{"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. 103: \"The Demon Pope\" by Richard Garnett","slug":"mdt-ep-103-the-demon-pope-by-richard-garnett","published_at":"2023-10-31T22:09:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766/mdt-ep-103-the-demon-pope-by-richard-garnett","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766","url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/mdt-ep-103-the-demon-pope-by-richard-garnett/","audio_url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/podlove/file/218/s/feed/c/podcast/mdt-episode-103.mp3","summary":"We interrupt our regularly scheduled Gerbert d'Aurillac series with a special Halloween anniversary detour into a Victorian version of his Dark Legend: the 1888 short story, \"The Demon Pope,\" by Richard Garnett. Today's Text Garnett, Richard. \"The Demon Pope.\" The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales. John Lane, 1903, pp. 86-98. Google Books. Music Credit: \"Mephisto Polka,\" by Franz Liszt (1882-3), performed by Sofja Gülbadamova used under a CC-BY 3.0 license (MusOpen).","meta_description":"We interrupt our regularly scheduled Gerbert d'Aurillac series with a special Halloween anniversary detour into a Victorian version of his Dark Legend: th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2093,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/medieval-death-trip-994766/episodes/mdt-ep-103-the-demon-pope-by-richard-garnett/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-103-the-demon-pope-by-richard-garnett.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}