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Oct 31, 2016

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We celebrate two years of Medieval Death Trip on our Halloween anniversary with an extra spooky episode looking at the walking dead who haunt William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum.

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Oct 31, 2016

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MDT Ep. 31: Concerning the Revenants of William of Newburgh

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