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Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanorianica and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the

greatest millennium in human history. We uncover the greatest mysteries, the gobsmacking

details, and the latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the Normans, from kings to

popes, to the Crusades. We delve into the rebellions, plots, and murders that tell us who we really were.

And how we got here.

If we were to believe the way that popular culture has depicted life in the Middle Ages,

we might think that there were basically two types of people.

You got filthy villagers in torn, brown sack-like clothes.

They have matted hair, rotten teeth, and sunken eyes, and then there's nobles,

who are only marginally cleaner,

and they're brooding in candelette castles with grim expressions and velvet cloaks.

But either way, everyone is ghostly pale or dirt smeared with blemishes and pox scars or plague bugos,

I mean, weren't they?

Thankfully now, we know that medieval people were not averse to a little bit of a glow-up,

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