Our Advent Calendar (on Instagram) this year takes the form of a journaling game where day by day you will construct a saint's life for a very unusual individual.

See how to play at medievaldeathtrip.com/lscc2025/ and find the game on Instagram @medievaldeathtrip or search IG for #MDTAdvent25.

For our Patreon patrons: a Thanksgiving treat in the form of an appendix to Ep. 118, in which we hear more from Sir Walter Scott on the link between fairy folklore and witchcraft in early modern Scotland.

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Finally, after unexpected delays (spelled P-N-E-U-M-O-N-I-A), our eleventh anniversary is here. Join us as we trace the folkloric history of the redcap from the 21st century back into the 12th. It's Ep. 118: "Concerning Redcaps."
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Happy Labor Day weekend -- you can't get any more relaxed than dead! Here is Ep. 116, in which we tour the afterlife with two accounts from the Venerable Bede.
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For our Patreon supporters, an appendix to Ep. 115 ("The Voyage of the Uí Corra" Part 2) is now available. This time, we visit another strange island on a less saintly journey, following the Red-Rose Knight to the Island of Women, from the Elizabethan book by Richard Johnson.

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We're about to kick off the festive season with Episode 111, so here is its mystery word: Glop.

Image via blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/08/page/2/

Ep. 108 is coming soon. Here is its riddle: "Great deeds with little strength I do,
I close the open, ope the closed for you.
I keep the master's house, the master keeps me, too."

The editing team (pictured) is hard at work polishing the new episode, so here is its mystery word to consider in the meantime: ebiresse.

New episode coming this week; its riddle is below. Also, I am at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University for the next four days -- I hope to see some of you there!

Image: Detail of Mary fighting the devil (British Library Add MS 49999, fol. 40v, ca. 1240)

We kick off 2024 with our longest episode to date -- from legends of the Golem of Prague, we proceed to an extended consideration of generative AI and how it might affect medieval studies (or, at least, this show).
#golem #medievalAI
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Editing is almost done on our next episode, so here is its mystery word for you consideration: dyrne.

Happy Valentine's Day from Medieval Death Trip! And as a a preview of the topic of our upcoming episode, here are some attempts by DALL-E to generate images of a golem made from Valentine's conversation hearts in medieval Prague.

#medievalvalentine