Episode 48: History’s Greatest Poisonings
John Emsley, 2006. The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison.
Phyllis Granoff. 1993. The Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jaina Literature
https://web.archive.org/web/20070303182947/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/angels/female_nurses/5.html
Robertson, AG. Contact Poisons: A Brief Touch. Australian Military Medicine Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001 Aug: 70-1
Livy. History of Rome, Bk. 8 c. 18
ABC. 2011. Recipe For Murder, ABC Documentary on the Australian Thallium Craze (trailer here https://www.screenhub.com.au/news-article/reviews/film/richard-watts/recipe-for-murder-184053)
Nepovimova, E., Kuca, K. 2019. The history of poisoning: from ancient times until modern ERA. Arch Toxicol 93, 11–24 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-018-2290-0
Una McIvenna, 2016. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici.
Retief, F.P. & Cilliers, L. 2000. Poisoning during the Renaissance: The Medicis and the Borgias,1017-3455,The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549361
Lynn Wood Mollenauer, 2007. Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France.
Karamanou M, Androutsos G, Hayes AW, Tsatsakis A. 2018. Toxicology in the Borgias period: The mystery of Cantarella poison. Toxicology Research and Application. January 2018.
Episode 47: The History of Pets
Erika Fudge. Pets. 2008.
Katherine C. Greer. Pets in America: A History.
Michael MacKinnon. ‘Pets.’ in The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. 2014.
Anthony L. Podberscek, Elizabeth S. Paul, James A. Serpell. Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships Between People and Pets. 2000.
Amy Nelson ‘Bringing the Beast Back In: The Rehabilitation of Pet Keeping in Soviet Russia
Companion Animals’ in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures. 2016.
The Domestication of Cats: The History of the Only Domesticated Felidae Species and Their Relationship with Humans. 2020.
Gavin Ehringer. Leaving the wild: the unnatural history of dogs, cats, cows, and horses. 2017.
Donald Engels. Classical Cats: The Rise and FAll of the Sacred Cat. 2001.
Maria Garb. Egyptian cats, Anatolian cats and Vikings: Separating evidence from fiction about the cat domestication. https://www.anadolukedisi.com/en/cat-domestication-fiction-evidence/
Carlos A. Driscoll, David W. Macdonald, and Stephen J. O'Brien. From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication. https://www.pnas.org/content/106/Supplement_1/9971#sec-3
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=ayn
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-origin-of-dogs/484976/
https://www.anadolukedisi.com/en/cat-domestication-fiction-evidence/
Carolin Johansson. The Origin of the Egyptian Domestic Cat. Uppsala Univerity. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:560231/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Heidi G. Parker, Dayna L. Dreger, Maud Rimbault, Brian W. Davis, Alexandra B. Mullen, Gretchen Carpintero-Ramirez, Elaine A. Ostrander. Genomic Analyses Reveal the Influence of Geographic Origin, Migration, and Hybridization on Modern Dog Breed Development. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdfExtended/S2211-1247(17)30456-4
Episode 46: How Long Has The Idea of Extraterrestrial Beings Existed
The main sources we used for this one are:
Michael J. Crowe. 1986. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750 to 1900.
Michael J. Crowe. 2008. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate: Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book.
Steven J. Dick. 1982. Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant.
Dildar Ahmed, 2006. The Qur'an and the Aliens. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dildar_Ahmed/publication/283811987_The_Qur'an_and_the_Aliens/links/5647f6ef08ae9f9c13e97444/The-Quran-and-the-Aliens.pdf
If you want to read Lucien's very fun A True Story, then it's here (in parallel with the Greek) https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/true/tru01.htm
Episode 44: Women's Suffrage
NZ Women and the Vote https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/womens-suffrage/brief-history
That Bloody Woman https://open.spotify.com/album/27pikGLOASw0WtUnfxBbCh?si=bgANPckGSSuULrBoJMJpdg
Studer, Brigitte: Universal Suffrage and Direct Democracy : The Swiss Case, 1848-1990, in: Fauré, Christine (Hrsg.): Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women (New York: Routledge, 2003), 687-703. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25595/403
John Bendix (1992) Women's Suffrage and Political Culture:, Women & Politics, 12:3, 27-56,
Elizabeth Crawford (2001) The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928
Francisco O. Ramirez, Yasemin Soysal and Suzanne Shanahan (1997) The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990. American Sociological Review Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 735-745
Haverty, Anne (1993). Constance Markievicz: Irish Revolutionary.
