A Goodly Sum – The Renaissance #240

About this episode

The episode discusses a royal edict from the King of France blaming lepers for poisoning wells while conveniently ignoring the Jews who had recently paid him a large sum of money.

The King of France issues a royal edict blaming the lepers for poisoning the wells…. conveniently leaving out the Jews, who had just paid him 150,000 livres – roughly a third of the entire royal annual revenue. Pure coincidence. We also get a forged letter from the future, a secret room full of incriminating ram-skin, and a dragon that God apparently sent to signal it was time to murder somebody. The post A Goodly Sum – The Renaissance #240 appeared first on The Renaissance Times .

People in this episode

Hosts: Cameron Reilly, Ray Harris

Topics covered

• royal edict
• lepers
• Jews
• historical events
• forged letters
• murder
• dragons

Keywords

• royal edict
• lepers
• Jews
• forged letter
• murder
• dragon
• historical revenue

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The King of France

Books & works: A Goodly Sum

Places: France

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