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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast brings together medievalists from all professional and disciplinary tracks to think and talk about the diversity of the Middle Ages.
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A Multiplicity of Voices: Music and Identity in the Middle Ages (opens the original)
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What did it mean to have a voice in the Middle Ages? And why is music essential for understanding the medieval voice? Join musicologists Saagar Asnani and Flannery McIntyre as they discuss how the voice can reveal the relationship between music and identity. For more information, visit www.multiculturalmiddleages.com .
Unknown Hands: Women Copying the Medieval Book (opens the original)
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In 2019, the discovery of ultramarine pigment in the dental calculus of a medieval woman provided the first physical evidence of female scribes, challenging the widespread assumption that manuscript copying was an exclusively male activity. In this episode, scholar Estelle Guéville draws on her doctoral research to explore the overlooked history of medieval women scribes and show how they played a far more significant role in literacy and book production than traditionally believed. For more inf
A Saint Between Worlds: A Global History of the Relics of Saint Louis of Toulouse (opens the original)
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As a saint caught between the Italian and Iberian worlds, Saint Louis of Toulouse (d. 1297) is an important yet often forgotten piece of the religious and political history of Iberian expansion. In this episode, PhD candidate Jessica Minieri and MMA Pod producer Loren Cantrell trace the long history of the theft, movement, and translation of the relics of Louis of Toulouse—a saint associated with the House of Anjou in the Kingdom of Naples. Between his death and 1800, Louis’s relics were split b
Charlemagne and the Jewish Communities of the Latin West (opens the original)
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In this episode, Loraine Enlow chats with Pilar Rivett about Rivett’s research on ninth-century baptismal and exorcistic rites and Jewish–Christian relations under Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. Their conversation challenges scholarly assumptions about a decline in the culture of diasporic Judaism in the Latin West in pre-Rabbinic times (4th–9th centuries). Instead, they argue in favor of a Latin Jewish textual tradition. For more information, visit www.multiculturalmiddleages.com .
Books Without Borders: Arabic Manuscripts and the Making of the Global Middle Ages (opens the original)
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In this episode, Mourad Tadghout explores how manuscript cultures shaped intellectual exchange across medieval Eurasia and the Mediterranean. Focusing on the transmission of texts such as Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine, Tadghout traces the movement of knowledge from Baghdad to Toledo and beyond. The episode highlights the collaborative nature of translation, commentary, and scholarly exchange, challenging narratives of isolation and rethinking the medieval world as deeply interconnected across cul
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