It’s on like Donkey Kong. We’ve got a new pope and Christory is on the ground in Rome watching it go down. The dream is that the first pope from the US of A is walking through the Vatican apartments winking at the nuns like Jude Law in The Young Pope because nothing is more historically fun than a spicy pope.
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Christory S2 E4: Spicy Popes
From parading around Rome with an elephant to putting a corpse on trial, there is more delightfully devious behavior amongst the 266 popes than in all the seasons of Cops. Hold onto your sock, papal or not and see the Holy See’s dirty laundry in high definition.
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Christory S2 E3: Ridin' The Typhoid Train
What do Abigail Adams, Prince Albert, Louisa May Alcott, Wilbur Wright, quite possibly Sacagawea and Alexander the Great, and maybe Saladin have in common? They met the grim reaper by hitchin’ a ride on the Typhoid train. Christory's back in the history of disease with a Papal Jubilee twist ( of lime).
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Christory S2 E2: The Bubonic Plague and One Very Angry Medieval God
Papal Jubilees have been super spreaders. This year it is the Jubilee Flu, in 1350 it was The Plague. Learn more about the disease that killed at least half of Europe. In the Middle Ages God was angry. Today, you’ve got bacteria and hopefully antibiotics.
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Christory S2 E1: Who Can Pull The Plug on a Papal Jubilee?
The Papal Giubileo has taken Rome by storm. Even the New York Times is afraid the city is going to lose its soul, but this isn’t Rome’s first trip to the invasion rodeo. Napoleon took great pleasure in busting papal cajones, so hold onto your bicorne hats!
Acerca de Christory: History Where You Least Expect It
Dr. Christine Contrada is a native New Yorker whose true passion is history. Having taught countless historical topics over the years at elite liberal arts colleges, public research universities, inner-city and rural community colleges, in continuing education, for study abroad programs, she now teaches teachers from across Europe. No matter where she is, nothing brings her as much joy as getting an adamant naysayer excited about history - and that's the focus of the Christory podcast.Her podcasts weave history and popular culture so she is always searching, wherever she is, for a hidden corner that has some spicy bit of historical significance to share. Making any historical topic interesting is her favorite challenge.
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