Episode 43: Red Headed History
The main source for this one was Jacky Colliss Harvey, 2015, Red: A Natural History of the Redhead.
The article which claimed that redheads are more resistant to pain meds was Edwin B. Liem et al., 2004, 'Anesthetic Requirement is Increased in Redheads', Anaesthesiology 1010 (2), 279-283. and you can read the abstract here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1362956/
A takedown of that article with links to newer research is
Christopher O'Connor, 2019, Myths in Anaesthesiology: Do Redheads have Special Needs?' At Op-Med. https://opmed.doximity.com/articles/myths-in-anesthesiology-do-redheads-have-special-needs?_csrf_attempted=yes
The art here is Jules Joseph Lefebvre's Maray Magdelene in the Grotto. More info at https://www.wikiart.org/en/jules-joseph-lefebvre/mary-magdalene-in-the-cave-1876
Some of Rosetti's paintings of Alice (aka Alexa) Wilding can be seen at the Rosetti Archive:
Monna Vanna: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s191.rap.html
The Blessed Damozel: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s244.rap.html
Alexa Wilding portraits http://www.rossettiarchive.org/rose/?query=title%3A%22alexa+wilding%22
Episode 42: More Short Questions
Sources (some of them)
English Sweating Sickness:
Bridson, E. The English “sweate” (Sudor Anglicus) and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Br. J. Biomed. Sci. 2001, 58, 1–6.
Pay Heyman, Leopold Simons and Christel Cochez, 2014. 'Were
the English Sweating Sickness and the Picardy Sweat Caused by Hantaviruses?' Viruses 6 (1), 151-171.
CDC, Hantavirus: Signs and Symptoms -https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/hps/symptoms.html
Adam Patrick, 1965, 'A Consideration of the Nature of the English Sweating Disease,', Medical History 9 (3), 272-279.
Languages:
Youtube NativeLang https://www.youtube.com/user/NativLang
What Latin Sounded Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enn7NIo-S0&t=293s
Elagabalus:
Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Margherita Facella (eds.) 2017. TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World
Martijn Icks (2011) The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome’s Decadent Boy Emperor.
Episode 41: Who were the coolest women in Rome after 68CE
Sources
-Annelise Freisenbuch, 2010, The First Ladies of Rome.
- Guy De La Bedoyere, 2019, Domina.
- Barbara Levick, 2007, Julia Domna: Syrian Empress.
-Cassius Dio books 75-80 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html
Episode 40: Were pirates really communists?
Sources!
Edward Fox, 2013. ‘Piratical Schemes and Contracts’: Pirate Articles and their Society, 1660-1730. PhD Thesis. University of Exeter https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/14872/FoxE.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Marcus Rediker, 2004. Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
Captain Charles Johnson, 1724. The General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates 2nd ed.
Vol.1 (inc Blackbeard) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40580/40580-h/40580-h.htm
Vol. 2 (inc Libertalia) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57005/57005-h/57005-h.htm
Chris Land, 2007. Flying the black flag: Revolt, revolution and the social organization of piracy in the ‘golden age’, Management & Organizational History, 2:2, 169-192
Peter T. Leeson, 2007. An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization. The Journal of Political Economy 115 (6), 1049-1094
Benerson Little, 2005. The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730.
Gabriel Kuhn, 2010. Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy.
C.R. Pennell (ed), 2001. Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader.
Marcus Rediker, 2001. The Seaman as Pirate: Plunder and Social Banditry at Sea in Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader.
Marcus Rediker, ‘“Under the Banner of King Death”: The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716-1726’, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third series, 38 (1981), 203-227
Crystal Williams, ‘Nascent Socialists or Resourceful Criminals? A Reconsideration of Transatlantic Piracy’, in Paul A. Gilje and William Pencak (eds). Pirates, Jack Tar, and Memory: New Directions in American Maritime History (Mystic, 2007) 31-50
Episode 39: Queer Royals
Sources!
Sources
Jeffry J. Iovannone. 2018. A Brief History of the LGBTQ Initialism. https://medium.com/queer-history-for-the-people/a-brief-history-of-the-lgbtq-initialism-e89db1cf06e3
Scott Bravmann. 1997. Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture and Difference.
