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My name is Jamie and this is Episode 309.

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You would think that someone named Edgar the Peaceable would have enjoyed a good reputation.

But the closer you look, the more things start to look off.

And if you look closer than that, you start to get the sense that maybe things really

were off.

Next episode, we spoke about the different ways historians approach William of Mom's

Bray.

And how one approach is the CM is reflecting oral histories that would have been floating

around during his life.

And quite possibly also reflecting written work that didn't make it to us today.

Essentially, Mom's Bray is giving us a peek into the medieval rumor mill.

While rumors aren't facts, they still do provide us a window into how people might have

been viewed by their peers.

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