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!

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• 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

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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.