Clare Hayward, 2016. Queer Terminology: LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality. http://notchesblog.com/2016/06/09/queer-terminology-lgbtq-histories-and-the-semantics-of-sexuality/
Rachel Moss 2015. Seeing Sodomy: An Interview with Robert Mills http://notchesblog.com/2015/07/02/seeing-sodomy-an-interview-with-robert-mills/
Umberto Grassi, 2016. Acts or Identities: Rethinking Foucault on Homosexuality. Cultural History 5 (2) 200-221.
John D’Emilio, 1993.Capitalism and Gay Identity in The Gay and Lesbian Studies Reader ed. H. Abelove, M. A. Barele & D.M. Halperin. http://sites.middlebury.edu/sexandsociety/files/2015/01/DEmilio-Capitalism-and-Gay-Identity.pdf
Episode 38: The Weird History of Gynecology
Steinberg, W., & Muntner, S. (1965). Maimonides’ views on gynecology and obstetrics. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 91(3), 443–448.
Soranus, Gynecology
Thierry, M. 1997. Vaginal speculum: the developmental history of a gynecologic instrument. Verh K Acad Geneeskd Belg. 1997;59(1):13-8.
Monica Green. Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe Signs, Vol. 14, No. 2, Working Together in the Middle Ages: Perspectives on Women's Communities (Winter, 1989), pp. 434-473
Sandelowski, M. (2000). ‘This Most Dangerous Instrument Propriety, Power, and the Vaginal Speculum. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 29(1), 73–82.
Jennifer Stroud Rossmann 2008. Built to Spec? The vaginal speculum as a case study of inadequate design. Ambidextrous. https://dspace.lafayette.edu/bitstream/handle/10385/589/Rossmann-Ambidextrous-vol10-2008.pdf?sequence=1
Jeffrey S. Sartin. 2004. J. Marion Sims, the Father of Gynecology: Hero or villain? Southern Medical Journal Vol. 97, Issue 5.
Rose Elveleth. 2014. Why No One Can Design a Better Speculum. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/why-no-one-can-design-a-better-speculum/382534/
Peter M. Dunn. 1999. The Chamberlen family (1560–1728) and obstetric forceps. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 81.
Sukhera Sheikh, Inithan Ganesaratnam, and Haider Jan. 2013. The Birth of Forceps. JRSM Short Rep. Jul; 4(7): 1–4.
Lauren Dundes. 1987. The Evolution of Maternal Birthing Position. Public Health Then and Now. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.77.5.636
J. Patrick O'Leary. 2004. J. Marion Sims: a defense of the Father of Gynecology. Southern Medical Journal. Vol. 97, Issue 5.
Selim Kadioglu, Oya Ogenler and Ilter Uzel, 2017. A Classical Wooden Vaginal Speculum Mentioned in Old Medical Manuscripts. Arch. Iran. Med. 20(3) 193-195.
Episodes 36 & 37: Chinese Dynasties, One by One
"The Dynasties Song"
This "dynasties song," sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques,"
can help students remember the major Chinese dynasties in chronological order.
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Sui, Tang, Song
Sui, Tang, Song
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
— Courtesy of the teachers on the College Board AP-World History Listserv
Asia for Educators http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/timelines/china_timeline.htm#Chinese%20History
Valerie Hansen, 2000. The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600.
Ancient Chinese Mummy: Uncovering The Most Well-Preserved Mummy in China - The Lady of Dai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuJcSkx8Es
Patricia Buckley, 2005. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China.
Haiwang Yuan, 2010. This is China: The First 5,000 YEars.
Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbanks (1978-2002) The Cambridge History of China Vols 1-11.
Episode 35: Did anyone expect the Spanish Inquisition?
Sources
Lu Ann Homza, 2006. The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources.
Helen Rawlings, 2006. The Spanish Inquisition.
John Edwards, 1992. ‘Why The Spanish Inquisition?’ Studies in Church History 29, 221-236.
Henry Kamen, 2014. The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. 4th Edition.
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, 2011. A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition.
The Jewish Virtual Library. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-inquisition
Kimberly Lynne Hossain. 2007. Unravelling the Spanish Inquisition: Inquisitorial Studies in the 21st Century. History COmpass 5(4), 1280-1293.
James Maxwell Anderson. 2002. Daily Life During the Spanish Inquisition.
And of course https://youtu.be/JMMrL0LOon0
Episode 34: Was it better to be a hetaera than a wife in Athens?
