Episode 31: Why did people drink so much beer in the middle ages?
A few books and articles I read for this one.
The main two were standard books on the history of beer and ale:
Ian Hornsey, 2003, A History of Beer and Brewing. RSC
Richard Unger, 2004, Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Then a few articles and books on specific aspects:
Charles Bamforth, 2004, Beer: Health and Nutrition. Blackwell had a lot on beer as a health food in the middle ages, and defences of beer.
Franz Meussdoerffer, 2009, A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing, in Handbook of Brewing: Processes, Technology, Markets, ed. HM Ersslinger.
Eline Poelmans and Johan Swinnen, A Brief Economic History of Beer in The Economics of Beer, ed. JFM Swinnen.
This is Tofi Kerthjalfadsson's 1998 experiments in making authentic medieval beer while trying to to give himeself lead poisoning (wimp). https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pwp/tofi/medieval_english_ale.html
Episode 30: What links an actress, and empress and a goose?
The only thing you need for this episode is some Propertius.
Here's his incredibly sycophantic litany of Justinian and Theodora's buildings:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Buildings/home.html
and here's the good shit: The Secret History:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Anecdota/home.html
Episode 28: Lebensborn
Reading
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/world/europe/07nazi.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15548608/ns/world_news-europe/t/secret-nazi-lebensborn-children-go-public/#.XGBGuDP7TRY
https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/woman-birth-hitler-lebensborn-aryan-child-hildegard-trutz-germany/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/nazi-program-to-breed-master-race-lebensborn-children-break-silence-a-446978.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-quot-lebensborn-quot-program
Olsen, Kare, 2005. Under the Care of Lebensborn: Norwegian War Mothers and Their Children in Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy edited by Kjersti Ericsson, Eva Simonsen
Dorothee Schmitz-Köster, A Topic for Life: Children of German Lebensborn Homes in Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy edited by Kjersti Ericsson, Eva Simonsen
Von Oelhafen, I and Tate, T. 2015. Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity.
Episode 27: Viking and Mongolian Women
Some secondary sources for the episode:
Henenstierna-Jonson, C, et al. 2017. 'A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics' American Journal of Physical Anthropology 164.4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23308
de Nicola, B. 2013. Ruling from tents: the existence and structure of women’ ordos in Ilkhanid Iran. In: Robert Hillenbrand; A.C.S. Peacock and Firuza Abdullaeva, eds. Ferdowsi, The Mongols and Iranian History: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia. London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 116-136.
De Nicola, B. 2010. Women’s Role and Participation in Warfare in the Mongol Empire. In: K. Klaus Latzel; S. Satjukow and F. Maubach, eds. Soldatinnen. Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis Heute. Paderborn: Schöningh, pp. 95-112.
De Nicola, B. 2018. Women in Mogol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335. Edinburgh University Press.
Weatherford, J. 2010. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens. Penguin.
The Secret History of the Mongols in various languages http://altaica.ru/e_SecretH.php
Clover, C.J. "Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe," Speculum 68, no. 2 (Apr., 1993): 363-387.
Jesch, J. 1991. Women in the Viking Age. The Boydell Press.
Diaz-Andreu, M and Sorenson, M.L.S. 1998. Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology. Routledge.
Jochens, J. 1995. Women in Old Norse Society. Cornell University Press.
Magnusdottir, A.G. 2008. Women and Sexual Politics in: S. Brink and N. Price, The Viking World. Routledge. 40-48.
Episode 26: Time!
Not much reading for this one tbh pals. But here's some Phantom Time Hypothesis stuff.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/who-lost-the-middle-ages.html
And here's Heribert Illig on the YouTubes (in German)
Episode 25: Witch Trials
Moshe Sluhovsky, The Devil in the Convent, The American Historical Review 107(5) 2002. 1379-1411.
Michel de Certeau, The Possession at Loudun. 1990.
Brian A. Pavlac, Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials. 2009.
