Legends and Lectures
An academic podcast about legends, history, language, archaeology, and other interdisciplinary subjects. Episodes out every other week.
Episodes
Dec 6, 2025
Dec 2, 2025
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 10, 2025
Oct 31, 2025
Oct 30, 2025
Oct 20, 2025
Oct 20, 2025
36 min
This week on Archaeoscoop: Viking carved heads, Roman gravestones, the digital dark age, and bait and switch.
Oct 13, 2025
Oct 13, 2025
57 min
What is a werewolf exactly? When did the first werewolf appear in literature? How did Bisclavret and Guillaume de Palerme shape our idea of werewolves? How did the werewolf trials and the Werewolf of Bedburg change societies ideas of werewolves? Was Dracula a werewolf?
All this and more with the wonderful and lupine Dr Kaja Frank, talking about her new book The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature: Wolves, Woods, and Wilderness.
You can find Dr Frank's book here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/ecogothic-werewolf-in-literature-9781350441125/
Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025
37 min
This week on Archaeoscoop with Marc from Archaeosoup, smoked mummies, museum gala, and a new Pictish face.
Sep 19, 2025