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On Medieval Death Trip, we feature a selected medieval text (often historical, occasionally literary) that touches on the odd, the gruesome, the unexpected, and similarly curious incidents, images, or ideas. In addition to presenting the text itself, each episode features commentary and musings upon that text.
Concerning the Green Children of Woolpit and Other Prodigies
Medieval Death Trip
1 hour 3 minutes 59 seconds
1 year ago
Concerning the Green Children of Woolpit and Other Prodigies
This Halloween marks our 10th anniversary, and we observe it by hearing the earliest written accounts of one of the most well-known pieces of medieval weird history: the Green Children of Woolpit -- and also hear the other less famous prodigies their story was originally presented alongside.
Today's Texts:
Radulphi de Coggeshall. Chronicon Anglicanum. Edited by Joseph Stevenson, Longman & Co., 1875. Google Books.
William of Newburgh. The History of William of Newburgh. The Church Historians of England, vol. IV, part II, translated by Joseph Stevenson, Seeleys, 1856, pp. 395–670. Google Books.
Chapters
00:00:00: Introduction
00:06:32: Text: from Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicon Anglicanum
00:15:36: Commentary
00:24:31: Text: Ch. 27 & 28 from William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum
00:35:10: Commentary
00:58:25: Riddle
01:01:13: Outro
Medieval Death Trip
On Medieval Death Trip, we feature a selected medieval text (often historical, occasionally literary) that touches on the odd, the gruesome, the unexpected, and similarly curious incidents, images, or ideas. In addition to presenting the text itself, each episode features commentary and musings upon that text.
