Ep 158 - Weird Medieval 1: Stealing the Secrets to Silk
Added 2024-03-13 13:00:11 +0000 UTChello patrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode.
folks, we've started a new series and this one is all about Weird Medieval shit. the Middle Ages were an incredibly fascinating time and we want to celebrate and emphasize that by looking at the events, people, and things that make you go, "damn that's wild." we're going to cover stuff from all across the entire one-thousand-year Medieval era and on every continent save Antarctica. in this first part, we take a look at the following three events: that time Justinian I sent two monks to China to steal the secrets of silk for the Byzantines, the Erfurt Latrine Disaster that killed sixty nobles in a lake of shit, and the Fourth Crusade that permanently split Christendom forever.
Comments
Always keep 3 drinks on hand
Kurtis
2024-04-07 16:54:02 +0000 UTC7 hours edging / 6 hours drama / 2 hours of sleep what an incredible day
Peter Mountain
2024-03-15 02:02:00 +0000 UTCThe ultimate Byznissnesman’s daily routine: 3:00am: wake up to the sound of Greek fire 3:05am: edge to an icon of the Emperor 7:00am: anaerobic workout with my “workout like a Varangian operator” class. 7:30am: trade invisible solidus aka. “Bitsolidus” in the marketplace 3:00pm: edge to icon of the empress 6:00pm: tip my landlord 7:00pm: watch plays that are tragedies of a brilliant but solitary and misunderstood men like me. 1:00am: drink my proprietary blend of theriac (it’s an adaptogen) and sleep fitfully.
Colin Keesee
2024-03-14 20:23:56 +0000 UTC
