In this episode, Reed and Loren chat with co-founder of popular site Medievalists.net Peter Konieczny about the history of the media outlet, what goes into building content for it, and all sorts of interesting things.
Peter Konieczny is the co-founder and owner of Medievalists.net. Peter has been working to spread knowledge about the Middle Ages online for over 20 years. Peter lives near Toronto, Canada, and enjoys all the books publishers send to him. When he is not reading about medieval history, you can find him trying to keep up with his son in Minecraft. Follow Peter on X/Twitter @medievalicious.
Loren Lee is a PhD candidate in the Department of French at the University of Virginia and serves as a member of the Medieval Academy of America's Graduate Student Committee. Her dissertation focuses on medieval manuscript and translation studies, digital humanities, and hagiography. Loren has received fellowships including the Chateaubriand Fellowship and the UVA–ENS Exchange Fellowship.
Reed O’Mara is a fifth-year PhD candidate and Mellon Foundation Fellow in the joint art history program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She focuses on the arts of medieval Germany, and her primary research interests lie in Jewish illuminated manuscripts and Gothic architectural sculpture. Reed's dissertation considers the complex histories of Hebrew and Yiddish in late medieval Europe through an examination of text and image relationships in Jewish illuminated manuscripts and Christian prints from Ashkenaz and Italy, ca. 1200-1500.