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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

by Anthony Bale

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · December 4, 2023

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A historian examines game-playing and travel in the medieval world, finding travellers passing the time with dice and tric trac, as well as collecting pilgrim badges along the way.

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