Royal Murders

December 14, 2024 6:42pm 56 min

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 in the middle ages, with additional illustration of some wondrous things from W...

Concerning the Green Children of Woolpit and Other Prodigies

October 31, 2024 11:44pm 1:03

This Halloween marks our 10th anniversary, and we observe it by hearing the earliest written accounts of one of the most well-known pieces of medieval weird history: the Green Children of Woolpit -- and also hear the oth...

Concerning the Miseries of the Flesh according to Pope Innocent III

October 19, 2024 7:35pm 53 min

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 the Human Condition, written by Pope Innocent III (when he was but Cardinal Lot...

MDT Ep. 108: Concerning the End of the Interdict and a Vexatious Prophet

September 18, 2024 9:58pm 41 min

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 the prophesized end of King John's true sovereignty. Along the way, we also cove...

MDT Ep. 107: Concerning Portents, an Interdiction, Persecutions, Heresy, and a Year of Bloodshed

August 17, 2024 6:54pm 42 min

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 -- are so captivated by bad news. Today's Texts: The Chronicle of Melrose. Edited...

MDT Ep. 106: Concerning the Hard Work of a Housewife

May 12, 2024 11:33am 42 min

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 how he learns otherwise. Today's Text "Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband." Reliquiae ...

MDT Ep. 105: Concerning the Voice of the Golem

March 31, 2024 7:04pm 1:47

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 extended discussion of the role of AI in the future of medieval studies and par...

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