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Medieval Morsels

Medieval Morsels

Von: Lucas Miller
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Medieval Morsels serves up bite-size, story-rich history from the Middle Ages—without the boring textbook vibe. Each episode explores the castles, conflicts, odd customs, everyday life, and “wait…that’s real?!” moments that made the medieval world so fascinating. Expect curious questions, fun facts, and surprising twists—from plague myths to manuscript secrets, knights to kitchen life.

New episodes for history lovers, casual learners, and anyone who wants the Middle Ages explained with personality.

  • Treating the Plague: Medieval Medicine, Bad Air, and Desperate Remedies
    Jan 23 2026

    In this follow-up to our Black Death episode, we step inside the medieval sickroom to answer a haunting question: what did people actually do to treat the plague? Without germ theory or antibiotics, medieval communities relied on the medical framework they had—humor theory, environmental medicine, and the belief that disease traveled through corrupted air (“miasma”).

    We explore the remedies that followed logically from that worldview: herb bundles and fumigation, vinegar cloths, bleeding and purging, and attempts to “draw out” plague swellings with poultices and lancing. We also discuss complex apothecary mixtures like theriac, and why many “treatments” were as much about restoring control and meaning as they were about curing illness.

    Along the way, we include a brief primary-source moment to hear how medieval witnesses described fear, isolation, and the collapse of ordinary care—and we close with what these treatments reveal about medieval knowledge, culture, and survival under pressure.

    In this episode:

    • The medieval medical “operating system”: the four humors
    • Miasma and the war on “bad air”
    • Common responses: herbs, incense, vinegar, and household prevention
    • Physician practices: bleeding, purging, and regimen (diet + behavior)
    • Buboes and “drawing out” remedies: poultices and lancing
    • Theriac and the medieval pharmacy
    • What may have helped accidentally: isolation and supportive care

    Next up (vote for the follow-up):

    1. Why quarantine becomes “40 days”
    2. Plague doctors: myth vs. timeline
    3. Daily life during outbreaks—work, family, fear, and survival

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    18 Min.
  • The Plague in the Middle Ages - The Black Death and the World it Remade
    Jan 21 2026

    The Middle Ages weren’t just castles and knights—sometimes they were silence, fear, and a bell that wouldn’t stop ringing. In this episode of Medieval Morsels, we step into the 14th century to explore the Black Death: how it spread, what medieval people believed was causing it, and the strange (and sometimes surprisingly logical) ways they tried to survive.

    But this isn’t only a story about death—it’s a story about transformation. The plague reshaped work and wages, power and protest, faith and doubt, art and memory, leaving Europe permanently changed. Join us for a curious, story-rich look at the pandemic that didn’t just devastate the medieval world… it remade it.

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    21 Min.
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