▌/The Vault
Free
The Silence of Marguerite – The Renaissance #242
The Beguines were a movement of independent women who lived like nuns, owned property, preached in the vernacular, and answered to no man or church…. which, predictably, the…
Rats, Jews, and the Man with the Flute – The Renaissance #241
The Jews have been expelled, the lepers have been burned, and somebody clearly had a plan…. we just don't know who. We dig into the mechanics of medieval…
A Goodly Sum – The Renaissance #240
The King of France issues a royal edict blaming the lepers for poisoning the wells…. conveniently leaving out the Jews, who had just paid him 150,000 livres -…
The Tall Dark Man with a Scimitar – The Renaissance #239
We're still talking about the Great Leper Scare of 1321 and now we're deep into the trials. We've got lepers across France being rounded up, tortured into confessions,…