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The Pirate’s Daughter: A Story of Compassion from a Medieval Bestseller
A tale from the medieval Gesta Romanorum tells of a pirate’s daughter who frees a prisoner and faces a moral trial. Her bold defense reveals a deeper lesson about compassion, loyalty, and justice.
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Looking to craft your next dungeon delve for your campaign? Want a few puzzles your player have never seen before? We've found a few medieva
Looking to craft your next dungeon delve for your campaign? Want a few puzzles your player have never seen before? We've found a few medieval tales with tantalizing puzzles and twisting dungeons, ready to be used in your next TTRPG. Sit back as we do the work to show you how to adapt these dungeons into your game.
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Citations & References
Read the Gesta Romanorum here
Francis Carmody. Physiologus, The Very Ancient Book of Beasts, Plants and Stones. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1953. Read an online version here.
Neri, Elisabetta, et al. “Unveiling the Paint Stratigraphy and Technique of Roman African Polychrome Statues.” Archaeological & Anthropological Sciences, vol. 14, no. 6, 2022, pp. 1–11.
Dull, Robert A., et al. “The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 100, no. 4, 2010, pp. 755-71.
Faust, Franz X., et al. “Evidence for the Postconquest Demographic Collapse of the Americas in Historical CO2 Levels.” Earth Interactions, vol. 10, 2006.
Kopczynski, Noémie, et al. “Polychromy in Africa Proconsularis: Investigating Roman Statues using X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy." Antiquity, vol. 91, no. 355, 2017, pp. 139-54.
Notes
Additional music for this episode from freesound.org; created by, in order of appearance: liezen3, Merrick079, holizna.
Maps referenced re: Roman elephants are the ones on Wikipedia.
two maidens killing a unicorn and collecting its blood
in a copy of the "gesta romanorum", swabia, c. 1452
source: Karlsruhe, Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen 145, fol. 67v
A cheating wife plots with a her lover, a necromancer, to kill her husband, a knight on pilgrimage... what could possibly happen when anothe
A cheating wife plots with a her lover, a necromancer, to kill her husband, a knight on pilgrimage... what could possibly happen when another necromancer decides to protect the knight? We're breaking down tales in the Gesta Romanorum to learn more about medieval law and necromancy!
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plucking out eyes
illustration for the tale of the two physicians from the "gesta romanorum", swabia, c. 1452
source: Karlsruhe, Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen 145, fol. 86v
I just found your podcast and saw that you covered the Gesta Romanorum in a lot of episodes. Since they are pretty long, can you please tell me if the Episode about the man in the snake cave (Charles Swan translated the title as "Of Deliverance from Hell") is in one of them?
It isn't yet. I just checked, and it's one of the ones I have tagged to include in a future episode. If you like, I can make a note to do it the next time we revisit the Gesta Romanorum -- though that won't be for a while, as we have the next few months already planned out and Gesta Romanorum isn't on the schedule.
WHO or WHAT is the Abominable Whistler? What uncanny powers do they possess? These and other questions will be thoroughly elided in this wee
WHO or WHAT is the Abominable Whistler? What uncanny powers do they possess? These and other questions will be thoroughly elided in this week’s episode as we return to the Gesta Romanorum for more so-called "deeds of the Romans". Tune in to learn the best way to catch fish and how to lie to God. Don't miss it!
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Hypnogoria - on Toads: Link
Our return to the Gesta Romanorum in this episode provides a wide variety of tools for your TTRPGs. Need an unsolvable riddle for your playe
Our return to the Gesta Romanorum in this episode provides a wide variety of tools for your TTRPGs. Need an unsolvable riddle for your players? What about a grave insult paired with the gift of a golden apple? Or perhaps you're looking for a more Lovecraftian plot element? Whatever you're looking for, this episode has it all. Plus, hear YOUR results from our first Tournament!
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Citations & References:
Afanasyev, Alexander. "The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Bird of Light, and the Grey Wolf." Russian Folk-Tales, translated by Leonard Magnus, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1916, pp. 78-90. Link.
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