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Medieval Death Trip

A podcast exploring the wit and weirdness of medieval texts

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MDT Ep. 81: Concerning More Descriptions of the Plague

MDT Ep. 81: Concerning More Descriptions of the Plague

As life under quarantine begins to enter a new phase, we continue our survey of plague texts, with a grab-bag of selecti... Read more

26 May 2020

42mins

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MDT Episode 02: Concerning Another Cure for Extreme Swelling, a Sinful Clerk, & Some Lightning Bolts

MDT Episode 02: Concerning Another Cure for Extreme Swelling, a Sinful Clerk, & Some Lightning Bolts

On this episode, we look at an example of the kind of odd incidents you might find preserved in a medieval chronicle -- ... Read more

14 Nov 2014

26mins

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MDT Ep. 80: Concerning Boccaccio's Description of the Plague

MDT Ep. 80: Concerning Boccaccio's Description of the Plague

We return at last for our first episode of 2020 in the midst of the covid-19 global pandemic. As such, our text for toda... Read more

26 Mar 2020

50mins

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MDT Episode 03: Concerning a Vision of Heaven and Hell and a Bad Outlook for the Bishop

MDT Episode 03: Concerning a Vision of Heaven and Hell and a Bad Outlook for the Bishop

First episode in a two-parter: we look at story from Symeon of Durham's History of the Church of Durham involving a pers... Read more

28 Nov 2014

23mins

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MDT Ep. 55: Concerning Good Wine, Bad Ships, and Baked Soldiers

MDT Ep. 55: Concerning Good Wine, Bad Ships, and Baked Soldiers

In the second installment of our medieval travelers series, we follow Marco Polo into the deserts of Iran and learn abou... Read more

15 Aug 2018

42mins

Ranked #6

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MDT Ep. 52: Concerning St. Patrick and the Magicians

MDT Ep. 52: Concerning St. Patrick and the Magicians

It's a special Saint Patrick's Day episode, in which we hear about the contests between the saint and some Irish magicia... Read more

17 Mar 2018

31mins

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MDT Ep. 79: Concerning Cursed Christmas Carolers and an Unlikely Bishop

MDT Ep. 79: Concerning Cursed Christmas Carolers and an Unlikely Bishop

This Christmas Eve episode, we return to the Gesta Regum Anglorum of William of Malmesbury, to learn hear some legends o... Read more

23 Dec 2019

29mins

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MDT Ep. 61: Concerning the Invention of Chess

MDT Ep. 61: Concerning the Invention of Chess

We kick off a holiday miniseries of chess lore from William Caxton's The Game and the Playe of the Chesse with one versi... Read more

29 Nov 2018

43mins

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MDT Ep. 47: Concerning Ragnarok

MDT Ep. 47: Concerning Ragnarok

This episode we tap into the Ragnarok zeitgeist and go back to the medieval Norse sources: Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginni... Read more

22 Nov 2017

50mins

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MDT Episode 04: The Violent Death of Bishop Walcher

MDT Episode 04: The Violent Death of Bishop Walcher

Episode 4 continues the story of the murder of Bishop Walcher of Durham foreseen in our previous episode. Text from Sime... Read more

13 Dec 2014

21mins

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MDT Ep. 76: Concerning a Glimpse into 15th-Century School Life

MDT Ep. 76: Concerning a Glimpse into 15th-Century School Life

We return from our hiatus with an exploration of life in Tudor grammar school classroom, as described in a compilation o... Read more

23 Oct 2019

30mins

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MDT Ep. 36: Concerning the Depredations of King John

MDT Ep. 36: Concerning the Depredations of King John

This episode we look at the less than stellar reputation of King John during the First Barons' War, as recounted in the ... Read more

18 Feb 2017

37mins

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MDT Ep. 46: Concerning the Giant of Mont St. Michel

MDT Ep. 46: Concerning the Giant of Mont St. Michel

This Halloween marks our third anniversary, and we ring in our fourth year with two versions of King Arthur's famous bat... Read more

1 Nov 2017

44mins

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MDT Ep. 68: The Confession of St. Patrick (Part 1)

MDT Ep. 68: The Confession of St. Patrick (Part 1)

This March, we're going back to one of the earliest surviving St. Patrick texts, his own autobiographical Confessio. Thi... Read more

12 Mar 2019

45mins

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MDT Ep. 72: An Icelandic Vision of the Afterlife

MDT Ep. 72: An Icelandic Vision of the Afterlife

This episode we take a look at Sólarljóð, an Old Norse poem that mixes a Christian tour of heaven and hell with the styl... Read more

9 May 2019

53mins

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MDT Episode 18: Concerning the Lai of Bisclavret, the Werewolf

MDT Episode 18: Concerning the Lai of Bisclavret, the Werewolf

This episode we celebrate our one-year anniversary on Halloween, with the tale of a mistreated werewolf: the Lai of Bisc... Read more

1 Nov 2015

47mins

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MDT Ep. 35: Concerning Some Astronomical Anomalies and Meteorological Marvels

MDT Ep. 35: Concerning Some Astronomical Anomalies and Meteorological Marvels

This episode we celebrate the winter's solstice with a grab-bag of comets, eclipses, and meteors, as well as earthquake... Read more

21 Dec 2016

36mins

Ranked #18

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MDT Episode 27: Concerning Another Take on the Love of Edgar and Aelfthryth

MDT Episode 27: Concerning Another Take on the Love of Edgar and Aelfthryth

On this episode, get a different version of the story of Edgar's love for the married Aelfthryth, this time in a blendin... Read more

7 Jul 2016

51mins

Ranked #19

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MDT Ep. 77: Concerning Some Demons of the Lanercost Chronicle (and a Revenant)

MDT Ep. 77: Concerning Some Demons of the Lanercost Chronicle (and a Revenant)

This Halloween, we celebrate our fifth anniversary with five terrifying tales of demonic activity from the Lanercost Chr... Read more

1 Nov 2019

27mins

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MDT Ep. 40: Fear and Trembling in Durham Cathedral

MDT Ep. 40: Fear and Trembling in Durham Cathedral

This episode is the first in our three-part series looking at encounters with the remains of St. Cuthbert, starting in t... Read more

5 Jun 2017

54mins

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