What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Update)

Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner. We heard from a lot of listeners who really liked our most recent episode, which was called What It's Like to Be Middle-aged in the Middle Ages. So I figured you might want a little bit more medieval programming. Here is a bonus episode. It's an updated version of an episode we first published in 2013.

It's called What Do Medieval Nuns? and Bo Jackson have in common? The answer is probably not what you think. As always, thanks for listening. It probably was pretty darn painful because you're not living in a world with good razors.

The chances are what they're using is kitchen cutlery, I would imagine, and that is not necessarily all that sharp. I can't imagine how painful it was. That's Lisi Oliver. When we spoke with her for this episode around 12 years ago, she was studying medieval law at Louisiana State University. And what do you think she's talking about that was so darn painful?

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