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John Eldevik, "Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and Its Manuscript Contexts" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
Jun 13 • 36m
Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
May 24 • 1h 1m
Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
May 13 • 55m
Judith Vitale, "The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Apr 30 • 1h 3m
Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Apr 24 • 1h 6m
Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
Apr 18 • 41m
Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Apr 10 • 41m
Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
Mar 29 • 51m
Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Mar 28 • 50m
Bruce L. Vernarde, "The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Mar 27 • 1h 9m
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, "A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years" (NYU Press, 2022)
Mar 25 • 49m
Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 14 • 1h 7m
Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Mar 12 • 52m
Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 11 • 37m
Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 8 • 51m
Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 8 • 43m
Exploring Muslim Sicily with Nuha Alshaar and Shainool Jiwa
Mar 7 • 55m
Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Mar 3 • 36m
Isabel Moreira, "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 3 • 1h 5m
Caroline Dunn, "Ladies-in-waiting in Medieval England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 2 • 42m
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 1 • 53m
Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Feb 28 • 1h 11m
Gemma Hollman, "Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens" (Abbeville Press, 2024)
Feb 26 • 1h 10m
Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023)
Feb 22 • 57m
Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Feb 22 • 1h 3m
Andrew Jotischky, "The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Feb 21 • 29m
Shane Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 17 • 1h 13m
Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)
Feb 16 • 54m
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 16 • 26m
Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)
Feb 15 • 48m
Erika Graham-Goering et al., "Lordship and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Feb 14 • 48m
Josef Stern, "Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Feb 9 • 40m
Adam Franklin-Lyons, "Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon" (Penn State Press, 2022)
Jan 30 • 1h 1m
Bianca M. Lopez, "Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Jan 21 • 53m
Alec Goldstein, "Maimonides on the Book of Exodus" (Kodesh Press, 2019)
Jan 16 • 37m
Yehudah Cohn, trans., "Mine Is The Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets Of Immanuel Of Rome" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
Jan 14 • 1h 12m
Anthony Bale, "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes" (Norton, 2024)
Jan 11 • 38m
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
Jan 6 • 56m
Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024 • 49m
Hartley Lachter, "Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024 • 45m
Herald van der Linde, "Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire" (Monsoon Books, 2024)
Dec 12, 2024 • 47m
David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 7m
Shannon Gayk, "Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 6, 2024 • 54m
James Mallinson, "The Dattatreyayogasastra" (Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024 • 1h 11m
Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 27, 2024 • 1h 23m
Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 23, 2024 • 1h 28m
Leila K. Norako, "Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024 • 1h 27m
Lisa Nielson, "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Nov 12, 2024 • 1h 54m
Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 6, 2024 • 51m
Hannah Weaver, "Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Nov 4, 2024 • 53m
Georgia Henley, "Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 • 45m
Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 • 55m
Subhashini Kaligotla, "Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 31, 2024 • 31m
Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 24m
Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 37m
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 6m
Sharon Kinoshita, "Marco Polo and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Oct 26, 2024 • 48m
Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
Oct 9, 2024 • 34m
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Oct 7, 2024 • 1h 11m
Christopher Paul Clohessy, "Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
Oct 6, 2024 • 40m
James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Sep 30, 2024 • 31m
Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Sep 29, 2024 • 54m
Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 24, 2024 • 56m
Michael Livingston, "Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 20, 2024 • 1h 7m
Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 10m
Caroline Burt and Richard Partington, "Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State" (Faber & Faber, 2024)
Sep 17, 2024 • 1h 11m
Edel Bhreathnach, "Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
Sep 11, 2024 • 32m
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)
Sep 5, 2024 • 47m
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024 • 56m
Cyrus Ali Zargar, "Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Aug 21, 2024 • 57m
Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Aug 16, 2024 • 57m
Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Aug 16, 2024 • 41m
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Aug 12, 2024 • 50m
Cordelia Heß, "The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Aug 10, 2024 • 1h 24m
Katharine Sykes, "Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 8, 2024 • 42m
Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021)
Aug 4, 2024 • 1h 10m
Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 4m
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024 • 1h 2m
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Jul 17, 2024 • 1h 0m
Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024)
Jul 7, 2024 • 33m
Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Jun 30, 2024 • 53m
Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Jun 29, 2024 • 52m
Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
Jun 28, 2024 • 59m
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, "The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century" (NYU Press, 2019/22)
Jun 26, 2024 • 1h 28m
Suganya Anandakichenin, "For My Blemishless Lord: Commentaries on Tiruppāṇāḻvār's Amalaṉ Āti Pirāṉ" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Jun 20, 2024 • 35m
Tahera Qutbuddin, trans., "Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī" (Brill, 2024)
Jun 17, 2024 • 1h 43m
Thea Gomelauri, "The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry" (Taylor Institution Library, 2023)
Jun 1, 2024 • 1h 8m
Sohini Pillai, "Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 30, 2024 • 43m
Daniel Matt et al., "The Zohar: Pritzker Edition" (Stanford UP, 2004-2017)
May 29, 2024 • 1h 4m
Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 25, 2024 • 35m
Sari Nusseibeh, "Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy" (Routledge, 2018)
May 16, 2024 • 1h 3m
Karen Sullivan, "Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
May 14, 2024 • 42m
Siân E. Grønlie, "The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
May 13, 2024 • 46m
Y. Tzvi Langermann, "Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew" (Brill, 2023)
May 11, 2024 • 31m
Joanne Edge, "Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death" (York Medieval Press, 2024)
May 11, 2024 • 1h 7m
Lucy Barnhouse, "Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
May 7, 2024 • 1h 9m
Sean Griffin, "The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 7, 2024 • 55m
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
May 4, 2024 • 1h 7m
Sheilagh Ogilvie, "The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Apr 29, 2024 • 1h 0m
Jason Birch, "The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Goraksanatha" (Institut Francais de Pondichery, 2024)
Apr 29, 2024 • 55m
John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Apr 22, 2024 • 58m
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
Apr 20, 2024 • 1h 7m
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
Apr 17, 2024 • 24m
Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Apr 8, 2024 • 1h 0m
Elizabeth Coggeshall, "On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Apr 8, 2024 • 54m
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 7, 2024 • 35m
Translating a Śrī Vidyā Text: The Cidvilāsastava of Amṛtānanda
Apr 5, 2024 • 48m
Paola Tartakoff, "Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
Apr 2, 2024 • 53m
William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 26, 2024 • 1h 39m
Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
Mar 21, 2024 • 32m
Ada Maria Kuskowski, "Vernacular Law; Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 16, 2024 • 1h 5m
Eva De Clercq, ed. and trans., "The Life of Padma" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 1m
Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024 • 43m
Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, "Tudor Networks of Power" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 21, 2024 • 41m
Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Feb 17, 2024 • 56m
Laura Flannigan, "Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 13, 2024 • 50m
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 13, 2024 • 49m
Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 3, 2024 • 1h 4m
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024 • 51m
Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 22, 2024 • 1h 0m
Brian Gastle et al., "The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis" (Medieval Institute Press, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024 • 49m
Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 16, 2024 • 53m
Elizabeth Eva Leach, "Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 6, 2024 • 38m
Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Jan 5, 2024 • 31m
Virginia Chieffo Raguin, "The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Jan 5, 2024 • 52m
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 29, 2023 • 44m
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023 • 58m
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023 • 1h 4m
Jonathan Sumption, "Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War, Vol. 5" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023 • 42m
Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski, "The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023 • 1h 3m
Robert Houghton, "Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 7, 2023 • 25m
Abigail Agresta, "The Keys to Bread and Wine: Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Dec 6, 2023 • 47m
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 3, 2023 • 55m
D. L. d'Avray, "The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400-c.1600" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 21m
Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)
Nov 27, 2023 • 1h 11m
E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 26, 2023 • 1h 6m
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023 • 42m
Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Nov 24, 2023 • 1h 13m
Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 24, 2023 • 53m
Joeri Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)
Nov 18, 2023 • 37m
Steven B. Bowman, "Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 32m
Rebecca Hardie, "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Nov 14, 2023 • 51m
Don Hollway, "Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066" (Osprey, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023 • 55m
David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 0m
Toby Matthiesen, "The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 2, 2023 • 43m
Jennifer Saltzstein, "Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 3m
Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023 • 49m
Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
Oct 29, 2023 • 53m
Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023 • 1h 14m
Philip Jenkins, "A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World" (Baylor UP, 2023)
Oct 22, 2023 • 31m
Christopher P. Atwood, "The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources" (Hackett, 2021)
Oct 8, 2023 • 1h 42m
Benjamin Savill, "England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 6, 2023 • 1h 2m
Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda Ijpelaar, "The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Oct 2, 2023 • 35m
Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 30, 2023 • 31m
Series Spotlight: Central European Medieval Texts (CEMT)
Sep 29, 2023 • 38m
Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 23m
The Secret History of the Mongols
Sep 24, 2023 • 1h 2m
Martyn C. Rady, "The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe" (Basic Books, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023 • 1h 29m
Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
Sep 18, 2023 • 56m
Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 17, 2023 • 51m
Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 9m
Jacob Abell, "Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 1m
Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings
Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 2m
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023 • 34m
Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Sep 11, 2023 • 46m
Alistair Moffat, "War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans" (Birlinn, 2023)
Sep 10, 2023 • 56m
Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 22m
Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 44m
H. Norman Strickman, "The Secret of the Torah: A Translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer Yesod Mora" (Kodesh Press, 2021)
Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 1m
Joshua Daniel Schachterle, "John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 36m
Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 17, 2023 • 44m
Yehuda Halper, "Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato: Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa" (Brill, 2021)
Aug 15, 2023 • 1h 0m
Toward a More Expansive View of Medieval Europe: Kyivan Rus and Norman Salerno in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Aug 14, 2023 • 1h 8m
Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023 • 55m
Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Aug 11, 2023 • 46m
Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 7, 2023 • 59m
Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Aug 4, 2023 • 52m
Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Aug 2, 2023 • 55m
Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Aug 1, 2023 • 36m
Joel D. Anderson, "Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Jul 25, 2023 • 51m
Kyle A. Thomas and Carol Symes, "The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A New Verse Translation, Edition, and Commentary" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Jul 24, 2023 • 33m
Brigitte Buettner, "The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2022)
Jul 23, 2023 • 1h 0m
Yamin Levy, "The Mysticism of Andalusia: Exploring HaRambam's Mystical Tradition" (MHC Press, 2023)
Jul 23, 2023 • 53m
Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 8m
Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)
Jul 20, 2023 • 39m
The Future of the Sacred Nation: A Discussion with Anna M. Grzymała-Busse
Jul 10, 2023 • 40m
Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)
Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 1m
Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Jul 9, 2023 • 53m
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jul 8, 2023 • 42m
Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 3, 2023 • 49m
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 29, 2023 • 1h 14m
Queer Mysticism
Jun 29, 2023 • 22m
Miri Rubin, "The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jun 27, 2023 • 50m
Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire
Jun 25, 2023 • 53m
Lisabeth During, "The Chastity Plot" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jun 21, 2023 • 38m
Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)
Jun 10, 2023 • 56m
Loriliai Biernacki, "The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and the New Materialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 8, 2023 • 30m
Reyhan Durmaz, "Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond" (U California Press, 2022)
May 27, 2023 • 1h 5m
Rosamond McKitterick, "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 23, 2023 • 49m
Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)
May 22, 2023 • 50m
Michelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
May 16, 2023 • 46m
Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
May 11, 2023 • 54m
Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
May 10, 2023 • 46m
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
May 5, 2023 • 46m
Tim Clarkson, "A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 To 1265" (John Donald, 2023)
May 2, 2023 • 50m
Timothy R. Pauketat, "Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America" (Oxford UP,
Apr 27, 2023 • 46m
Ninon Dubourg, "Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/Suitable for Divine Service?" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Apr 22, 2023 • 48m
Jacques Dalarun et al., "A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023 • 52m
Hope Williard, "Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries" (ARC Humanities Press, 2022)
Apr 6, 2023 • 59m
Greta LaFleur et al., "Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Apr 5, 2023 • 53m
Elizabeth Marshall, "Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
Apr 2, 2023 • 35m
Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, "Dindshenchas Érenn" (U College Cork, 2022)
Mar 29, 2023 • 52m
Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 2m
Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 25, 2023 • 1h 2m
John Soderberg, "Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Mar 24, 2023 • 50m
Peter Heather, "Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300" (Knopf, 2023)
Mar 21, 2023 • 1h 0m
John P. Bequette, "Bede the Theologian: History, Rhetoric, and Spirituality" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023 • 25m
Jessica Brantley, "Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Mar 19, 2023 • 50m
Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Mar 18, 2023 • 56m
Emily Steiner, "John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 11, 2023 • 53m
Audrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 4m
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 10, 2023 • 45m
Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 9, 2023 • 47m
Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein, "The Middle Ages in 50 Objects" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 8, 2023 • 1h 10m
Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction" (Liveright, 2023)
Mar 8, 2023 • 45m
Ben Dodds, "Myths and Memories of the Black Death" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Mar 6, 2023 • 39m
Shivan Mahendrarajah, "A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Mar 5, 2023 • 1h 11m
Charlie Samuelson, "Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 1m
Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Feb 25, 2023 • 1h 21m
Azzan Yadin-Israel, "Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 20, 2023 • 52m
David Arnovitz, "The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Exodus" (Koren, 2020)
Feb 19, 2023 • 42m
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 19, 2023 • 44m
Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Feb 15, 2023 • 43m
Daniel Lasker, "Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism" (Littman Library, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023 • 58m
Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Feb 12, 2023 • 51m
Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023 • 46m
Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)
Feb 11, 2023 • 1h 30m
Mary E. Sommar, "The Slaves of the Churches: A History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 9, 2023 • 49m
Rowan Dorin, "No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 5, 2023 • 50m
Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Feb 3, 2023 • 59m
Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Feb 1, 2023 • 1h 10m
War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
Jan 31, 2023 • 1h 6m
Igor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)
Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 29m
Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 26, 2023 • 42m
James Morton, "Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jan 22, 2023 • 1h 19m
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 21, 2023 • 53m
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2023 • 46m
Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 14, 2023 • 51m
Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 19m
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Jan 8, 2023 • 46m
Melila Hellner-Eshed, "Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (the Great Assembly) of the Zohar" (Stanford UP. 2021)
Jan 4, 2023 • 1h 9m
Hélène Jawhara Piñer, "Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Dec 27, 2022 • 58m
Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Dec 24, 2022 • 57m
Wendi L. Adamek, "Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan" (Hamburg Buddhist Studies, 2021)
Dec 23, 2022 • 1h 31m
Fintan Walsh, "The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3, Navan to Kells and N52, Kells Bypass Road Project" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
Dec 13, 2022 • 36m
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Dec 12, 2022 • 57m
Yannis Stouraitis, "Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022 • 54m
Mary Channen Caldwell, "Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 7, 2022 • 31m
On "1001 Nights"
Dec 6, 2022 • 31m
Nicholas Morton, "The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East" (Basic Books, 2022)
Dec 5, 2022 • 41m
Robert Houghton, "Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games: Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Dec 4, 2022 • 47m
Edmund Hayes, "Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 3, 2022 • 55m
On Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy"
Nov 30, 2022 • 42m
Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, "The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
Nov 30, 2022 • 1h 0m
Darra Goldstein, "The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food" (U California Press, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 1h 17m
Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Nov 24, 2022 • 54m
Carolyne Larrington, "All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 18m
Frans Camphuijsen, "Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe: Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Utrecht, York and Paris" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022 • 51m
Beatrice Forbes Manz, "Nomads in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 21, 2022 • 47m
Charles Goodman, "The Tattvasaṃgraha Of Śāntarakṣita: Selected Metaphysical Chapters" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 1m
Ahmad Al-Jallad, "The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions" (Brill, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022 • 1h 1m
Guido Ruggiero, "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 16, 2022 • 54m
Morgan Pitelka, "Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 8, 2022 • 57m
Sarah Ifft Decker, "The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Pennsylvania State, 2022)
Nov 7, 2022 • 46m
Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 2m
Yuhua Wang, "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 1, 2022 • 55m
Yohanan Friedmann, "Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
Oct 22, 2022 • 59m
Thomas E. Burman et al., "The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650" (U California Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 0m
E. Amanda McVitty, "Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture" (Boydell Press, 2020)
Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 15m
On Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji"
Oct 6, 2022 • 26m
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 5, 2022 • 54m
Emily Jane O'Dell, "The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2022)
Oct 5, 2022 • 38m
Timothy McCall, "Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Oct 5, 2022 • 56m
Natalie J. Goodison, "Introducing the Medieval Swan" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Oct 4, 2022 • 52m
On Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's "Indications of Inimitability"
Oct 4, 2022 • 25m
Emily Joan Ward, "Royal Childhood and Child Kingship: Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 30, 2022 • 1h 7m
Anthony Sattin, "Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022 • 54m
James Belich, "The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 10m
On Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"
Sep 16, 2022 • 28m
Levi Roach, "Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022 • 56m
Caleb Swift Carter, "A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022 • 57m
