Medieval Grad Podcast

Medieval Grad Podcast

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Medieval Grad Podcast episodes

  • The Persian Art of Persuasion
    How to convince a Prince? In this episode, Faraz Alidina talks to Lucie Laumonier about his work on Persian literature. Faraz researches more specifically the works of a poet named Attar, who lived in Iran in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century. Attar mastered the art of rhetoric and persuasion through the telling of fables, in the manner of the stories of the One Thousand and One Nights.
    25 min
  • Abduction, Marriage and Consent in the Middle Ages

    What did it mean to abduct your fiancé? Lucie Laumonier talks with Chanelle Delameillieure about marriage and consent in the late medieval Low Countries. Chanelle is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leuven, in Belgium, currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in the United States. We learn that consented abductions were a thing, but that they could lead to contentious outcomes!

    31 min
  • Environmental Disasters in Medieval France
    How did medieval people deal with natural disasters? In this episode, Lucie speaks with Brian Forman, whose research focuses on responses to environmental disasters in three late medieval communities of medieval France. As we find out in the podcast, late medieval municipalities implemented a wide array of strategies to mitigate and prevent climatic catastrophes, sometimes religious, and at other times practical.
    28 min
  • Medieval Chess: Alfonso X's Book of Games

    From chess and backgammon to politics, courtly culture and race relations. Lucie Laumonier interviews Alexandra Montero Peters about her research into the wonderfully illuminated thirteenth-century manuscript known as the Book of Games. A great episode to know everything about chess, Iberian court culture and politics all at once!

    You can support this podcast on Patreon - go to https://www.patreon.com/medievalists

    31 min
  • The Road to Sainthood

    In the Middle Ages, making it to Sainthood was a tedious process. Though, being murdered in the Canterbury Cathedral was a good starting point. Lucie Laumonier interviews Tristan Taylor on his research into the so-called South English Legendaries, a collection of saints' lives drafted from the thirteenth century.

    You can support this podcast and Medievalists.net on Patreon - go to https://www.patreon.com/medievalists

    27 min
  • The Vikings' Slave Trade

    From Woven Sails to Slavery: Viking lovers, this episode is for you! Lucie Laumonier meets Sarah Christensen, a PhD student at Brown University who studies the slave trade in the Western Viking world and its intersections with gender. We learn that enslaved women often worked in textile production, weaving the sails Viking men used to propel their ships.

    You can support this podcast on Patreon - go to https://www.patreon.com/medievalists

    28 min
  • Were the Cathars even real?

    The Cathars are one of the most well-known heresies in medieval Europe. But how much do we know about them? In this episode, Lucie Laumonier interviews Jean-Paul Rehr about the mythical Cathars and a peculiar inquisition record drafted near Toulouse in the thirteenth century.

    28 min
  • Ancient DNA in the Western Mediterranean

    Ancient DNA has a lot to say about the people who walked the Earth in the Middle Ages… History and sciences are coming together and it's quite the crossover. In this episode of Medieval Grad Podcast, Lucie Laumonier interviews Reed Johnston Morgan, a history PhD candidate at Harvard University, who studies frontier communities in the Western Mediterranean at the turn of the Antique world and the early Middle Ages. Among Reed's sources is ancient DNA belonging to people who walked the Earth 1,500 years ago.

    You can support this podcast on Patreon - go to https://www.patreon.com/medievalists

    28 min
  • A Rotting Cat and a Damaged Penis

    Do you know what is the best weapon to attack your drinking pal outside of a tavern? A rotting cat, of course! In today's episode, Allison Bailey, a PhD candidate in history at the University of Toronto presents her research about the intersection of gender, violence and emotions in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France.

    26 min
  • Laughter, Satire and Medieval Parody

    What made medieval people laugh? To find out, Lucie Laumonier talks with Bryant White, a PhD student in French studies at Vanderbilt University. Bryant's research focuses on medieval satire and parody where he analyses representations of the clergy.

    You can follow Lucie on Instagram at The French Medievalist

    You can support this podcast through Patreon - go to https://www.patreon.com/medievalists

    29 min

About Medieval Grad Podcast

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Talking about the future of medieval studies with current graduate students and early career researchers. Lucie Laumonier interviews about all aspects of the Middle Ages.