Medieval Sexuality with Eleanor Janega
Sexuality was a huge part of medieval culture, from the rules about how and when to have sex, to the dirty jokes that found their way into religious art. This week, Danièle speaks with Dr. Eleanor Jan...
8 Mai 201937min
She-Wolves: Medieval Queens with Helen Castor
From the submissive to the scandalous, medieval queens held a huge amount of influence over the politics of the day. In this episode, Danièle speaks with Dr. Helen Castor about queenship, the challeng...
24 Apr 201942min
Medieval torture with Larissa ‘Kat’ Tracy
What was torture really like in the Middle Ages? Everyone knows, or thinks they know, that torture was an integral part of medieval life, but many of our beliefs are really myths. Larissa ‘Kat’ Tracy ...
17 Apr 201937min
Fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
A special episode of The Medieval Podcast to discuss the tragic fire that has left much of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris destroyed. Danièle talks with Peter Konieczny, Editor of Medievalists.net, to r...
16 Apr 201917min
Saving Souls and Cracking Skulls: Warrior Clerics with Craig Nakashian
Although it seems to be a fundamental contradiction, some medieval conflicts saw bishops braving the battlefield. To find out more about these military men of the cloth, Danièle speaks with Craig Naka...
10 Apr 201931min
Melusine, Mary, and Making it as a Historian with Christine Morgan
These days, there are many different ways to be a historian outside of academia. In this episode, Danièle speaks with Christine Morgan, creator of Untitled History Project, about her latest work on th...
3 Apr 201937min
Viking warrior women with Leszek Gardela
The recent (re)confirmation that the prestigious medieval warrior buried in Birka, Sweden was female has gotten people talking once again about the role of women in the Viking world. This week, Danièl...
27 Mar 201939min
Avicenna in Ireland: A manuscript discovery with Padraig O'Machain
This month, an exciting connection was made between Islamic and Irish medicine through the discovery of a medieval fragment of Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine bound in a sixteenth-century printed book. I...
20 Mar 201928min
