Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast

Sarah brings Ollie back from exile to talk about the Amazon series "Rings of Power".

Did the show nail the feeling of Tolkien? Did the actors make you believe in them? Should an elf be thinking about making love to a perfectly normal human man?

Find out all of this and more in the latest episode of Media-eval!

Happy Holidays from Media-eval! Join Sarah and her dad Richard as we stretch the definition of medieval to talk about Ghostbusters II, featuring the imaginary early modern dictator Vigo the Carpathian. Check out the perhaps surprising medieval content of the film, including traditions of portraiture, references to Vlad the Impaler, and the concept of living paintings in medieval culture.

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Join Sarah and guests Clio and Mireille, of Clio/Mireille: A Fanfiction Podcast as we discuss the ultimate work of Shakespeare fanfiction: 1998 Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love! We talk literary analysis, the canonicity of Shakespeare, Elizabethan dental hygiene, and all the queer overtones that this film is desperate for its audience not to notice.

Enjoy this episode? Listen to Sarah, Clio, and Mireille talking Lord of the Rings fanfiction on their podcast!

CW: We briefly discuss Harvey Weinstein’s involvement in this film

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Check out Clio/Mireille: A Fanfiction Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clio-mireille-a-fanfiction-podcast/id1638750795 and follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClioSlashMire

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The “King Arthur Babies” miniseries continues (and ends), as Sarah’s mom Beth Greenfeld comes on to discuss 2019 film The Kid Who Would Be King! Join Sarah and Beth as they grapple with the challenges of importing chivalry into the 21st century, do a deep dive on the Lady of the Lake, and have a classic Media-eval Latin grammar lesson.

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Find Beth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bethg20904

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Jessica Bluemke Greiff of Friendly Atheist Podcast is back to discuss A Kid in King Arthur’s Court! Join Sarah and Jessica for some 90s childhood nostalgia—in a film that might not totally hold up to adult viewing. Come for our in-depth review of the film, stay for our discussion of the use of “mutton” as an insult and an excellent medieval recipe for goat’s head.

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Find Jessica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessBluemke

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Happy Halloween from Media-eval! Sarah and guest Elizabeth Bonnemann discuss the first two seasons of animated series Castlevania. Join us as we talk vampires and demons (the reason for the season), as well as the recent discovery of a real Romanian medieval library, the historical Vlad Tepes Dracula and how he became connected with vampire lore, and why it is in fact historically accurate for the Belmont family to have a box of spells about penises.

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Find Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LizzieStrider and on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/shadow-academic.

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Sarah is joined by medievalist and author Phil Adamo for a conversation about his new book, The Medievalist. We explore the white supremacist uses and misuses of the medieval past and some of the challenges facing medievalists today grappling with these issues, and get into the history of the Voynich Manuscript, medieval forgeries, and (of course) the foreskin of Christ.

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Find Phil Adamo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WriterPhilAdamo and at his website www.philadamo.com

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Sarah is once again joined by guest Elizabeth Bonnemann as we dive back into Doctor Who with our first audio drama! Join us as we tackle 2000 audio serial “The Marian Conspiracy” and explore Catholic-Protestant conflicts, ale and beer in Early Modern English taverns, and the not-quite-medieval history of the cardigan.

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Find Elizabeth on Twitter @LizzieStrider and on Tumbler at Shadow Academic

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Ollie said he would return for DnD....Sarah just didn't tell him which DnD it would be!

Join us as we discuss season 1 of the Amazon Prime adaptation of Critical Roles Vox Machina campaign. Can some voice actors improv a better story with more pathos and drama than most highly paid hollywood screenwriters? you bet your sweet butts they can!

Media-eval is back this week with something a little different! Join Sarah and guest Erika Harlitz-Kern, of The Boomerang, as we discuss what it means to be public medievalists - and discuss Erika's future appearance to discuss the upcoming film Medieval!

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Find Erika on Twitter @eh_kern and at The Boomerang (ehkern.com)

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