Matt Lewis

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1,437 appearances 30 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 3d ago

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

And he's then subjected to ritual blinding. matched

the point of this is Anglo-Saxon and throughout the medieval period, actually, ideals of kingship require you to be physically perfect. matched

You will so often see descriptions of kings and queens describe them as beautiful, handsome, all of this kind of thing. matched

Part of being a king, being appointed by God requires you to be beautiful, a vision of physical perfection. matched

So any way in which you can remove that perfection from someone eliminates them from the line of succession. matched

So blinding is one. matched

If you're blind, you can't possibly be king. matched

We see castration. matched

If you can't reproduce, you're not gonna make a viable king either. matched

They might amputate a hand or a foot or something like that. matched

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can't fight anymore, you can't lead armies, you can't be a king. matched

We even see, I mean, there's facial disfigurement. matched

So even just cutting someone's face so they have scars and they no longer look beautiful is considered enough to potentially remove them from the line of matched

Yeah. matched

Imperfect. matched

And we even have instances of scalping, which... matched

It has also been called kind of forcibly tonsuring someone. matched

So that you're giving them a monk's tonsure so that they're only fit for a life in the church. matched

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