Meeting in the Middle Ages

Meeting in the Middle Ages is the Medieval Institute of Notre Dame's podcast. Our goal is to answer the questions "what do medievalists do, and how do they do it?" Episodes—a new one each month—are built around informal conversations between our hosts, Ben and Will, and medievalist scholars and graduate students. We discuss how they became medievalists, what led them to their current research, the resources they use, and how they use them.

Meeting in the Middle Ages is a history podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 35 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #35

  35: Adventures in Bernard's Affective Mysticism with Dr. Macie Sweet

  Jul 31, 202639 min

  Tired of the endless onslaught of addictive short form content on your social media feeds? Join us this month as we rediscover the simple power of our senses through the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux with Dr. Macie Sweet, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Loyola University New Orleans. Dr. Sweet provides insight into the exciting transitions of a scholar early in their career, shares about her writing process, and reminisces about her first foray into the exciting world of medieval mysticism. Contact information for Dr. Sweet: mlsweet@loyno.edu https://www.bl.uk/collection/digitised-manuscripts-archives

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  Episode #34

  34: Bringing the Medieval to Mississippi: Teaching Medieval Literature in the American South with Dr. Anne Crafton

  May 31, 202634 minS0

  <p>This month, Dr. Anne Elise Crafton returns to the podcast to update us on their first year as the Professor of Early Literature and Linguistics at Mississippi University for Women. We discuss how medieval studies changes based on context, the joys and woes of a new professor's first year teaching, and how Mississippians handle the finer points of Old English poetry translation.</p><p><br></p><p>https://www.annecrafton.com/home</p>

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  Episode #33

  33: Written in Copper: Charters, Kinship, and Medieval South Asia with Dr. Mekhola Gomes

  Apr 30, 202639 minS0

  <p>This month, we chat with Dr. Mekhola Gomes, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College, about copper plate land grants, kinship, and what it means to study the Middle Ages outside of Europe. Dr. Gomes discusses her book project on how kinship and property shaped early medieval India between the third and eighth centuries, and reflects on how medieval studies is expanding its horizons. We also talk about the joys of slowly, painstakingly reading ancient inscriptions, teaching the Ramayana to undergraduates, and why understanding the past on its own terms still matters.</p><p>R...

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  32: Zoroastrian Priests under Islam: Remapping Religious Landscapes with Dr. Kayla Dang

  Mar 31, 202650 minS0

  <p>What happens to an ancient priesthood when the balance of power changes? This month, we’re joined by Dr. Kayla Dang, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Saint Louis University, to uncover the dramatic transformation of the Zoroastrian priesthood. We learn who Zoroaster was, and we dive into the world of the 9th and 10th centuries to understand how a vast administrative bureaucracy reinvented itself — navigating life alongside Christians and Jews — to keep a faith alive under Islamic rule. From the linguistic puzzles of medieval sources to the “invisible” presence of Muslims in the Zoroastrian texts, we explore how this commu...

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  Episode #31

  31: From Damascus to Byzantium: Tracing Christian-Muslim Relations across the Middle Ages with Dr. Manolis Ulbricht

  Feb 28, 202640 minS0

  <p>This month, we speak with Dr. Manolis Ulbricht, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Ulbricht has been tracing the transmission of Greek translations of the Qur'an and their use in Byzantine anti-Islamic polemic. We discuss his unexpected career turn from a Volkswagen internship in China to medieval history, his experience studying Arabic in Syria, and how several medieval anti-Islamic stereotypes persist to this day.</p><p><br></p><p>To reach out to Dr. Ulbricht: manolis.ulbricht@nd.edu</p>

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