Have you ever wondered what Randy monks really got up to in the Middle Ages?

And it's one of the features of medieval Europe that official brothels were set up in cities.

Sometimes it has to be said by clergy. What's the perfect

souvenir you could bring your boo' boo home from holiday? He arrives at the

gates of his house in Peterborough with an enormous baggage train that includes not only an ostrich that he's picked up in Prague,

but also what I'm convinced is a hunting cheater.

Or who was the biggest teenage rebel from history?

But she, like, would just turn up to all these really smart society events and just go completely off the wall and disgrace herself, disgrace her family,, dressed up as a bishop.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be putting the Plantagenets on pause

to bring you conversations with some of the best historians out there.

Together, we'll be diving in at the deep end to paint a more complete picture of the world

our Plantagenets lived in and beyond.

Plus each guest will be sticking around after the main show for a special subscriber episode on This is History Plus,

where I'll be diving even deeper into their specialist topics and getting to know them,

medieval style.

I hope to learn a few things myself with these amazing guests.

It is quite clear that what we might call a missionary position was the preferred way in which Western society saw proper sex.

Not just Western society, actually Eastern society,

where the missionary position was called on a horse.

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Otherwise I'll see you back here next week on the main feed.

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