Listen now! In this episode, Reed and Loren chat with co-founder of popular site Medievalists.net Peter Konieczny about the history of...

Listen now! In this episode, art historian Christopher T. Richards chats with Jon and Reed about what we can learn from medieval theories...

Listen now! The peasantry constituted an impressive percentage of the medieval population. Historiography has not ignored the existence...

Listen now! In this episode, MMA series producer and host Reed O'Mara chats with organizers of and participants in Cosmic Ecologies:...

This podcast episode presents a scholarly examination of a significant mural painting located within the Alhambra Palace in Granada,...

Afghanistan today is—in the eyes of politicians, pundits, soldiers, scholars, and many others—a medieval space. It is all too often...

Listen now! Medievalism has been a common, and hardly innocent practice, in eastern European political discourses ever since the...

Listen now! Recent years have seen the re-ignition of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The...

In this episode, four scholars from the “Conques in the Global World” project sit down for a round-table style discussion about how the...

In this episode, Amanda Váldes Sánchez addresses the crucial role of Marian devotion in the Castilian domination of the former territory...

In the centuries after the Norman Conquest, as many as eight languages were spoken in the British Isles: English, Anglo-Norman, Latin,...

What is the relationship between so-called “built” and “natural” environments as they are represented in medieval literature, and what is...

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...

Join your episode co-hosts Kersti Francis (BU) and Misho Ishikawa (NYU) for a lively conversation with Chris Chism (UCLA) about prequels...

What did medieval music sound like? How can we read and perform the musical notation from medieval manuscripts? What does singing and...

(!) This post was originally published June 2023. It has been updated with still images from the upcoming film Revelations of Divine...

Underexplored media in the discourse of pop medievalisms are those which emerged in the era of Kurt Cobain and Furbies, of Pokémon and...

In this episode, Liam Waters (UC Berkeley) and Ana Núñez (Stanford) discuss New Materialism as a disciplinary approach to the Middle...

Within a cultural climate where representations of the medieval are often employed to serve racist and white supremacist ends, the topic...

Although much scholarship on the Middle Ages uses the model of “great men” to describe this time period, “Women, Books, and Pregnancy in...