In today's episode we examine the role women played in the economy of the middle ages. Spoilers: it was pretty big.

Ben Jacobs of Wittenberg to Westphalia and Sam Hume of the History of Witchcraft sat down for a chat about witch panics, memes, authority, and the importance of getting angry while also staying calm. https://paxbritannica.info/episode-list/ https://w...

Sex for commoners and nobles and...nuns?

The first half of a look at the way women's status in the middle ages was determined by their sexuality. https://www.blackwallstreet-1921.com/

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In the last few episodes we discussed the issue of groups that do not fit comfortably into the concept of normal that any society sets up. Today we will begin to discuss the most strange and terrifying minority of all: women. Also congrats to Andrew ...

In today's episode we discuss the complex set of ideological, political, and economic processes that impacted the lives of non-normative populations in Medieval Europe, and how this affected daily life.  There's a lot going on in t...

Today we learn about the cat in question.

How do we deal with difference? This is one of the most fundamental questions humans confront when organizing societies, from the moment on the playground when we realize that the other kids might hold different views from us on things like the rules o...

In today's episode we interview a genuine lapsed Catholic to learn about the religious life of a normal person in the modern Catholic Church. This is methodologically problematic, but we are going for a flavor not like gospel truth. Andrew had ...