Protestant Reformation
16th-century movement in Western Christianity
Episodes
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#5663: Did the Puritans Really Hate Fun?The Puritans banned alcohol? Invented happy hour rules? A look at what they actually did — and the 1781 hoax we still quote. -
#5636: Before the 9-to-5: Working Hours in 1700s EnglandSaint Monday, seasonal building sites, and a scholarly brawl over whether anyone worked 270 days a year before factories existed. -
#5588: Anchorites: Dead to the World, at the Center of ItSealed into a church wall, declared dead to the world — and then consulted by kings. The strange, true story of the anchorite. -
#5144: What Medieval Peasants Actually Ate From the PotA cauldron on a chain, a fire that never quite goes out, and the real Tuesday of perpetual pottage — minus the four-hundred-year broth myth.