True Crime Medieval
1000 years of people behaving badly.
True Crime Medieval
101. Defenestrations of Prague, Prague, Bohemia 1419, 1483, 1618
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Anne Brannen and Michelle Butler
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Season 5
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Episode 101
Humans have been throwing each other out of windows pretty much as long as humans have had windows more than one story or so off the ground, but only Prague is famous for them. Two of them actually led to wars, even. We are very happy to tell you about the famous defenestrations, wherin all sorts of officials got thrown out of windows, and Michelle is happy to tell you about the tourist trade. Oh, and also Susan Howe's poem "Defenestration of Prague," which is, of course, about Ireland. Because metaphors.