A Guide to Living in Dark Times with Weird Medieval Guys

Gone Medieval

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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Olivia Swarthout prowls the web for little-seen snippets of medieval art and life, sharing it via the Weird Medieval Guys Twitter and instagram accounts, and podcast.

Her new book, Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times is a handy guide offering time-tested solutions for all of life's biggest problems, from becoming an irresistible suitor even though you can't joust to surviving encounters with rabbits and dragons

In this episode of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis meets Olivia on how she brings people today closer to the distant past.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:37.0	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval. I'm Matt Lewis.
0:38.0	There's some weird medieval guys out there.
0:41.0	No, I'm not being rude.
0:42.0	There really are weird medieval guys. And I'm delighted to be joined today by one of them
0:46.0	Olivia Swarthak is the person behind the weird medieval guys that you can find on
0:51.0	social media with a huge following. You'll find
0:53.8	naked snail fighting, rabbits riding dogs with a hunting snail on their glove,
0:58.6	and hedgehogs collecting apples amongst thousands of brilliant and frankly
1:02.2	weird images from medieval art.
1:04.0	Olivia has a brand new book out entitled Weird Medieval Guys How to Live, Laugh, Love and Die in the Dark Times.
1:11.6	Welcome to G on Medieval Olivia. Thank you so much Matt.
1:14.4	It's great to have you here. I'm really looking forward to working my way through this book. I really, really enjoyed it.
1:18.7	I guess my first question would be what inspired you to write this book? It's all about what life would throw at you in the middle ages.
1:24.9	Why was that something you wanted to focus on?
1:27.4	I started writing the book during quite a transient time in my life
1:31.2	when I was finishing my degree, and I think the topic of what life
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