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The Boy King: Saint, Butcher, or Both?
A twelve-year-old king in chains on the Nile becomes a lawmaker who orders twelve thousand Talmud volumes burned - what did it cost him?
The Boy King: Saint, Butcher, or Both?
In this episode, we follow the life of a medieval monarch from his birth in Poissy to the crises that defined his reign, tracing the choices, beliefs, and forces that shaped him and asking what price those choices demanded. What did his drive for piety and order require of others?
Person: Louis IX
Date: April 25, 1214 (birth)
Event: Burning of twelve thousand volumes of the Talmud
Location: Poissy; Paris; Nile (capture)…
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