Contraception, Birth Rituals & The Feast of Fools: Bizarre Things Considered Normal in Medieval Era
Before the Enlightenment the Medievals had no choice but to use their imaginations to make sense of the world around them. Because of the enormous influence that the Church held over their daily lives...
22 Dec 202210min
Blinding, De-Nailing & Branding: Gruesome Medieval Punishments for Low-Level Criminals...
During the Middle Ages, it was felt that the people needed to be afraid of the Civil authority and the Church. The only way to keep order was to make sure that the citizens were terrified of any punis...
20 Dec 202212min
The Story of Sir William Wallace: One Time Guardian of Scotland
When the Scots were oppressed, and Scottish fortunes were at their lowest he was the chief inspiration for their resistance. A man who stood up to the King of England, Edward I, emerging from obscurit...
15 Dec 202212min
The Disturbing Medieval Story of Ermine de Reims...
Almost every night, for the last ten years of her life, Ermine de Reims was systematically battered and tortured by demons. How did a 14th century peasant woman get caught up in a number of religious ...
13 Dec 202211min
Convicting & Sentencing Animals to Death During The Middle Ages
The town of Falaise, Normandy, Northwest France. The year 1386. The murderer had sneaked into the couples home. The husband, Jonnet the Builder was away helping to erect a nearby church while his wife...
8 Dec 202211min
Stocks, Pillories & Whipping Posts | A Very Embarrassing & Painful Medieval Punishment
Public humiliation was a major part of both corporal and capital punishment during the Middle Ages. In small communities, those being admonished would be well known to everyone else, and having the ac...
6 Dec 202211min
Hanged, Drawn & Quartered: The Most Inhuman Medieval Punishment Ever Invented
This has to be one of the most inhuman forms of punishment ever invented and was the most extreme penalty available in English law for those guilty of high treason, which was considered the most serio...
1 Dec 202212min
Hanging and Gibbeting: A Medieval Torture of Unbearable Pain & Humiliation
Probably the most common form of execution and the first one that people think about in regard to Medieval executions, hanging was the usual method of capital punishment for the Anglo Saxons. Other me...
29 Nov 202210min
