Medieval Murder

Medieval Murder

Medieval Murder is an educational podcast bringing historical murders from the medieval and early modern period to life.

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September 1, 2025 58 mins

Today we have a very special guest on the podcast, M.T. Anderson who is the New York Times best-selling author of Feed, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, winner of the 2006 National Book Award; and Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Prize winner, among...

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Today we are talking about a very popular, if you can call it that, murder from the 1500s that features a love triangle, a failed poisoning and much more - it's the murder of Thomas Arden!

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Today we are talking about the murder of Marguerite Porete, who, while little known to most people, is a fascinating woman whose life ended terribly - featuring the inquisition and the Beguin movement!

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July 21, 2025 58 mins

Today we are discussing the Sack of Rome of 1527, along with all of the political components that came along with it, with a special emphasis on the Swiss Guard!

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July 10, 2025 35 mins

Today we are talking about one of my favorite stories in medieval history, Pope Formosus and what led to what is now known as the Cadaver Synod where they put a deceased pope on trial for his supposed crimes but it backfires.

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June 25, 2025 47 mins

Today we are talking about Kett's Rebellion which took place in Norfolk, England in the 16th century.

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June 11, 2025 34 mins

Today we are talking about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 which has been labeled by historians as the first great popular rebellion in English History.

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May 27, 2025 44 mins

Today we are talking about the Vikings in Ireland all the way from Dublin to Waterford to Kells to Leinster! 

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Today we will be talking about the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII, Katherine Parr.

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May 5, 2025 29 mins

Today we are discussing the life and death of Saint Edmund the Martyr, the first saint to be venerated in England.

 

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Today we will be talking about the fifth wife of King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard. Now when we last left the Tudor world, Henry had annulled his marriage to Anne of Cleves and in a way she got away scott free from a man who had a history of taking out his insecurities and his furies on his wives - thus the rhyme to remember his wives, Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced. And we’ll find the next part of that rhyme by the end of this...

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March 31, 2025 25 mins

Today we will be discussing the fourth wife of King Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves.

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Today we will be discussing some events that were documented in London’s Coroner’s rolls back in the late 13th and early 14th century, as well as the murder of Janus Imperial with the co-founder and owner of Medievalists.net, Peter Konieczny.

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February 10, 2025 37 mins

Today we are continuing our dive into Tudor history and are going to be discussing the wife that came after, or maybe even during, King Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour.

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January 20, 2025 33 mins

Today we are branching a little later on than the medieval period to the Tudor period and we will be discussing one of the most famous women in history, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII.

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December 29, 2024 30 mins

Happy holidays from everyone here at Medieval Murder! To celebrate the holidays we’re doing a second holiday special featuring the murder of Thomas Becket the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Happy holidays from everyone here at Medieval Murder! To celebrate the holidays we’re doing a special episode covering some of our favorite Medieval and Early Modern Holiday Traditions and folktales including the Icelandic Yule Lads, Krampus, the Yule Log, and Hogmanay. 

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Today we are discussing the story of Axlar-Bjorn the only medieval Icelandic serial killer and the bloody Bender serial killers of 19th century Kansas.

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Welcome to one of the craziest stories we’ve had on the Medieval Murder Podcast! Today we are talking about Saint Olga of Kyiv. 

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October 29, 2024 34 mins

Welcome to our Halloween Special ooooo! Today we have found some of the scariest ghost stories from Ireland and Scotland to share with you! Just a little house keeping before we begin. To celebrate Halloween and reaching 8,000 listens on the Medieval Murder Podcast we are offering a discount on our entire Medieval Murder Merchandise store! Just enter the code “Murder” for 10% off! Also, please leave us a review anywhere podcasts ca...

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