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EPISODE NOTES
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
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
The Filmmaker, the Anchorite, and Their Collaboration Across Time (Golum & Quigley)
(!) This post was originally published June 2023. It has been updated with still images from the upcoming film Revelations of Divine...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Þe Rade Longe 1990s: Nostalgia and Pop Medievalisms of the 90s and Y2K (Bievenue, Fulmer, & Sulla)
Underexplored media in the discourse of pop medievalisms are those which emerged in the era of Kurt Cobain and Furbies, of Pokémon and...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20232 min read
New Materialism and the Multicultural Middle Ages (Nuñez & Waters)
In this episode, Liam Waters (UC Berkeley) and Ana Núñez (Stanford) discuss New Materialism as a disciplinary approach to the Middle...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20232 min read
The Use of Medievalism in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (White & Iacocca)
Within a cultural climate where representations of the medieval are often employed to serve racist and white supremacist ends, the topic...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Women, Books, & Pregnancy in Medieval France (Rivard Hill)
Although much scholarship on the Middle Ages uses the model of “great men” to describe this time period, “Women, Books, and Pregnancy in...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20231 min read
Medieval Jewish Women & Intersectionality (Ifft Decker)
Why does studying medieval Jewish women matter? The framework of intersectionality, a term coined by the scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw,...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20231 min read
Reading Chaucer in Mandarin: How Do We Teach the Global Middle Ages Outside the West? (Liendo)
As medieval scholarship attempts to decenter the West and move towards a global and multicultural approach, we frequently ask: how do we...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Teaching the ‘Global Middle Ages (O'Mara, Gertsman, & Rhie Mace)
How do we introduce students to these topics and open up wider discussions about our definitions of the period? Why is it critical that...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Mysteries & Miracles (Azzarello)
In this podcast, medieval art historian, Dr Stephanie Azzarello will explore several images that once belonged to a lavish series of...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Ethnicity & Diversity in 6th-Century Gaul (Rowe)
In a 1998 roundtable discussion, historian Ian Wood pithily said that there were more than two ethnic groups in Early Medieval Gaul,...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20231 min read
Medieval Trans Studies (Klosowska, Bychowski, Goodrich, Gutt, & Maillet)
Trans people and non-cis cultures and artifacts are not only a part of, they shape and define the Middle Ages. Legendary saints and...
mmapodcast1
Mar 23, 20238 min read
Curating Global Medievalisms (Grollemond & Keene)
This episode introduces approaches that museum curators take to bring a global Middle Ages to life for a range of audiences. We focus on...
mmapodcast1
Mar 23, 20233 min read
Welcome to The Multicultural Middle Ages!
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Multicultural Middle Ages! This podcast is brought to you by the Graduate Student Committee of...
mmapodcast1
Mar 23, 20232 min read
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