The Travels of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sawma with Thomas A. Carlson
Pretty much everyone has heard about Marco Polo and his thirteenth-century journey from Italy to China. But just as the Polos were making th...
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20 of 354 episodes350 Episodes: A Celebration
In honour of 350 episodes of The Medieval Podcast, Danièle celebrates the amazing progress that's been made in Medieval Studies since 2019....
Replay: Live at Leeds with Eleanor Janega
It’s summertime and your friendly neighbourhood medievalist is taking a much-needed week off, so here's a blast from the not-so-distant past...
Widow City with Anna Wainwright
Although death is just a natural and expected part of life – especially in the Middle Ages – it’s also an event that forever alters the live...
A Medieval Paper Armoury with Chassica Kirchhoff
To picture the Middle Ages is to picture knights in shining armour. Custom-made, fashionable, and often beautiful, medieval armour was more...
The Peasant Kitchen with Luis Almenar Fernández
So often, we see the homes – and lives – of peasants represented as drab and empty. But the reality is bright, busy, fashionable, and colour...
Royal Receipts with Abigail S. Armstrong
You can tell a lot about people by their spending habits. What do they buy for themselves? And what do they buy for other people? This week,...
Medieval Pubs with Peter Dobek
It’s the local watering hole. The place where business is done, and moments are celebrated. And it’s the place where you can literally see a...
Europe's Last Pagan Peoples with Francis Young
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the practices of ancient and medieval Celts, and how those practices were transformed and integrated int...
Medieval Mass Expulsions with Rowan Dorin
The medieval period is well known for several large-scale and horrific persecutions, especially ones based on religious grounds. One of thes...
Celtic Magic with Brigid Ehrmantraut
Have you ever wanted to put a curse on someone? How about ask a river goddess for some healing? Or maybe speak a charm that’ll make your lif...
The Life and Voyages of St. Brendan with Gordon Barthos
Just in time for his feast day on May 16, we’re looking at St. Brendan, an Irish saint whose holy encounters included island-sized whales, l...
Mary Magdalene on Stage with Joanne Findon
In the medieval world, people interacted with Biblical history and the adventures of their favourite saints in all sorts of ways – including...
Financing Queenship with Michele Seah
The English queens of the fifteenth century have had a serious popularity boost in the last twenty years, thanks to novels and TV series sho...
Five Life Lessons from Ten Years as an Author
This week, Danièle celebrates ten years of The Five-Minute Medievalist by sharing some of the life lessons she's learned since the book came...
Medieval Musical Romances with Nigel Bryant and Matthew P. Thomson
It’s always a great moment when you’re watching a play or a movie, and suddenly one of your favourite songs appears to heighten the mood. Al...
Self-Help and the Seven Deadly Sins with Peter Jones
We’ve all been there: suddenly face-to-face with our ugliest selves, wrestling with pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony, or lust. A...
Patterns of Plague with Lori Jones
There are some very entrenched cultural ideas about the plague these days, involving big, beaky masks, and agonized people flagellating them...
Comparing Women's Work with Nena Vandeweerdt
Last week, we talked about a woman whose work was to support her husband’s dreams of conquest – and her son’s dreams of rebellion. But what...
Mathilda of Flanders with Laura Gathagan
They say that behind every successful man is a woman, and when it comes to one of the biggest medieval stories of personal success, that see...