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The Refugee Who Ran the English Church: The Life & Career of Theodore of Tarsus (Powell & Warren)
Kristian Powell and Thomas Warren, Fordham masters students, discuss the multicultural life of Theodore of Tarsus, including his legacy and impact on the early church in England.
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Jul 252 min read


Queer Medievalism & the Cult of Gay Relics: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Australia and the United States (Barbezat & Pattenden)
In this episode, Michael D. Barbezat (Australian Catholic University) and Miles Pattenden (Oxford University) explore the "queer medievalism" of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in the early 1980s.
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Jun 252 min read


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.
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May 252 min read


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.
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May 252 min read


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.
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Apr 252 min read


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.
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Mar 252 min read


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


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


A Queer Look at Manuscript Illumination: Metamorphosis, Imagination, and the Ovide Moralisé (Richards, Correa-Reyes, & O'Mara)
JULY 2025 UPDATE: Christopher T. Richards follows up on the conversation from our episode in his new article, “Painting Against Nature: A...
mmapodcast1
Nov 25, 20242 min read


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...
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Oct 25, 20242 min read


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:...
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Sep 25, 20244 min read


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,...
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Sep 25, 20243 min read


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...
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Aug 25, 20243 min read


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...
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Jul 25, 20243 min read


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...
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Jul 25, 20242 min read


"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...
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Jun 25, 20242 min read


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...
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May 25, 20242 min read


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,...
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Apr 25, 20243 min read


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


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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