The Maniculum Podcast
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Aug 29, 2021
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Maniculum: little hand, pointing finger; often found in manuscript marginalia.
Hi! We’re Mac and Zoe, a professional medievalist and triple AAA game developer, and together, we use modern game design techniques to uncover the origins of your favorite tropes and adventures from medieval manuscripts.
In each episode, we explore a new medieval manuscript, its connections to modern TTRPGs, and teach you how to adapt these tales into compelling campaigns and amazing adventures. Whether you’re looking to recreate the noble Arthurian tales or incorporate weird and wacky medieval monsters into your campaign, the Maniculum Podcast has you covered.
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Medieval Necromancy for D&D: The Demon Alignment Chart
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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The Original Romantasy: The Medieval Romance of Erec & Enide
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Dungeons & Puzzles for D&D: A Selection from Medieval Texts
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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The Medieval Prisoner's Dilemma: Gesta Romanorum
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Fact & Fiction: Crafting Medieval Werewolf Tales for Fun and Profit
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Fact & Fiction: Real Irish Werewolf Tales
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May 17, 2025 |
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Necromancy Against Cheats and Other Stories: Gesta Romanorum
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May 03, 2025 |
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Fact & Fiction: the Faoladh, the Wulver, and Irish Werewolves
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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Medieval Philosophy Mad-Libs: The Game Show!
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Forger, Heiress, Postman, Spy: Prokopios' Final Episode!
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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The Party Therapist: The Knight in Panther's Skin
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Build-an-Exorcism: Medieval Necromancy in D&D
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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The History of Playing Cards, pt. 2: Back to the Beginning
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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The History of Playing Cards, pt. 1: Modern Day & Medieval Europe
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Scissors Beats Paper: Prokopios, Pt. 10
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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How Grendel Stole Christmas: A Beowulf Retelling
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Medieval Necromancy: Powered by Virginity & Thumbnails
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Three Wishes at Swordpoint: The Wooing of Emer, Pt 2
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Cu Chulainn's Glorious Feats: The Wooing of Emer, Pt. 1
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Halloween Special: The Bathroom Fiend Side Quest
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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The Grain Heist: Prokopios, Pt 9
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Law & Order: Scrying Vicars Unit (Necromancy!)
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Mandatory Government Matchmaking: Prokopios Pt. 8
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Necromance Me, Baby: Love Spells
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Byzantium's Moby Dick Problem: Prokopios, Pt 7
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Leechcraft: Plague, Vampires, and Leeches with Ainsley Sunday!
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Necromancy for D&D: Spell of Notice Me Senpai
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Down & Dirty with a Demon: Prokopios Pt. 6
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Necromancy: I Conjure You to Be Chill, Bro
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Outlawing Astrology: Prokopios Pt. 5
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Summon Party: An Introduction to Necromancy
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May 25, 2024 |
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Not to Worry; I Have a Permit: Medieval Fables
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May 18, 2024 |
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The Prince and the Prostitute: Prokopios, Pt. 4
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Huzzah! The TTRPG Quest Tournament
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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The Abbess Gambit: Eliduc Pt. 2
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Oh Ariana, We’re Really in It Now: Eliduc, Pt. 1
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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All Hail the King of Sports: The Nika Riots, Prokopios Pt. 3
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Valentine's Day Special: Magical and Medical Contraception
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Magic items 101: A Historical Guide for TTRPGs
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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On Wednesdays We Wear BLOOD: Prokopios Pt. 2
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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A Tournament of Love Affairs: The Dolorous Knight
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Christmas Special! Saint Nick Pt 2, or, The Miracle of Vehicular Manslaughter
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Yonec Pt. 2, or, Fairy-Tale Booty Calls
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Yonec Pt. 1, or, Bird-Man in Bondage
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Prokopios, Pt 1, or, the Flamin’ Hot Cheeto of Love
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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The Secret History, or, the Byzantine Gossip Rag, with Dr. Kaldellis
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Halloween Special! How to Deal with the Undead
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Le Fresne, or, Ye Olde Instagram Stalker
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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The Great Tang Records w/ Dr. Hartmann, Pt. 2, or Karmic Nepo Baby
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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The Great Tang Records with Dr. Hartmann, or, Reincarnation 101
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Guigemar, or, Nonstop Patriarchal Bullsh*t
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Gesta Romanorum Pt 6, or, How to Lie to God
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Lanval, or, Legally Hotter
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Two French Stories, or, Avian Lessons and Articulate Tweens
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Egil's Saga Pt. 7, or, A Captain Kirk Moment
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Pride! Trans Vikings and Ace Christians in the Middle Ages
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Happy Pride! Lesbians in the Middle Ages
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Egil's Saga, Pt 6, In Which Egil Might Be a Literal Bear
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May 27, 2023 |
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The Peasants' Revolt, Pt. 2, or, Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
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May 13, 2023 |
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May Day Special: the Peasants' Revolt Pt. 1
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Crispy's Tavern D&D Guest Episode!
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Sidrak & Bokkus, Pt. 2, or, Who Wants to be a Mystic?
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Sidrak & Bokkus, or, Raging Paladins Destroying Pagans with Facts and Logic
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Egil's Saga, Pt. 5, or Bootlicking Surprise
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Roll for References: Poison Books and Magical Libraries with Rare Book Historian Allie Alvis!
