Meeting the Ministeriales (Pattee & Quigley)

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In this episode, scholar Aaron C. Pattee chats with Logan Quigley about the roles and realities of the ministeriales—non-nobles who served in a variety of administrative capacities within the royal palaces, the imperial estates, and the entourages of emperors, kings, and bishops in the Holy Roman Empire during the High Middle Ages.

Aaron C. Pattee is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in applying methods from computer science to art historical, archaeological, and historical questions. Aaron's PhD, in Art History, Criticism, and Conservation (Heidelberg University), combined 3D models, GIS analyses, and historical network analyses into a graph database to further scholarly understanding of castle architectural designs. Aaron's Substack, Maintaining the Realm, dismantles tropes and dispels misconceptions about the medieval Holy Roman Empire.

Logan Quigley is a series producer and host for The Multicultural Middle Ages. His PhD, in medieval English literature (University of Notre Dame), explored late medieval pilgrimage literature's representations of human spatiotemporal experience.

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