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Episode 4: Passover and Easter, pt. 2
Ask a Medievalist
English - May 07, 2020 15:08 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 3: Passover and Easter, part 1
Next Episode: Episode 5: Hermits and Anchoresses
Summary Em and Jesse continue their discussion of Passover and Easter, including the Venerable Bede’s take on Easter’s pagan origins, blood libel, and some long digressions about monasteries, Pope Francis, Saint Francis, and Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Annotations, Citations, and Corrections 1/ [1:44] Miriam: We actually didn’t talk about her at all in the first …