Season 10, Episode 45: Two Wings & a Prayer

This week: Victory Gundam episode 45. It's another(!) recap episode... kind of? We test out some new podcasting technology, the Angel Halo gets its first field test, Queen Maria tells all the kids to pick up their rooms, and Nina researches the healing powers of royal touch. Plus, Voltaire says a very funny thing. That's right, we got Voltaire to come guest on the podcast.

P.S. - as a little treat, this version contains a brief post-research discussion that won't be included in the public version.

Please listen to it!

Show Notes

• Articles, papers, and books:

  • Barlow, Frank. “The King’s Evil.” The English Historical Review, vol. 95, no. 374, 1980, pp. 3–27. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/569080. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

  • Gallagher ND. 'A sad inheritance of misery': the cultural life of hereditary scrofula in eighteenth-century England. Med Hist. 2024 Jan;68(1):1-21. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.37. Epub 2024 Mar 15. PMID: 38486500; PMCID: PMC11046006. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11046006/

  • Horgan, John. "King's Evil." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 20 Apr 2021. https://www.worldhistory.org/King's_Evil/ Accessed 18 Mar 2025.

  • Soth, Amelia. “The Divine Power of Kings to Heal by Touch.” JSTOR Daily, JSTOR, 10 May 2018, daily.jstor.org/the-divine-power-of-kings-to-heal-by-touch/. Accessed 18 Mar 2025.

  • Turrell, James F. “The Ritual of Royal Healing in Early Modern England: Scrofula, Liturgy, and Politics.” Anglican and Episcopal History, vol. 68, no. 1, 1999, pp. 3–36. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42611999. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

• Wikipedia pages for the Royal touch and for Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis (aka scrofula).

• Encyclopedia Britannica page for scrofula.

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