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About Evan Zarkadas
Evan Zarkadas (MA) is an independent scholar of European and Medieval history and an educator. He received his master’s in history from the University of Maine focusing on Medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, medieval identity, and ethnicity during the late Middle Ages.
Evan Zarkadas (MA) is an independent scholar of European and Medieval history and an educator. He received his master’s in history from the University of Maine focusing on Medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, medieval identity, and ethnicity during the late Middle Ages.
NBN Episodes hosted by Evan:
June 2, 2024
Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250
Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On Crusade, ar…
April 7, 2024
The New Roman Empire
In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated mo…
November 4, 2023
Belisarius & Antonina
Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of his age, victor over the Pe…
July 25, 2023
Reimagining Christendom
With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries h…
March 27, 2023
The Fantasy of the Middle Ages
This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture. From the s…
December 10, 2022
Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World
Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World (Edinburgh UP, 2022) examines ideas, beliefs and practices of identification in the medieva…
November 30, 2022
The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe
A gulf of centuries separates the Byzantine Empire from the academic field of Byzantine studies. The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe off…
October 21, 2022
The Sea in the Middle
The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 (U California Press, 2022) presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development …
July 22, 2022
Orthodox Cyprus Under the Latins, 1191-1571
Medieval and Renaissance Cyprus was a fascinating place of ethnic, cultural, and religious encounters. Following almost nine centuries of Byzantine ru…
January 25, 2022
The Middle Ages
A unique, illustrated book that aspires to bring medieval history closer to the general audience will change the way you see medieval history, The Mid…
September 20, 2021
Cross-cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669
The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in contact with each other, and were often forced to co-…