The answer is very.
Show Notes for Episode 2.6
Check out the episode below:
CW: eating disorders, disordered eating, irregular food behaviors
Quick Links from the Episode:
- Are you or someone you know struggling with an eating disorder? NationalEatingDisorder.org is a great resource for learning more about eating disorders and how to get help for yourself or a loved one. Chat, phone, and text services are also available.
- Folio Facts: This week, Paige tackles an enigma wrapped in a mystery: the Voynich Manuscript. It is currently held at the Beinecke at Yale University and is named after Wilfred Voynich who was a bookseller that bought it in 1912 from a monastery. An illuminated manuscript carbon dates to the early 1400s, the Voynich is written in an as-of-yet unbreakable code.
- Learn more about the Voynich Manuscript on the Beinecke’s site!
- Caroline Walker Bynum is basically a badass in the historical field. Her CV will make you cry tears of envy, but you can check our her Wikipedia page, too.
- Jennifer encourages everyone to read about the mission & history of the Institute of Advanced Study. *Note: Jennifer did not make it super clear in the episode, the IAS is not part of Princeton University, but happens to also be located in Princeton, New Jersey.*
- BBE Bookstore: Paige presents the Egyptian-steampunk-fantasy-murder mystery A Dead Djinn in Cairo, by P. Djeli Clark. Lucky for you, the entirety of this novella is available for free on Tor.com.
- Creatives’ Corner: This week, Jennifer is highlighting video essayist, Lindsay Ellis, and her YouTube channel. Jennifer first ran across Ellis on the PBS YT channel, Storied (also amazing, you should check that one out, too), and didn’t even realize Ellis had her own channel. Jennifer happened upon Ellis’s video on the Omegaverse controversy and has been hooked ever since.
If readers leave this book simply condemning the past as peculiar, I shall have failed. But I shall have failed just as profoundly if readers draw direct answers to modern problems from the lives I chronicle…
Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast
