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Medieval History
Interviews with scholars of medieval history about their new books.
November 23, 2024
The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
In The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West (Cambridge UP, 2022), Phillip Lieberman revisi…
November 22, 2024
Monstrous Fantasies
Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500 (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Leila Norako asks w…
November 12, 2024
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World
During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expres…
November 6, 2024
Dante's Education
In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent i…
November 4, 2024
Experimental Histories
In Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Hannah Weaver examines the mediaeval prac…
November 1, 2024
Magisteria
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespr…
November 1, 2024
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales
Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, Reimagining t…
October 31, 2024
Shiva's Waterfront Temples
The vibrant red sandstone temples of India's Deccan Plateau, such as the Pattadakal temple cluster, have attracted visitors since the eighth century o…
October 30, 2024
Classical Sanskrit Tragedy
It is often assumed that classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic. However, as Bihani Sarkar makes clear in Classical Sanskr…
October 28, 2024
Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness
Dr. Dennis Wuerthner’s Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo (U Hawaii Press, 2024) is the first complete English translat…
October 28, 2024
Slaves of God
Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of G…
October 26, 2024
Marco Polo and His World
Sharon Kinoshita talks with Jana Byars about her new book, Marco Polo and His World (Reaktion Press, 2024). A lavishly illustrated tour of the famed a…
October 22, 2024
Frederick Barbarossa
For all of his importance as a medieval ruler, there are surprisingly few biographies in English of the German emperor Frederick Barbarossa (c. 1122-1…
October 9, 2024
Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520
For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation look…
October 7, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur “Genius Prize” winning historian Pamela Long about her long career writing about the history o…
October 6, 2024
Half of My Heart
Today I talked to Christopher Paul Clohessy about Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî (Gorgias Press, 2020). As Abû ʿAbd Allâ…
September 30, 2024
The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road
From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. …
September 29, 2024
The Green Ages
Annette Kehnel joins Jana Byars to talk about The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (Brandeis University Press, 2024). A fascinating …
September 24, 2024
Crusader Criminals
In Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land (Yale University Press, 2024), Dr. Steve Tibble presents a vivid new history of the…
September 20, 2024
Agincourt
Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking study by Michael Livingston …