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Zombies in Thietmar of Merseburg
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Mar 2, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
(Lucy) Why did commoners and kings in eleventh-century Germany keep seeing dead people? Why did a bunch of animated corpses decide to burn a priest alive? And why did a busy bishop write all this down?
Released:
Mar 2, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Lepers and Leprosy in the 13th Century: (Lucy) Reactions to medieval lepers were often extreme. Medieval romance-writers depict them as not only disease-ridden but filthy, and morally suspect to boot. Saints, on the other hand, ran around kissing them. More ordinary people just asked lepers to by Footnoting History