What are the scandals that made headlines in the Middle Ages? Kings and Popes would be involved in some of the craziest stories of sex and corruption that would make today’s news seem quite tame. From a cross-dressing prostitute to the trial of a dead Pope, here are ten almost-unbelievable medieval scandals.
Learn more about these scandals:
The Poisoned Image of the Borgias: A Look at the Public Image of Pope Alexander VI and His Children
The Original Medieval Lovers: Books on Abelard and Heloise
The Medici Bank and the World of Florentine Capitalism
The Interrogation of of a Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth Century London
The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History
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