{"podcast":{"title":"Medieval Death Trip","slug":"medieval-death-trip-994766","podcast_index_feed_id":994766,"rss_url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/?feed=podcast","website_url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com","image_url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/MDTCoverArt2026-1024x1024.jpg","author":"Patrick Lane","episode_count":128,"summary":"On Medieval Death Trip, we feature a selected medieval text (often historical, occasionally literary) that touches on the odd, the gruesome, the unexpected, and similarly curious incidents, images, or ideas. In addition to presenting the text itself, each episode features commentary and musings upon that text.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T18:19:24.007351+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766"},"episode":{"title":"MDT Ep. 100: Concerning the Litigious Origins of Printing","slug":"mdt-ep-100-concerning-the-litigious-origins-of-printing","published_at":"2023-05-12T04:18:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766/mdt-ep-100-concerning-the-litigious-origins-of-printing","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766","url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/mdt-ep-100-concerning-the-litigious-origins-of-printing/","audio_url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/podlove/file/215/s/feed/c/podcast/mdt-episode-100.mp3","summary":"For our 100th episode, we look at one of the technologies that marks an endpoint for the middle ages, the printing press, and consider how Johann Gutenberg may be a prototype for today's paranoid tech tycoons and the lawsuits that so often dog them. Today's Texts: Van der Linde's, A. The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing. Translated by J.H. Hessels, Blades, East, & Blades, 1871. Google Books. Schröder, Edward. Das Mainzer Fragment vom Weltgericht. Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1908. Archive.org. Trithemius, Johannes. \"From In Praise of Scribes.\" In Writing Material: Readings from Plato to the Digital Age. Edited by Evelyn B. Tribble and Anne Trubek, Longman, 2003, pp. 469-475. Music Credit: Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, II. Adagio, performed by Skidmore College Orchestra and made available under the CC-PD license on MusOpen.org.","meta_description":"For our 100th episode, we look at one of the technologies that marks an endpoint for the middle ages, the printing press, and consider how Johann Gutenber…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4773,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/medieval-death-trip-994766/episodes/mdt-ep-100-concerning-the-litigious-origins-of-printing/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766/mdt-ep-100-concerning-the-litigious-origins-of-printing.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}