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Sarah Ifft Decker, a medieval historian, explores how movies, tv, and books depict the medieval world. What did they get right? What did they get wrong? And what do they tell us about how modern peopl... more
FAQs about Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast:How many episodes does Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast have?The podcast currently has 163 episodes available.
September 07, 2019Season Of The WitchSarah and guest Megan Tripp of Not Another Bad Movie Podcast talk about a classic (?) good-bad medieval movie, Season of the Witch - Nic Cage's first appearance on Media-eval, but Ron Perlman's second. Come for the bizarre choice to move the Crusades forward a century in time; stay for the claim that a pair of knights ended the Black Death forever by murdering a demon; explore the question of if this movie has any female characters.CW for brief mention of rape and torture....more1h 14minPlay
August 24, 2019CadfaelSarah and fellow medievalist Abigail Agresta talk about why there's no Eustace VIII, medieval attitudes toward lepers, and the challenges of setting a forensic-evidence-based mystery series in medieval England in our discussion of the ITV series Cadfael. This is also the first Media-eval episode where everyone is in the same room ... and that room was in Barcelona! CW: for discussion of rape/sexual assault in one episode....more1h 60minPlay
August 10, 2019Robin Hood (Disney 1973)It's the one with the sexy fox! In a discussion of Media-eval's favorite Robin Hood so far, Sarah and guests Dawn and Ileana talk about the sad absence of Eleanor of Aquitaine, childhood crushes on animated foxes, animals in medieval bestiaries, and the real reason Disney reused animated sequences....more1h 27minPlay
July 27, 2019Monty Python and the Holy GrailSarah and guest Maeve Doyle get into witch burning, burial of Black Death victims, and medieval marginalia in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Enjoy Media-eval's very first episode with not one, but TWO medievalists!...more1h 52minPlay
July 13, 2019Robin Hood (2018)Sarah and Ollie watch one of the worst movies of 2018. If you've ever wanted to see the Crusades depicted as a Church plot to depose the king AND the War in Iraq, our discussion of Robin Hood is the podcast episode for you....more1h 44minPlay
June 29, 2019Kingdom of HeavenSarah's pick this week. It....might be the worst movie we've done. Ollie says "like" around 1 million times this episode. And remember, it's ok to like a movie. even this one....more2h 18minPlay
June 15, 2019The Three Musketeers (2011)We watched the steampunk Three Musketeers movie ... and wished we hadn't. Come for the complaints about bad acting, plotting, and history; stay for the adorable animals making noise in the background!...more1h 31minPlay
June 01, 2019Outlaw KingJoin Ollie, Sarah, and special guest Tracy Tanoff for what turned out to be another extra NSFW episode ... since like all other reviewers of Outlaw King, we talked about Chris Pine's role as "Richard the Bruce" almost as much as his role as Robert the Bruce."...more2h 16minPlay
May 18, 2019Dangerous BeautyPoetry, fancy prostitutes, AND the Inquisition? Join Ollie and Sarah as we move forward in time to discuss Dangerous Beauty, a movie about real early modern woman Veronica Franco! It even passes the Ifft Decker test AND the Bechdel test....more1h 27minPlay
May 04, 2019The Little Hoursa movie that really divides the hosts this week. One of us hated it and the other loved it. join us for this "comedy" about some very bad Nuns in medieval Italy....more1h 32minPlay
FAQs about Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast:How many episodes does Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast have?The podcast currently has 163 episodes available.