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So What?: Arthuriana and the Public Humanities (Claytor, McKee, & Sheble)
In this episode, Margaret Sheble (webmaster/contributing editor for Arthuriana), Arielle McKee (Outreach Coordinator for The So What), and Brittany Claytor (Assistant Outreach Coordinator) discuss the origins and importance of the new public humanities journal The So What.
mmapodcast1
May 252 min read
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Modern Uses of the 'Medieval': A Conversation with The Medievalist Toolkit (Bertrand, Grissom, Reich, & Correa Reyes)
This episode discusses the work of The Medievalist Toolkit, medievalisms, some of the many ways in which the "medieval" seeps into contemporary political and public discourse, and the importance of outreach.
mmapodcast1
May 252 min read
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French Fantasies in the Medieval North: Translating Old French romances at the court of King Hákon Hákonarson of Norway (O’Connor)
Mary Catherine O’Connor explores the role of translated literature in introducing ideas of courtliness and chivalry but also in fostering a shared European literary culture at the multi-cultural and cosmopolitan court of King Hákon Hákonarson in Bergen in the thirteenth century.
mmapodcast1
Apr 252 min read
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Making the Marvels: Bringing The Book of the Marvels of the World to the Masses (Grollemond & Michael)
Larisa Grollemond and Kelin Michael discuss the process of bringing the Book of Marvels to a general audience.
mmapodcast1
Mar 252 min read
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We're Back! Season 4 Producer Introduction (Beattie, Correa-Reyes, Lee, O'Mara, & Quigley)
The MMA podcast producers chat about the origin of the podcast, some upcoming episodes, and their own medieval inclinations.
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Mar 212 min read
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Medievalists Go Online (Konieczny, Lee, & O’Mara)
Listen now! In this episode, Reed and Loren chat with co-founder of popular site Medievalists.net Peter Konieczny about the history of...
mmapodcast1
Dec 25, 20241 min read
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A Queer Look at Manuscript Illumination: Metamorphosis, Imagination, and the Ovide Moralisé (Richards, Correa-Reyes, & O'Mara)
Listen now! In this episode, art historian Christopher T. Richards chats with Jon and Reed about what we can learn from medieval theories...
mmapodcast1
Nov 25, 20241 min read
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The Medieval Peasantry: A Homogeneous Whole or a Space of Social Diversity? (Carballido González)
Listen now! The peasantry constituted an impressive percentage of the medieval population. Historiography has not ignored the existence...
mmapodcast1
Oct 25, 20242 min read
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Cosmic Ecologies and Animalities in the Jewish Middle Ages (O'Mara, Gertsman, Harris, Shyovitz, Offenberg, & Berkowitz)
Listen now! In this episode, MMA series producer and host Reed O'Mara chats with organizers of and participants in Cosmic Ecologies:...
mmapodcast1
Sep 25, 20244 min read
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The Paintings of the Hall of Kings at Alhambra, Spain (Amer)
This podcast episode presents a scholarly examination of a significant mural painting located within the Alhambra Palace in Granada,...
mmapodcast1
Sep 25, 20243 min read
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Making Afghanistan Medieval (Ahmed & Nasseri)
Afghanistan today is—in the eyes of politicians, pundits, soldiers, scholars, and many others—a medieval space. It is all too often...
mmapodcast1
Aug 25, 20243 min read
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Prince Vladimir as a Recruit in the War Between Russia and Ukraine (Ropa & Rops)
Listen now! Medievalism has been a common, and hardly innocent practice, in eastern European political discourses ever since the...
mmapodcast1
Jul 25, 20243 min read
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Emergency Art History: Protecting At-Risk Cultural Heritage Sites in Nagorno-Karabakh (Correa Reyes & Maranci)
Listen now! Recent years have seen the re-ignition of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The...
mmapodcast1
Jul 25, 20242 min read
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"Disneylanding" Conques and Modern Medievalisms (Racaniello, Marquardt, Palladino, & Lesák
In this episode, four scholars from the “Conques in the Global World” project sit down for a round-table style discussion about how the...
mmapodcast1
Jun 25, 20242 min read
24 views
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The Persuasive Power of Maryam: Proselytism, Religious Conversion, and the Politics of Marian Devotion in Early and Early Modern Castile (Valdés Sánchez)
In this episode, Amanda Váldes Sánchez addresses the crucial role of Marian devotion in the Castilian domination of the former territory...
mmapodcast1
May 25, 20242 min read
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Multilingualism in Post-Conquest Britain (Benson, Pons-Sanz, Boyarin, & Henley)
In the centuries after the Norman Conquest, as many as eight languages were spoken in the British Isles: English, Anglo-Norman, Latin,...
mmapodcast1
Apr 25, 20243 min read
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Built and Natural Environments in Medieval Contexts (Juarez, Keane, & Davis)
What is the relationship between so-called “built” and “natural” environments as they are represented in medieval literature, and what is...
mmapodcast1
Mar 25, 20243 min read
64 views
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Medieval Japanese Buddhisms (Correa Reyes, Eubanks, & O'Mara)
What does it mean to experience a sacred text? How did Buddhism make its way from south Asia to the Japanese archipelago? How did the...
Logan Quigley
Oct 11, 20232 min read
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Racialized Medievalisms & Rings of Power: the ‘Diverse’ Fantasy Prequel (Francis, Ishikawa, & Chism)
Join your episode co-hosts Kersti Francis (BU) and Misho Ishikawa (NYU) for a lively conversation with Chris Chism (UCLA) about prequels...
Logan Quigley
Oct 11, 20233 min read
45 views
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Experiencing Medieval Music: What did medieval music sound like? (O'Mara, Monroe, & Mullins Bailey)
What did medieval music sound like? How can we read and perform the musical notation from medieval manuscripts? What does singing and...
Logan Quigley
Oct 11, 20232 min read
20 views
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