Silvia Schwarz Linder, "Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurarahasya" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 8, 2022 • 45m
Charo B. D'Etcheverry, "Celebrating Sorrow: Medieval Tributes to the Tale of Sagoromo" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Sep 6, 2022 • 54m
Thomas Donald Conlan, "Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook" (Hackett, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022 • 43m
Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Aug 23, 2022 • 1h 18m
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022 • 59m
Paolo Squatriti, "Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022 • 52m
Stephen Hewer. "Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland" (Brepols, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022 • 50m
Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Aug 13, 2022 • 1h 5m
Alexander Green, "Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Aug 11, 2022 • 1h 8m
On Thomas of Monmouth's "The Life and Passion of William of Norwich"
Aug 3, 2022 • 30m
Stuart Ellis-Gorman, "The Medieval Crossbow: A Weapon Fit to Kill a King" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022 • 55m
On the Wanderer's Havamal and the Poetic Edda
Jul 28, 2022 • 54m
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou, "Orthodox Cyprus Under the Latins, 1191-1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities" (Lexington Books, 2018)
Jul 22, 2022 • 1h 3m
The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked
Jul 21, 2022 • 39m
Christopher S. Celenza, "Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer" (Reaktion Books, 2017)
Jul 8, 2022 • 41m
Peter Hughes, "A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues" (Aurum Press, 2021)
Jul 4, 2022 • 45m
Mary Wellesley, "Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers" (Riverrun, 2021)
Jul 4, 2022 • 1h 9m
John Gillis, "The Fadden More Psalter: The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
Jun 28, 2022 • 49m
Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 26m
Matt King, "Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 6m
Jason Sion Mokhtarian, "Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 2, 2022 • 53m
Richard G. Marks, "Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th-19th Centuries)" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 2, 2022 • 51m
Shelley Puhak, "The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
May 31, 2022 • 46m
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
May 30, 2022 • 1h 6m
Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng, "China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter" (World Scientific, 2022)
May 26, 2022 • 30m
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
May 20, 2022 • 53m
Emma Natalya Stein, "Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
May 19, 2022 • 55m
Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
May 16, 2022 • 1h 21m
Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 12, 2022 • 1h 18m
William Wayne Farris, "A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
May 4, 2022 • 50m
Hana Videen, "The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 2, 2022 • 52m
Lisa Reilly, "The Invention of Norman Visual Culture: Art, Politics, and Dynastic Ambition" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 20, 2022 • 53m
George Warner, "The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Apr 18, 2022 • 1h 1m
Greater Angkor and Global Urbanism
Apr 14, 2022 • 24m
Michael Carasik, "The Commentators' Bible: The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot" (Jewish Publication Society, 2018)
Apr 13, 2022 • 41m
On St. Francis of Assisi, Sultan Malik al-Kamil, and the Crusades
Apr 12, 2022 • 37m
James C. Ungureanu, "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 13m
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, "Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland" (Reaktion, 2010)
Apr 12, 2022 • 52m
Jason M. Baxter, "The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind" (InterVarsity, 2022)
Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 10m
Adrian J. Pearce et al., "Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide. A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration" (UCL Press, 2020)
Apr 11, 2022 • 2h 4m
Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Apr 1, 2022 • 1h 10m
Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec, "Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900: A Sourcebook" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
Mar 29, 2022 • 1h 0m
Ayşe Zarakol, "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 29, 2022 • 45m
Eiren L. Shea, "Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange" (Routledge, 2020)
Mar 25, 2022 • 55m
On Medieval Christianity and Monastic Worlds
Mar 23, 2022 • 56m
Christopher Clohessy, "Angels Hastening: The Karbalāʾ Dreams" (Gorgias Press, 2021)
Mar 9, 2022 • 53m
Racheli Haliva, "Isaac Polqar: A Jewish Philosopher or a Philosopher and a Jew? (Walter de Gruyter, 2020)
Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 0m
Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 3, 2022 • 1h 15m
Dennis Duncan, "Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" (W.W. Norton, 2022)
Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 3m
Nebil Husayn, "Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 28, 2022 • 48m
Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
Feb 23, 2022 • 20m
Tracy Collins, "Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology" (Cork UP, 2021)
Feb 4, 2022 • 48m
Katherine Harvey, "The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022 • 38m
Nicholas Jubber, "The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales" (John Murray, 2022)
Jan 26, 2022 • 54m
Eleanor Janega and Neil Max Emmanuel, "The Middle Ages: A Graphic History" (Icon Books, 2020)
Jan 25, 2022 • 1h 6m
Megan Moore, "The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jan 24, 2022 • 42m
Judith Herrin, "Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jan 14, 2022 • 56m
Dyan Elliott, "The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Jan 11, 2022 • 47m
Jonathan B. Edelmann, "Hindu Theology and Biology: The Bhagavata Purana and Contemporary Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 11, 2022 • 52m
D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 5, 2022 • 57m
Anna McSweeney, "From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola" (Kettler Verlag, 2020)
Dec 21, 2021 • 52m
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2021 • 1h 7m
Hassan Abbas, "The Prophet's Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib" (Yale UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021 • 59m
Janna Coomans, "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021 • 50m
A Conversation with Anne F. Harris, Medieval Art Historian and President of Grinnell College
Dec 1, 2021 • 42m
A Conversation with Anne F. Harris, Medieval Art Historian and President of Grinnell College
Dec 1, 2021 • 42m
Shao-yun Yang, "The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Nov 30, 2021 • 1h 42m
Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
Nov 26, 2021 • 57m
Crawford Gribben, "The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 23, 2021 • 42m
Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Nov 22, 2021 • 1h 30m
Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021 • 59m
Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)
Nov 18, 2021 • 1h 1m
Daniel C. Matt, "The Zohar" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Nov 17, 2021 • 1h 2m
Quentin Skinner, “Quest for Freedom” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 5, 2021 • 1h 41m
Teofilo Ruiz, “The Consolations of History” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 26, 2021 • 2h 26m
Miri Rubin, “Religion and Culture: A Historian’s Tale” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021 • 2h 26m
Jay Rubenstein, “Apocalypse Then: The First Crusade” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021 • 1h 53m
Sam Wineburg, "Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Oct 21, 2021 • 1h 3m
David J. Mozina, "Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021 • 1h 10m
Elizabeth Boyle, "History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
Oct 13, 2021 • 48m
Richard J. A. McGregor, "Islam and the Devotional Object" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Oct 8, 2021 • 1h 9m
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 7m
Joshua S. Mostow and Tokurō Yamamoto, "An Ise monogatari Reader: Contexts and Receptions" (Brill, 2021)
Oct 4, 2021 • 48m
Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Oct 1, 2021 • 1h 27m
John Nemec, "The Ubiquitous Siva: Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Philosophical Interlocutors" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 1, 2021 • 41m
Angeliki Lymberopoulou, "Cross-cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 20, 2021 • 55m
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
Sep 15, 2021 • 55m
Charles Tieszen, "The Christian Encounter with Muhammad: How Theologians Have Interpreted the Prophet" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 10, 2021 • 1h 11m
James D. Reich, "To Savor the Meaning: The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 9, 2021 • 39m
Jagjeet Lally, "India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 26, 2021 • 41m
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 16, 2021 • 1h 1m
David Potter, "Disruption: Why Things Change" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 12, 2021 • 59m
Jill P. Ingram, "Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
Aug 6, 2021 • 1h 4m
Heather N. Keaney, "'Uthman ibn 'Affan" (Oneworld Academic, 2020)
Aug 6, 2021 • 1h 8m
Kathryn Smithies, "Introducing the Medieval Ass" (U of Wales Press, 2020)
Aug 4, 2021 • 41m
James E. Lindsay and Suleiman Mourad, "Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology" (Hackett, 2021)
Aug 4, 2021 • 1h 2m
Ryan J. Lynch, "Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh Al-Buldan of Al-Baladhuri" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Jul 28, 2021 • 1h 13m
Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jul 26, 2021 • 1h 7m
Amy Kaufman and Paul Sturtevant, "Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Jul 23, 2021 • 1h 6m
Young Richard Kim, "The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jul 8, 2021 • 58m
Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Jul 2, 2021 • 1h 0m
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Hachette, 2021)
Jul 1, 2021 • 55m
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jun 29, 2021 • 1h 6m
April D. Hughes, "Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Jun 25, 2021 • 47m
Jamie Kreiner, "Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2021 • 56m
Jonathon D. Beeke, "Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology" (Brill, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021 • 37m
Stephen Murray, "Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021 • 32m
Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jun 18, 2021 • 1h 5m
Hannah Barker, "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
May 12, 2021 • 55m
Brenda Beck, "Land of the Golden River: The Medieval Tamil Folk Epic of Poṉṉivaḷa Nāḍu" (Friesen Press, 2021)
Apr 30, 2021 • 48m
Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
Mar 31, 2021 • 1h 7m
Sara Ritchey, "Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Mar 29, 2021 • 1h 0m
Lokesh Ohri, "Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Mar 23, 2021 • 38m
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 22, 2021 • 1h 4m
Erin L. Brightwell, "Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Mar 16, 2021 • 53m
Roy Flechner, "Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Mar 15, 2021 • 49m
Brian Cummings et al., "Memory and the English Reformation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 10, 2021 • 51m
Richard Kalmin, "Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context" (U California Press, 2014)
Mar 5, 2021 • 49m
Ethan Pollock, "Without the Banya We Would Perish" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 4, 2021 • 1h 8m
Charles Hirschkind, "The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Feb 12, 2021 • 1h 30m
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, "A Fourth-Century Daoist Family: The Zhen’gao, or Declarations of the Perfected, Volume 1" (U California Press, 2020)
Feb 1, 2021 • 51m
Michael D. Bailey, "Origins of the Witches' Sabbath" (Penn State UP, 2021)
Jan 27, 2021 • 49m
Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jan 5, 2021 • 1h 17m
Miri Rubin, "Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 23, 2020 • 46m
Priya Satia, "Time's Monster: How History Makes History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020 • 1h 11m
Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600" (Springer, 2019)
Dec 15, 2020 • 48m
