MAP91: Codex Gigas: The Devil's Bible

About this episode

This episode explores the mysterious Codex Gigas, also known as The Devil's Bible, and its intriguing legends.

It's time for our 🎃Halloween🎃 episode! This year we are looking at... The Devil's Bible Codex Gigas "Giant book" lives up to it’s name measuring over 3 feet long, 2 feet wide, 9 inches thick, over 300 fully illuminated pages and weighing in at 170 pounds! Legend has it the book was written in one night, by a single monk condemned to death, who sold his soul to the Devil to complete the work. As a gift to the devil the monk put a two foot illustration of the devil in the book. The unknown origins and the picture of the devil give the book its more common name, The Devil’s Bible . Did the devil have a hand in it? Did the monk really sell his soul? And why was the monk condemned to death? Learn about Jan Hus and the Hussite Wars on episode 56 See the Devil's Bible at the National Library of Sweden 🇸🇪 website: https://www.kb.se/in-english/the-codex-gigas.html Get all the links and see all the pictures in the show notes on Medieval Archives! (00:00) - Welcome to the Medieval Archives Podcast (00:16) - Codex Gigas (01:20) - Send me your questions or comments (01:39) - Executive Producers (01:56) - Let's look at the Devil's Bible (02:12) - Codex Gigas introduction (02:45) - Vellum…

People in this episode

Host: Tim Rayburn

Topics covered

• Codex Gigas
• The Devil's Bible
• medieval history
• monasticism

Keywords

• Halloween
• Jan Hus
• Hussite Wars
• National Library of Sweden

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Venmo, Castamatic, iCatcher, Sphinx, Codex Gigas

Books & works: The Devil's Bible Codex Gigas, The Devil’s Bible, the Devil's Bible, the Medieval Archives Podcast, Josephus Flavius: History of the Jews

Places: Sedlec

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