Ep. 161: medieval tomes & digital souls

Dr. Keri Thomas joins us to talk about medieval manuscripts, death, and the possibility of digital resurrection. Are we entering a digital dark age, or are our mortal souls bound for the cloud?

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Keri and Marko about Europe's werewolf trials
[28:53] We dive right in with an introduction to Dr. Keri Thomas that spirals into a discussion of how digitization and resurrection are related
[66:03] We talk about the super metal way medieval manuscripts were made, how people would have read them, and how people lived so closely acquainted with death
[91:42] We talk a bit more about the Voynich Manuscript, which we discussed at length on the Laydown Podcast! Go listen!
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Stuff we referenced:

• Welsh Witches
• The Death Toll of Europe's Witch Trials
• A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials
• What Is Clinical Lycanthropy?
• The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter
• Before America Had Witch Trials, Europe Had Werewolf Trials | HISTORY
• Werewolf Trials: Europe's Gruesome 16th-Century Witch Hunts
• A German werewolf's 'confessions' horrified 1500s Europe | National Geographic