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages: A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
Dec 15, 2020 • 1h 8m
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Dec 15, 2020 • 31m
Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" (Hurst, 2020)
Dec 3, 2020 • 37m
Dale Kedwards, "The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland" (D. S. Brewer, 2020)
Nov 23, 2020 • 1h 6m
John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Nov 6, 2020 • 56m
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian 'Mediterranean'" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Nov 3, 2020 • 1h 24m
Alexander Lee, "Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Nov 2, 2020 • 1h 43m
Martyn Rady, "The Habsburgs: To Rule the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 0m
M. R. Jackson Bonner, "The Last Empire of Iran" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
Aug 26, 2020 • 1h 10m
Jared Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 19, 2020 • 1h 16m
Alyssa Gabbay, "Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam" (I.B. Tauris, 2020)
Aug 7, 2020 • 1h 7m
Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
Jul 10, 2020 • 53m
Jeremy Black, "Mapping Shakespeare: An Exploration of Shakespeare’s World through Maps" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Jul 3, 2020 • 36m
Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Classics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 3, 2020 • 1h 19m
Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 12, 2020 • 1h 5m
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, "Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jun 11, 2020 • 59m
Richard McBride II, "Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism: The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn" (U Hawaii Press, 2016)
May 12, 2020 • 1h 12m
Magda Teter, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 23, 2020 • 1h 6m
Elizabeth A. Cecil, "Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape" (Brill, 2020)
Apr 22, 2020 • 47m
Kevin O'Connor, "The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga" (NIUP, 2019)
Apr 1, 2020 • 1h 2m
Adrian J. Boas, "The Crusader World" (Routledge, 2015)
Mar 25, 2020 • 50m
Jane D. Hatter, "Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Dec 23, 2019 • 56m
K. B. Berzock, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Dec 23, 2019 • 1h 12m
Fran Altvater, "Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts" (Cambridge Scholars, 2017)
Dec 13, 2019 • 33m
Winston Black, "The Middle Ages: Facts and Fictions" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
Dec 10, 2019 • 1h 9m
Eleanor Parker, "Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Dec 5, 2019 • 22m
Christine D. Baker, "Medieval Islamic Sectarianism" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
Nov 29, 2019 • 54m
Sebastian Prange, "Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Nov 27, 2019 • 56m
Donald Ostrowski, "Europe, Byzantium, and the 'Intellectual Silence' of Rus’ Culture" (Arc Humanities Press, 2018)
Nov 6, 2019 • 1h 19m
Joseph F. O'Callaghan, "Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Nov 1, 2019 • 58m
Dan Jones, "Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands" (Viking, 2019)
Oct 29, 2019 • 40m
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Sep 20, 2019 • 1h 8m
Shayne Legassie, "The Medieval Invention of Travel" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Sep 6, 2019 • 40m
Michael Lower, "The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Mediterranean History" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 12, 2019 • 1h 5m
Robert Haug, "The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia" (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
Aug 8, 2019 • 1h 3m
Peter Jan Margry, "The Miracle of Amsterdam: Biography of a Contested Devotion" (U Notre Dame, 2019)
Jul 31, 2019 • 1h 6m
Marko Geslani, "Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jul 16, 2019 • 59m
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jul 10, 2019 • 1h 2m
Caroline Boggis-Rolfe, "The Baltic Story: A Thousand Year History of Its Lands, Sea, and Peoples" (Amberley, 2019)
Jul 8, 2019 • 54m
Ashley Thompson, "Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor" (Routledge, 2016)
Jul 4, 2019 • 42m
Patton E. Burchett, "A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jun 14, 2019 • 1h 1m
Mimi Hanaoka, "Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography: Persian Histories from the Periphery" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
May 31, 2019 • 53m
Gregory Smits, "Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
May 20, 2019 • 1h 8m
Sheilagh Ogilvie, "The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Mar 20, 2019 • 59m
Margaret Arnold, "The Magdalene in the Reformation" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Mar 20, 2019 • 42m
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Feb 26, 2019 • 1h 1m
Benoît Majerus, "From the Middle Ages to Today: Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris" (Parigramme, 2018)
Jan 16, 2019 • 35m
Matthew Gabriele, "Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages" (Routledge, 2018)
Dec 21, 2018 • 41m
Philip Lutgendorf, “The Epic of Ram” (Harvard University Press, 2016-)
Nov 2, 2018 • 1h 4m
Anand Taneja, “Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi”
Oct 31, 2018 • 55m
Luis Cortest, “Philo’s Heirs: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas” (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
Sep 18, 2018 • 55m
Lev Weitz, “Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Sep 4, 2018 • 1h 5m
Eve Krakowski, “Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Women’s Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Aug 9, 2018 • 56m
Irina Dumitrescu, “The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Aug 3, 2018 • 52m
Sucharita Adluri, “Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana” (Routledge, 2014)
Aug 2, 2018 • 37m
Ata Anzali, “‘Mysticism’ in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept” (U South Carolina Press, 2017)
Jul 20, 2018 • 51m
Samuel England, “Medieval Empires and the Cultures of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
Jun 13, 2018 • 37m
Frances Kneupper, “The Empire at the End of Time: Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jun 11, 2018 • 58m
Joshua Parens, “Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy” (U Rochester Press, 2016)
Apr 13, 2018 • 42m
Alexander Orwin, “Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi” (U Penn Press, 2017)
