Not to Worry; I Have a Permit: Medieval Fables

What can animals teach us about TTRPGs? Join us in this episode as we explore the world of Medieval Fables and just what they can teach us about life, death, and min-maxing with fables & medieval animal specialist Linnet Heald! Check out our Kickstarter! Check out Sam's DEATH OF THE AUTHOR on Backerkit here! Check out Linnet's Blog posts & her new work! (Website coming soon!) The Raven’s False Greeting: Animal Language and Medieval Fable - link Learning to Fear in Two Medieval Fables - link The Stag and the Dogs: A Medieval Fable - link Imagining the Medieval Bestiary - link Linnet Heald, "Wicked Wolves, Culpable Sheep: Animal Lessons in Medieval British Fables," New Medieval Literatures 25 (2025) . (Forthcoming) Medieval Panther Woodcut: link Join our discord community! Check out our Tumblr for even more! Support us on patreon! Check out our merch! The Beastiary Challenge! (<-- Don't miss it!) Socials: Tumblr Website Twitter Instagram Facebook Citations & References: Caxton’s Aesop ed. by Joseph Jacobs, 1889 - link TEAMS Middle English Robert Henryson, The Complete Works: Fables - link & the Modern English Translation Loeb Library's BABRIUS, PHAEDRUS, Fables - link Davide Ermacora, “The Comparative Milk-Suckling Reptile,” Anthropozoologica 52, no. 1 (2017): 59–81. Lion Symbolism: Nigel Harris, "The Lion in Medieval Western Europe: Toward an Interpretive History," Traditio 76 (2021), 185–213.