Episode here: https://bit.ly/2RFN8zE
Some sources here. A lot of the trials came from Demosthenes. You can read Demosthenes Against Neaera here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Dem.+59+1&redirect=true and Isaeus on Alke here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0142%3aspeech%3d6 should you so wish.
Allison Glazebrook. 2016. ‘Prostitutes, women, and gender in Ancient Greece’ in Women in Antiquity: Real women across the Ancient World, Edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean MacIntosh Turfa.
Jayoung Che. 2017. Citizenship and the Social Position of Athenian Women in the Classical Age. A Prospect for Overcoming the Antithesis of Male and Female. Athens Journal of History 3 (2), 97-118.
Sarah B. Pomeroy. 1975. Goddess, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity.
David M. Schaps. 1998. What Was Free about a Free Athenian Woman? Transactions of the American Philological Association 128, 161-188
Rebecca Futo Kennedy, 2015. Elite Citizen Women and the Origins of Hetarai in Classical Athens, Helios 42 (1), 61-79.
Edward E. Cohen. 2016. ‘The Athenian Businesswoman’, in Women in Antiquity: Real women across the Ancient World, Edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean MacIntosh Turfa.
Edward E. Cohen. 2016. Athenian Prostitution: The Business of Sex.
Episode 33: The Age of Airships
One correction: I said that the waterpark is in a 1920s airship hanger but actually it's from an attempted 1990s revival! Apologies and thank you to Numenius arquata for updating me!
Sources:
J. Duggan, H. Meyer. 2001. Airships in International Affairs 1890 - 1940 - legit the most boring book I’ve ever attempted to read.
Harold Dick, Douglas Robinson. 1985. The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg - written by two people who worked on the Hindenburg
Robert Hedin (ed). 1998. The Zeppelin Reader: Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Age of Airships
Martin Van Creveld. 2011. The Age of Airpower
R.P. Hearne. 1910. Airships in Peace and War, 2nd edn.
Jeanne Marie Laskas. 2016. Helium Dreams: A new generation of airships is born. New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/a-new-generation-of-airships-is-born
Gregory K. H. Bryant 2010. A Very Brief History of Airships. Lightspeed http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a-very-brief-history-of-airships/
Ian Castle. 2008. London 1914-17: The Zeppelin Menace.
Graf Zeppelin’s Round the World Journey 1929 Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0sM5hMeqlo
British Pathe The Hindenburg Disaster explosion footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgWHbpMVQ1U
Herbert Morrison’s Eyewitness Reporting on the Hindenburg Disaster as it happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXO7mdBcA48
Gizmodo. 31 Images from the Golden Age of Airships https://gizmodo.com/31-photos-from-the-golden-age-of-airships-when-zepplin-1376407382
Episode 32: Chinese Tickle Torture?
https://martinifisher.com/2017/04/23/titillatio-a-brief-mythology-ancient-history-and-philosophy-of-tickling/
C.R. Harris 2013 'Tickling', in the Encyclopedia of Human Behaviour 2nd ed. - contains the amazing pretend robot tickling experiment.
Racist tickle porn site: http://www.ticklingforum.com/archive/index.php/t-112908.html
Heinz Heger, 1994 The Men with the Pink Triangle.
Pictures of Death By 1000 Cuts and other info about actual tortures in China: https://www.chinasage.info/torture.htm
Some alleged examples of people being tickled to death/as a torture, most of which are nonense, but does include the Man Tickled Wife Mad text: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.multimedia.tk/viHVc2KzwZk/gOoVL6aEwJYJ
Maxim Korolkov, 2011 ‘Arguing about Law: Interrogation Procedure under the Qin and former Han Dynasties” Etudes Chinoises 30. - Chinese torture documentation
Jonathan Spence, 1998. The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds.
Nancy Park, 2008. Imperial Chinese Justice and the Law of Torture. Late Imperial China, 29 (2) 37-67.Nancy Park, 2008. Imperial Chinese Justice and the Law of Torture. Late Imperial China, 29 (2) 37-67.
D. Jones. The Function of China in Western Social and Political Thought.
James Williams, 1893. The Function of Torture on Roman Law II. Law Review 5th Series 64.
Gavin Yamey. Review of Torture:European Instruments of Torture and Capital Punishment from the Middle Ages to the Present. BMJ 11th August 2001.
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)