Why Medieval Nuns Were Banned from Keeping Pet Squirrels (1300s France) | History for Sleep
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Somewhere in a French convent, sometime in the 1300s, a tiny squirrel is racing across a stone floor while a horrified abbess realizes that this has become a spiritual problem.
This is a story about discipline, distraction, affection, and the strange little battles medieval religious life was built on. Behind the silence of convent walls was a world of rules so detailed that even a pet squirrel could become controversial.
In this episode, we go into the daily life of medieval nuns in France — what they were allowed to own, what they were forbidden to love too much, and why something as innocent as a small animal could be seen as vanity, disorder, or even a threat to devotion. Because in the Middle Ages, holiness was not just about prayer. It was also about control: of the body, of the routine, of attachment, and sometimes of absurdly specific behavior.
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