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Gesta Romanorum Pt. 5, or, Embezzling for Heaven
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Inside My Favorite Manuscript Guest Ep: Talking Book History in D&D!
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Egil's Saga Pt. 4, or Viking Bear Transfiguration
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Going Questing: a TTRPG Tournament
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Christmas Special: Saint Nick, or, Santa Claus F*cks Sh*t Up
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Guest Ep: Twitch Streaming and the Middle Ages in Gaming with Ludohistory!
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Greenlanders Saga, Pt 2, or, Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss 2: Boss Harder
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Thanksgiving Special: Greenlanders Saga, or, A Not-so-Meet-Cute
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Egil's Saga, Pt. 3, or, Warrior, Poet, Murderhobo
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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The Undead Halloween Episode, or, Kill It With Fire!
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Egil's Saga Pt. 2, or, A Legitimate Businessbear
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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The Story of King Constant, or, Close Your Womb; It’s a Scorpio
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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The Scribal Workshop, or, Talking with a Medieval Monk!
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Egil's Saga Pt. 1, or, Bard’s the Name, and Bard’s the Game
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Gesta Romanorum Pt. IV, or, Prince So Fine He Blows My Mind
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Perlesvaus, Pt X, or, Lancelot Oversees a Genocide
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Fafnir and Dragon Lore, or, The Hideous Transmogrification of Jeff Bezos
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Perlesvaus Pt. 9, or, Lancelot's Pull-Out Game
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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A Wider Variety of Articles, or, A Matter of Weevils
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Perlesvaus Pt. 8, or, the Rom-Com Quest
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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A Variety of Articles, or, Dick Magic
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May 28, 2022 |
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S1E50 - Perlesvaus Pt. 7, or, Smaller than a Breadfox
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May 14, 2022 |
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Old English Elegy, or, Pokemon: Wræclasta
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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4/20 Cannabis Special, or, the High Middle Ages
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Perlesvaus, Part 6, or, Giant Pillow (No, Literally)
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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The Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools, or, Drunken Fantasia
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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The Green Knight RPG, or, Everyone Should’ve Died
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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Perlesvaus, Pt. 5, or, Gawain’s Homoerotic Thirst
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Brendan the Navigator Pt. 2, or, New Heresy Just Dropped
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Brendan the Navigator, or, Resplendent Hot-Boi
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Perlesvaus, Pt. 4, or, The Sumptuary Laws of Target
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Christmas Sermons, or, A$$, son of A$$
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Perlesvaus, Pt. 3, or, the Murderhimbo and the Metaphor
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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Black Friday Special! A Thousand Thousand Islands with Zedeck Siew
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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Jelly Beef and Medieval Feasts, the Thanksgiving Special!
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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Perlesvaus, Pt. 2, or, Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Trick or Treat! Halloween Special
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Perlesvaus Pt. 1, or, Gawain Goes to the LARP
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Embassy to Constantinople, Pt. 2, or, The Worst Yelp Review
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Embassy to Constantinople, or, Diplomacy Through Melodrama
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or, Gawain Gets Fleshed Out
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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Great Tang Records on the Western Regions Pt. II, or, I Was a Bat Once
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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The Green Knight - Film and Fiction with BookSquadGoals
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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The Tain Bo Cuailnge, Pt. 4.5, or, Period Pains
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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The Tain Bo Cualinge, Pt. 4, or, Metaphor or STD?
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Oops, All Leeches! A Leechdom Special
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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Pride Month and Medieval Sexuality
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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The Tain Bo Cualinge Pt. 3, or, Animal Husbandry with Malicious Intent
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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The Gesta Romanorum, Pt. 3, or, Vote for Skin Chairs
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May 29, 2021 |
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The Seven Sleepers, Pt. 2, or, Once More With Feeling
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May 15, 2021 |
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The Seven Sleepers, Pt. 1, or, A Good Christian Mugging
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May 01, 2021 |
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The Tain Bo Cualinge Pt. 2, or, That Was Bad Cyning
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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The Easter Special, or, The Y6k Plague-of-Locusts
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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The Wonders of the East, Pt. 3: Ratings!
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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The Wonders of the East, Pt. 2, or, Everybody Can be a People
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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The Wonders of the East Part 1, or, Truly "Hot" Wings
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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The Tain Bo Cualinge, or, Royal Spousal Arguments 101
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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The Gesta Romanorum Pt. 2.5, or, A Starchy Sort of Tale
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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The Gesta Romanorum Pt. 2, or, My Husband's a Witch
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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Mac Da Tho's Pig, or, What's In YOUR Wallet?
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Great Tang Records on the Western Regions Pt. I, or D*ck in a Box
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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The Second Shepherds' Play, or, Time Traveling Yorkshiremen
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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Saga of Eirik the Red: Ratings & Rambles
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Saga of Eirik the Red Pt. 2, or Medieval Ghostbusting Etiquette
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Saga of Eirik the Red Pt. I, or, Old Icelandic Call-Out Culture
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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Samhain and Werewolves, or, The Liberal Art of Lycanthropy
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Niall Frossach's True Judgment, or Blushing Kings and Kinky Nuns
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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The Gesta Romanorum Pt. 1, or, The Virgin Mary Told Me to Do It
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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The Death of Mac Erca, or Who Gets Custody of the King?
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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The Tournament of Tottenham, or Emotional Support Chicken
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Welcome & Introduction
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Oct 03, 2020 |