Episode 59: The Real MedEELval Times
Ask a Medievalist
English - December 14, 2022 03:42 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Synopsis Famous eels: 1/ “Those are the shrieking eels. You don’t believe me? Just wait. They always grow louder when they’re about to feed on human flesh.” (Name that movie.) 2/ Mark Oliver Everett 3/ Medieval eel rents! The medieval church, famously, had a lot of restrictions on what people could eat and when—during Lent, …