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The Cadaver Synod (Papal States)

Sep 25, 202318 min
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Episode description

“Are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?” Herman Melville 

Over a thousand years before Melville wrote his words one Pope actually did this very thing. In this episode Paul and Mikey look at the Cadaver Synod and the perilous political games played out amongst the early medieval papacy.

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