Synopsis Are butts the most medieval of body parts? From the Wild Man to Chaucer to good old Michelangelo, lets pontificate about the posterior. Do you need more of a pitch than that? Notes 0/ Preord

Summary A long time ago, people were pure at heart. Of course, sex happened occasionally, but no one took off their clothes for itthat would be gauche. Then James Joyce wrote a book called Ulysses an

1/ EB White was a rather nice, shy guy who wrote for the New Yorker and hid from his admirers. TH White was a weirdo who lived on the edge of the woods in the UK. EB White is the White of Strunk & Whi

Summary Early on, a friend of the podcast asked if we were going to cover chivalry. Because really, when you think of the Middle Ages, this is it, right? Knights in very shiny armor on beautiful horse

Summary The other day, I asked a friend, Hey, what do normal people put on their walls? The answeris tapestries. Cold, stony castle? Tapestries. Small, plain cathedral? Tapestries. A house of some

Summary Its wintertime in the Northern hemisphere! Snow is, of course, eternal, but did you ever wonder how far back the tradition of making snowpeople goes? Jesse did. Join us as we trace the histor

Synopsis Once upon a time there was a guy named Gawain, and someone made a movie about him! And he got to be played by Dev Patel, which is pretty great when you get down to it. And then we covered it!

Synopsis Famous eels: 1/ Those are the shrieking eels. You dont believe me? Just wait. They always grow louder when theyre about to feed on human flesh. (Name that movie.) 2/ Mark Oliver Everett 3

Summary A lot of stuff about Richards II and III for a podcast thats supposed to be about queens. Also Mathildas, Boudica, and why Black Panther is more historically accurate than Wonder Woman. Notes

Synopsis As a memorial to Elizabeth II, Em and Jesse discuss famous queens throughout history and mostly in the UK, including drag queens, the borough of Queens, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, Elizabeth I,