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every episode. Hello and welcome to the Queens of England podcast. Episode 24, Joanna of Navarre,

The Witch Queen. I would like to preface this episode by saying that I am not an expert on medieval magic and witchcraft.

I mean, I'm not an expert on anything, really, but I at least have an academic background in the

study of queenship. I don't on medieval magic. Everything that I'm

going to be talking about with you today is from things that I have learned over the last month or so

while researching the story of Joanna Rufnevar. I was initially going to be dealing with her story in one go,

one episode that would have been pretty long, but self-contained. But while I was writing the last show,

though, two things became clear. First, this episode writing sure is getting super long,

and second, I really need to study more about witchcraft. Joanna is the first of our queen to be

explicitly accused of being a witch. She would not be the last, and so it's worth studying

this in a little more depth.

Therefore, this episode will serve as a necessarily concise introduction into medieval sorcery

and how it relates to the final years of Joanna of Devar. If you're an expert on this sort of thing,

then I apologize for the lack of depth, but I'm learning about it at the same pace as the rest of you.

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