Episode 148: Predictable (ad-free) (Patreon)
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2020-08-03 06:01:03
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2024-03
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If history has shown us anything, it’s that humans are easily motivated by fear. Just what some of those fears have been, though, is more than a little frightening.
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Further Reading
- “Archaeology of the Underworld: In Search of the Ancient Greek ‘Necromanteion’”, Mysterious Universe, July 2017, https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/07/archaeology-of-the-underworld-in-search-of-the-ancient-greek-necromanteion.
- “1441: Margery Jourdemayne, the Witch of Eye,” Executed Today, October 27, 2014 http://www.executedtoday.com/2014/10/27/1441-margery-jourdemayne-the-witch-of-eye.
- “The Rise and Fall of Eleanor Cobham,” History of Royal Women, November 11, 2018. https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/eleanor-cobham/the-rise-and-fall-of-eleanor-cobham.
- “Margery Jourdemayne,” History Naked, October 31, 2015 http://www.historynaked.com/margery-jourdemayne.
- “Witches in Britain,” Historic UK, https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Witches-in-Britain.
- “Royal Sorceress: The Chilling Trial and Punishment of Duchess Eleanor Cobham,” The Vintage News, February 19, 2018. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/19/eleanor-cobham.
- Francis Young, Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History (Bloomsbury, 2017).
- Phillipa Gregory and David Baldwn Michael Jones, The Women of the Cousins’ War: The Real White Queen and Her Rivals (Simon and Schuster, 2011).
- “Medieval royal witches: from Elizabeth Woodville to Queen Joan of Navarre,” History Extra, https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-royal-witches-from-elizabeth-woodville-to-queen-joan-of-navarre.
- John Ashdown-Hill, Royal Marriage Secrets: Consorts & Concubines, Bigamists & Bastards (The History Press, 2013).
- John Ashdown-Hill, The Wars of the Roses (Amberley Publishing Limited, October 15, 2015).
- “Henry VI may have had a “sex coach” – plus 4 more curious facts about his life,” History Extra, https://www.historyextra.com/period/plantagenet/king-henry-vi-facts-life-death-reign-marriage-sex-coach-wife-illness-mental-health-mysterious-strange.
- “Henry VI,” BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/henry_vi_king.shtml.
- “John, Duke of Bedford,” English Monarchs, http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_63.html.