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A Saint Between Worlds: A Global History of the Relics of Saint Louis of Toulouse (Minieri & Cantrell)
Listen here or on any podcasting platform. In the early hours of 23 November 1423, a Catalan fleet entered the port of Marseille under the cover of darkness. Over the next two days, soldiers led by King Alfonso V of Aragon plundered and burned the city as its residents fled into the countryside. Before the ships left, Alfonso’s men entered a safehouse and stole the relics of Saint Louis of Toulouse (d. 1297). They carried off Louis’s relics to Valencia Cathedral, where Alfons
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2 hours ago34 min read
Charlemagne and the Jewish Communities of the Latin West (Enlow & Rivett)
In this episode of The Multicultural Middle Ages, Loraine Enlow chats with Pilar Rivett about Rivett’s research into ninth-century baptismal and exorcistic rites and Jewish–Christian relations under Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. Their conversation challenges scholarly assumptions about a decline in the culture of diasporic Judaism in the Latin West in pre-Rabbinic times (4th–9th centuries). Instead, they argue in favor of a Latin Jewish textual tradition.
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Jul 2511 min read
Books Without Borders: Arabic Manuscripts and the Making of the Global Middle Ages (Tadghout)
In this episode of The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast, Mourad Tadghout examines the central role of Arabic manuscript culture in shaping the intellectual history of the medieval world. It follows the production, circulation, and transformation of manuscripts from major centers such as Baghdad, Cairo, Córdoba, Fes, and beyond, tracing how texts moved across linguistic, religious, and geographic boundaries.
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Jul 159 min read
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