New Books in Medieval History

Interview with scholars of the Medieval World about their new books

History
401
Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
An interview with Michael D. Bailey, Miri Rubin, and Sean Field
63 min
402
Sara Ritchey, "Acts of Care: Recovering Women i...
An interview with Sara Ritchey
57 min
403
Lokesh Ohri, "Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hindu...
An interview with Lokesh Ohri
34 min
404
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Lang...
An interview with Jeffrey Shandler
60 min
405
Erin L. Brightwell, "Reflecting the Past: Place...
An interview with Erin L. Brightwell
49 min
406
Roy Flechner, "Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend...
An interview with Roy Flechner
46 min
407
Brian Cummings et al., "Memory and the English ...
An interview with Brian Cummins and Alexandra Walsham
48 min
408
Richard Kalmin, "Migrating Tales: The Talmud's ...
An interview with Richard Kalmin
46 min
409
Ethan Pollock, "Without the Banya We Would Peri...
An interview with Ethan Pollock
65 min
410
Charles Hirschkind, "The Feeling of History: Is...
An interview with Charles Hirschkind
87 min
411
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, "A Fourth-Century Daoist ...
An interview with Stephen R. Bokenkamp
48 min
412
Michael D. Bailey, "Origins of the Witches' Sab...
An interview with Michael D. Bailey
46 min
413
Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a C...
An interview with Marina Rustow
74 min
414
Miri Rubin, "Cities of Strangers: Making Lives ...
An interview with Miri Rubin
43 min
415
Priya Satia, "Time's Monster: How History Makes...
How we see the past helps shape our understanding of the present...
68 min
416
Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieva...
Pinnington traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts...
45 min
417
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: F...
The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages...
28 min
418
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages:...
An interview with Roland Betancourt
68 min
419
Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How I...
Darke investigates the Islamic origins of Gothic architecture, tracing its history through pre-Islamic Syria through the Islamic empires to the tall European cathedrals between the 12th and 17th centuries...
34 min
420
Dale Kedwards, "The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Ic...
The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, scientific thinking and regional geopolitics...
64 min
421
John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Percept...
Tolan offers a fascinating and rich survey of the complex perceptions of Muhammad as understood by Christian Europeans..,
54 min
422
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Network...
Kim offers a fascinating study of the transcultural underpinnings of Medieval East Asian Buddhist traditions with an emphasis on Shinra Myōjin, a deity integral to the institutional development of the Medieval Japanese Tendai faction, the Jimon...
81 min
423
Alexander Lee, "Humanism and Empire: The Imperi...
Lee looks at the relationship between humanists of northern Italy and the Holy Roman Empire...
100 min
424
Martyn Rady, "The Habsburgs: To Rule the World"...
Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built -- and then lost -- over nearly a millennium...
57 min
425
M. R. Jackson Bonner, "The Last Empire of Iran"...
Despite the competition it posed to the Romans’ eastern empire and the longevity it enjoyed compared to its Iranian predecessors,..
68 min