Bengt Ankaraloo, Stuart Clerk and William Monter, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials. 202.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-witches-of-salem
The pact signed by Germain and the demons and stolen from Satan's very own filing cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudun_possessions#/media/File:UrbainPact2.jpg
Episode 24: Quick Christmas Questions
Incomplete references:
Weintraub, Stanley 2001. Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas truce. London: Pocket
Mike Dash. 2011. The Story of the WW1 Christmas Truce. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/
Rachel Foxley. 2015. Christmas Under Cromwell. https://unireadinghistory.com/2015/12/11/christmas-under-cromwell/
Episode 23: What’s the History of the Crimson Wave?
Elissa Stein and Susan Kim. 2009. Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation.
Rahul Wasserfall. 1999. Women and Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law.
Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, Emily Toth. 1976. The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation.
Chris Knight. 1991. Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture.
Lara Friedenfelds. 2009. The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twenty-First Century America.
Sara Read. 2013. Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England.
Glenda Lewin Hufnagal. 2012. A History of Women’s Menstruation from Ancient Greece to the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Social, Religious, Medical and Educational Issues,
Helen King. 2014. The History of Tampons - in Ancient Greece? https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2014/11/the-history-of-tampons-in-ancient-greece.html
Helen King. 2016. Period pains – have women always suffered from menstrual cramps? https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2016/10/period-pains-have-women-always-suffered-from-menstrual-cramps.html
The Museum of Menstruation - www.mum.org.
Greg Jenner. 2015. History of Periods https://www.gregjenner.com/history-of-periods-and-tampons/
Episode 22: What’s the History of Albinism
Enrico Pasini. 2016. ‘A Prodigious Bodily Nature: Debates on Albinism 1609-1745. Natureza, causalidade e formas de corporeidade. 193-236. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1632037#.W-bd3ZP7REY
Andrew Curran. 2009. ‘Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the French Enlightenment Life Sciences.’ History and Theory 43.9. 151-179.
Charles D. Martin. 2002. The White African American Body@ A Cultural and Literary Exploration.
Christopher Hohl and Matthias Krings. 2018. ‘Extraordinarily White: The De/Spectacularization of the Albinotic Body and the Normalization of Its Audience’ . In: Liebelt C., Böllinger S., Vierke U. (eds) Beauty and the Norm. Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment. 75-103
Vera Illugadóttir. 2015. “The Invasion of the Ice Family: That Time a Group of Albinos Drove Icelanders Crazy.” The Reykjavik Grapevine (15): 30. https://issuu.com/rvkgrapevine/docs/issue_15_2015_master_issuu_all
Tom Jack, The Ice King. https://www.thehumanmarvels.com/tom-jack-the-ice-king/
V. Ö. Vilhálmsson. 2013. Tom Jack and His Family. https://fornleifur.blog.is/blog/fornleifur/entry/1301961/
WUWM. 2014. Former Fashion Photographer Aims to Create 'New Standard of Beauty' Beyond Physical Differences. https://www.wuwm.com/podcast/lake-effect-segments/2014-04-04/former-fashion-photographer-aims-to-create-new-standard-of-beauty-beyond-physical-differences#stream/0
United Nations. ND. People With Albinism: Stories. https://albinism.ohchr.org/stories.html
Wendy Mothata. 2018. ‘It’s About Time We Treat People with Albinism as Human Beings not Ghosts’ SA People News. https://www.sapeople.com/2018/04/17/its-about-time-we-treat-people-with-albinism-as-human-beings-not-ghosts/
AP. 2015. ‘These albino children hunted in Africa will break your heart’ NY Post. https://nypost.com/2015/08/18/africas-hunted-albino-children-receive-new-limbs-new-hope/
BlackGirlWhiteSkin. 2015. Historic Art Installation at National Museum. https://medium.com/@nataliedevora/historic-art-installation-at-national-museum-e0ddbb383be1
Episode 22: What’s The History of Omens?
M Radford & E. Radford. 1947. Encyclopedia of Superstitions
Mark Menjivar. 2015. The Luck Archive. https://cargocollective.com/menjivar
Stuart A. Vyse. 1997. Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition.
Robert L. Park. 2008. Superstition: Belief in an Age of Science.
Michael Shermer. 1997. Why People Believe in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time.
Torunn Selberg. 2010. ‘Taking Superstition Seriously.’ Folklore 114.3. 297-306.
Jan Fidrmuc. 2015. ‘Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck. Kyklos 68.3. 317-334.#