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Karen:

The Great Famine of 1315

Episode sources:

  1. “The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century” by William C. Jordan (1996)

  2. “The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century” by William Rosen (2014)

  3. “From the Brink of the Apocalypse” by John Aberth (2000)

  4. “Hansel and Gretel” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

  5. “Last Things: Death & Apocalypse in the Middle Ages” by Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman (2000)

  6. “Market Failure during the Great Famine in England and Wales (1315-7): Re-assessment of the Institutional Side of the Crisis” by Philip Slavin (McGill University) 2013

  7. “The Great European Famine of 1315, 1316, and 1317” by Henry S. Lucas (Speculum) 1930

  8. “The Great Famine: 1315–1317” (Smith College)

  9. “10 Things to Know About the Great Famine” (Medievalists.net)

  10. “The Great Famine: 1315–1322 Revisited” by William Chester Jordan (Medievalists.net)

  11. “A quantitative hydroclimatic context for the European Great Famine of 1315–1317” by Seung H. Baek, Jason E. Smerdon, George-Costin Dobrin, Jacob G. Naimark, Edward R. Cook, Benjamin I. Cook, Richard Seager, Mark A. Cane & Serena R. Scholz. (Nature) 2020

  12. “The Great Famine of 1315 – Frequently Asked Questions” (Arizona Geographic Alliance / APS Foundation)

  13. “Inside the Walls: Exploring Medieval Towns” by Alixe Bovey (British Library) 2015

  14. “The Next Great Famine” by Amy Davidson Sorkin (New Yorker) 2016

  15. “Life in Medieval Towns” (History Alive!)

  16. “The Great Famine: 1315 – 1317” by Donna Kimbap (About History)

  17. “Hansel and Gretel And Other Siblings Forsaken in Forests” by Amelia Carruthers (2015)

  18. “What was life like in medieval society?” (BBC)

  19. “Black Death” (History) 2010

  20. “The Medieval Chronicle” (The Medieval Chronicle Society)

  21. “How the Middle Ages Really Were” by Tim O’Neill (HuffPost) 2014

  22. “Abandoned Children and Wish Fulfillment: Hansel and Gretel” by Mari Ness (Tor) 2017

  23. “Medicine in the Middle Ages” by Sigrid Goldiner (Met Museum)

  24. “Life in Medieval Europe” (Library & Innovation Centre, Presbyterian Ladies’ College)

  25. “Medieval warm period” by John P Rafferty (Britannica)

  26. “Great Flood and Great Famine of 1314” by Ben Johnson (Historic UK)

  27. “Feudalism” (Lumen Learning)

  28. “Ergotism and Saint Anthony’s Fire” by Andrzej Grzybowski, Katarzyna Pawlikowska-Łagód, and Agnieszka Polak (Clinics in Dermatology) 2021

  29. “St. Anthony’s Fire, the Salem Witch Trials and the Beatles” by Joe Scwarcz (Macgill)

  30. “Everyday Life in the Middle Ages” (BBC Bitesize)

  31. “London’s Population” London Datastore

  32. “Peasants and their role in rural life” by Alixe Bovey (British Library)

  33. “History 3225 Reader: Medieval Britain, 500-1500” by Robert J. Mueller (Utah State University)

  34. “Who were the peasants in the Middle Ages?” by Lucie Laumonier (Medievalists.net)

  35. “In the 1950s, Hundreds of People Started Hallucinating Visions of Hell” by Sebastien Wesolowski (Vice)

  36. “Ergotism in Norway. Part 1: The symptoms and their interpretation from the late Iron Age to the seventeenth century” by Torbjørn Alm and Brita Elvevåg (History of Psychology)

  37. “The psychology of hunger” by Dr. David Baker and Natacha Keramidas (American Psychological Association)

  38. “Medieval Prices and Wages” by David Crowther (The History of England)

Georgia:

The history of the mummy trade

Episode sources:

  1. “Unwrapping, Grinding Up, Eating – European History of Mummies Is Truly Disturbing” by Marcus Harmes (The Conversation)

  2. “Why did people start eating Egyptian mummies? The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe” by Marcus Harmes (The Conversation)

  3. “‘Mumia': The strange history of human remains...as medicine” by Dr Maria Cohut (Medical News Today)

  4. “Mummy as a Drug” by Warren Dawson

  5. “The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine” by Maria Dolan (Smithsonian Magazine) 

  6. “Ground Up Mummies Were Once an Ingredient in Paint” by Rose Eveleth (Smithsonian Magazine)

  7. “Egyptian Mumia: The Sixteenth Century Experience and Debate” by Karl H. Dannenfeldt

  8. “Why Did People Eat Mummies?” by Jill Sullivan (The Haunted Walk)

  9. “Using a mummy as a medicine” by Peter Homan (Pharmaceutical Journal)

  10. “Mummies and the Usefulness of Death” by Mariel Carr (Science History)

  11. The “Rare Historical Photos” website

  12. “Victorian Party People Unrolled Mummies For Fun” by Dimitra Nikolaidou (Atlas Obscura)

  13. “Disrespect and Desecration at Victorian Mummy Unwrapping Parties” by Wu Mingren (Ancient Origins)

  14. “Egyptian Mummies – to unwrap or not to unwrap?” by Wu Mingren (Ancient Origins)

  15. “Uncovering the Dead at a Victorian Mummy Unwrapping Party” by Natasha Wynarczyk (Vice)

  16. “Real-life tomb raiders: Egypt's $US3 billion smuggling problem” by Walt Curnow 

  17. “5 PLACES TO SEE AMAZING MUMMY COLLECTIONS (OUTSIDE OF EGYPT)” by Sean McLachlan (The Scout Project) 

  18. “Unexpected Places You’ll Find Mummies” by Audrey Farnsworth (Fodors)

  19. “THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MUMMY BROWN” by Philip McCouat (Art in Society)

  20. “The Thorny Ethics of Displaying Egyptian Mummies to the Public” by Doug Struck (Undark)

  21. “7 famous mummies and secrets they've revealed about the ancient world” by Stephanie Pappas (Live Science)

  22. “6 famous mummies and the fascinating stories behind them” (India Today)

  23. “10 Oldest Mummies in the World” (Oldest.org)

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