Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

You've been immature and you've lied.

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

I was trying to manipulate you.

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

I don't know.

I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,

it's just between us. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. Did medieval people really have sex in churches? What was a boy bishop?

And why did women have to sit on the safe side of a church in the Middle Ages? Well, Professor Nicholas Orme, the author of a new book,

Going to Church in Medieval England,

will be answering all of these questions and more in the latest episode of our Everything You Wanted to Know series.

That's where we put your questions on a particular topic to a leading expert.

As you may have guessed, this week the subject is the medieval English church.

And asking the questions was our content director, David Musgrove. First up, why was the church so important in medieval England?

That's because it's a lot more than just a way of connecting with God,

which I suppose it is nowadays. It's a whole belief system because Christianity

undertakes not merely to explain one's relationship with God, but it also sets out to explain

history. I mean, a lot of the Bible is history. It's also science. It's also

ethics, how you should behave. So whole areas of study that we would now separate off as science or

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