Disney and Byzantium with Roland Betancourt
American Medieval26 Marras 2025

Disney and Byzantium with Roland Betancourt

In this episode, Roland and Matt talk about Disney and the Byzantine Empire (not in that order). Plus we talk about how the process of studying the past can lead you down interesting rabbit holes and connect, for example, the Byzantine Empire and Disney.



Guest

Roland Betancourt is currently the Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and is also a Chancellor’s Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. He’s the author of four books, broadly on the histories of science and technology, intellectual history, and the history of art in the Byzantine Empire. His new book is Disneyland and the Rise of Automation (to be released in April 2026). You can find more about him online at his faculty website - https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=6060.



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About Us

American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. Each week, joined by expert guests, we’ll explore either some fascinating part of the medieval world, or some way Americans have used this period to help them understand themselves.

After all, if America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.

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