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.

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.

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.