Matt Lewis
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3 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 4d ago
Matt Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026
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So we're starting to build
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It's really hard to be certain.
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I feel like we tend to over-egg the amount of violence that's going on.
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The sense that you couldn't walk down the street without getting beaten up.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Undoubtedly, on a large scale, there is this fight to expand kingdoms.
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There are war bands marching around, fighting each other.
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Does that necessarily mean that your normal peasants in the field who are just trying to grow their crops are stabbing each other as well?
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Absolutely, probably not.
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That's not happening.
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So violence is prevalent, but it isn't necessarily endemic.
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It doesn't affect everybody on an everyday level.
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And part of the reason that we can be fairly certain that that's true is because there are very strict rules.
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law codes around at this time that regulate the behaviour of people.
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This isn't some kind of chaotic, lawless, anarchic society.
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There is very clear structures and the Anglo-Saxon legal codes, I find them absolutely fascinating.
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They tend to rely on a sense of collective responsibility, that the community is responsible for the behaviour of its members and the community is responsible for punishing breaches of the rules.
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And if they don't, the community can be punished as a whole for that too.
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into... So in Anglo-Saxon England, your parcel of land is called a hide.
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And that's not a fixed measure of land.
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