Mar 19, 2018 • 44m
Anna Andreeva, “Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2017)
Feb 7, 2018 • 41m
Bryan D. Lowe, “Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan” (U of Hawaii Press, 2017)
Dec 4, 2017 • 1h 9m
Hussein Fancy, “The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
Aug 12, 2017 • 47m
Matthew Gillis, “Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire: The Case of Gottschalk of Orbais” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 26, 2017 • 49m
David Matthews, “Medievalism: A Critical History” (Boydell and Brewer, 2017)
Jul 6, 2017 • 59m
David I. Shyovitz, “A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural” (U. Penn Press, 2017)
Jun 26, 2017 • 36m
Augustine’s “Confessions,” a new translation by Sarah Ruden (Modern Library, 2017)
Jun 1, 2017 • 1h 5m
Gregory Reichberg, “Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
May 30, 2017 • 1h 17m
Yuval Harari, “Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Mar 27, 2017 • 37m
Nathan Hofer, “The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)
Jan 27, 2017 • 49m
Surekha Davies, “Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Jan 12, 2017 • 58m
Gail Ashton, ed. “Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015/2017)
Dec 14, 2016 • 33m
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, “The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World” (Thames and Hudson, 2016)
Nov 28, 2016 • 1h 4m
Andrew Cole, “The Birth of Theory” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)
Oct 27, 2016 • 1h 3m
Christopher Woolgar, “The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500” (Yale UP, 2016)
Sep 30, 2016 • 57m
Ahmed Ragab, “The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, Charity” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Sep 21, 2016 • 36m
E.R. Truitt, “Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Sep 21, 2016 • 54m
Neil Kent, “Crimea: A History” (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 2, 2016 • 1h 5m
Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jul 25, 2016 • 49m
John Freed, “Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth” (Yale UP, 2016)
Jul 15, 2016 • 1h 9m
Aisha Geissinger, “Gender and the Construction of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur’an Commentary (Brill, 2015)
Jul 12, 2016 • 52m
Miranda Brown, “The Art of Medicine in Early China: The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jul 5, 2016 • 52m
Jennifer Bain, “Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception: The Modern Revival of Medieval Composer” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jan 19, 2016 • 1h 19m
Zeki Saritoprak, “Islam’s Jesus” (University of Florida Press, 2015)
Dec 17, 2015 • 51m
Brian P. Copenhaver, “Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment” (Cambridge UP, 2015 )
Dec 15, 2015 • 1h 11m
Karen Bauer, “Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Nov 12, 2015 • 56m
Kecia Ali, “The Lives of Muhammad” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Aug 25, 2015 • 51m
James Turner, “Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Aug 10, 2015 • 1h 6m
Eugene N. Anderson, “Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Mar 15, 2015 • 1h 1m
Charlotte Eubanks, “Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (U of California Press, 2011)
Feb 6, 2015 • 1h 13m
Paul Copp, “The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Oct 27, 2014 • 59m
Eugene Y. Park, “A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tokhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea” (Stanford UP, 2014)
Oct 20, 2014 • 1h 6m
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse" (Columbia UP, 2014)
Sep 29, 2014 • 1h 1m
Ovamir Anjum, “Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Aug 22, 2014 • 1h 8m
Christina Laffin, “Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women” (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)
Jul 15, 2014 • 1h 6m
Brian A. Catlos, “Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050-1614” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jul 8, 2014 • 1h 2m
Najam Haider, “The Origins of the Shia: Identity, Ritual, and Sacred Space in Eighth-Century Kufa” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
May 23, 2014 • 42m
Sarah Pessin, “Ibn Gabirol’s Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Feb 15, 2014 • 1h 16m
Rebecca Williams, “Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views” (Routledge, 2013)
Feb 3, 2014 • 1h 13m
David Spafford, “A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)
Jan 7, 2014 • 1h 15m
Sarra Tlilli, “Animals in the Qur’an” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Oct 17, 2013 • 1h 2m
Michael D. Bailey, “Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies: The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe” (Cornell University Press, 2013)
Aug 5, 2013 • 52m
Martha C. Howell, “Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
Jul 17, 2013 • 1h 8m
Kevin Gray Carr, “Plotting the Prince: Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism” (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
Feb 6, 2013 • 1h 8m
Christopher I. Beckwith, “Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Jan 22, 2013 • 1h 21m
Jack W. Chen, “The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty” (Harvard Yenching Institute, 2010)
Dec 13, 2012 • 1h 12m
Carl S. Yamamoto, “Vision and Violence: Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-Century Tibet” (Brill, 2012)
Oct 24, 2012 • 1h 9m
Christopher Nugent, “Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)
Oct 13, 2012 • 1h 15m
Ethan Segal, “Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
Jul 2, 2012 • 1h 3m
Xiaofei Tian, "Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China" (Harvard UP, 2011)
May 23, 2012 • 1h 8m
Hank Glassman, “The Face of JizÅ: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism” (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
May 10, 2012 • 56m
Jay Rubenstein, “Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse” (Basic Books, 2011)
Nov 23, 2011 • 1h 4m
Robert Pasnau, “Metaphysical Themes: 1274-1671” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Jul 15, 2011 • 1h 3m
Joyce Salisbury, “The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages” (Routledge, 2011)
Jan 21, 2011 • 1h 0m
Brett Whalen, “Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages” (Harvard UP, 2009)
Sep 18, 2009 • 55m
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