Five Life Lessons from Ten Years as an Author
This week, Danièle celebrates ten years of The Five-Minute Medievalist by sharing some of the life lessons she's learned since the book came out - and some of the lessons that she just keeps on having...
23 Apr 38min
Medieval Musical Romances with Nigel Bryant and Matthew P. Thomson
It’s always a great moment when you’re watching a play or a movie, and suddenly one of your favourite songs appears to heighten the mood. All of a sudden, you’re even more deeply emotionally invested ...
16 Apr 52min
Self-Help and the Seven Deadly Sins with Peter Jones
We’ve all been there: suddenly face-to-face with our ugliest selves, wrestling with pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony, or lust. AKA the Seven Deadly Sins. In the Middle Ages, Christian thin...
9 Apr 58min
Patterns of Plague with Lori Jones
There are some very entrenched cultural ideas about the plague these days, involving big, beaky masks, and agonized people flagellating themselves in the street. But the way people thought about and t...
2 Apr 46min
Comparing Women's Work with Nena Vandeweerdt
Last week, we talked about a woman whose work was to support her husband’s dreams of conquest – and her son’s dreams of rebellion. But what about the medieval women whose work was a little more ordina...
26 Mar 45min
Mathilda of Flanders with Laura Gathagan
They say that behind every successful man is a woman, and when it comes to one of the biggest medieval stories of personal success, that seems to have been true. Everyone’s heard of William the Conque...
19 Mar 1h
On the Supremacy of the Pope with Patrick Nold
When the king is semi-divine and the pope speaks for God, himself, who is the boss of whom? It’s a question most of us don’t spend our days contemplating, but in the Middle Ages, this philosophical de...
12 Mar 44min
The Welles-Ros Bible with Kathryn A. Smith
Much in debate in England in the fourteenth century was how – and even if – the Bible should be translated into everyday language. Enter Maud de Ros, Lady Welles, the woman responsible for the most co...
5 Mar 45min
