# Concerning Conjoined Twins, Some Incorruptibles, and Royal Murders

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Podcast: [Medieval Death Trip](https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766)
Published: 2024-12-15T00:42:24+00:00
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We continue on from last episode's look at the Green Children of Woolpit with a further consideration of what it meant to wonder at a marvel in the middle ages, with additional illustration of some wondrous things from William of Malmesbury. Today's Texts - Gervase of Tilbury. Otia Imperialia. Edited and translated by S.E. Banks and J.W. Binns, Clarendon Press, 2002. - Isidore of Seville. The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Translated by Stephen A. Barney, W.J. Lewis, J.A. Beach, and Oliver Berghof with Muriel Hall, Cambridge UP, 2006. - William of Malmesbury. Chronicle of the Kings of England. Edited by J.A. Giles, translated by John Sharpe and J.A. Giles, George Bell & Sons, 1895. Google Books. Chapters 00:00:00: Introduction 00:09:48: Text: from Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia 00:13:29: Commentary 00:16:23: Text: from Isidore of Seville's Etymologies 00:21:02: Commentary 00:23:05: Text: from William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum 00:39:32: Commentary 00:43:23: Text: from Caroline Walker Bynum's "Wonder" 00:48:08: Commentary 00:48:26: Mystery Word: glop 00:54:15: Outro

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