Meeting in the Middle Ages

This month we're chatting with Dr. Nicholas Morton, Associate Professor of History at Nottingham Trent University about his recent book, The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East. We hear about writing history from multiple perspectives, get into the intricacies of writing a book, and learn why you should always stay away from mice if you've been bitten by a leopard. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/nicholas-morton/the-mongol-storm/9781541616301/?lens=basic-books https://www.youtube.com/@MedievalNearEast https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton

This month we’re chatting with Dr. Katherine Storm Hindley, Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, about her recent book, Textual Magic Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England (University of Chicago Press). Discover the magical power of charms in the medieval world, how to find and catalog them, and why modern tattoos might connect us to medieval charms.  Dr. Hindley's faculty profile: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/cris/rp/rp00289 Textual Magic Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England : https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo193302771.html

To kick off the new academic year, we are releasing this conversation with Dr. Dov Honick, recent alumnus of the Medieval Institute. We muse about the broader field of Medieval Studies, discuss Dov's path from Arthuriana to a dissertation, and hear about his exciting work on Peter Alfonsi and Peter the Venerable. Find out more about Dr. Honick: https://www.aarome.org/people/rome-prize-fellows/dov-honick https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/news/mi-student-wins-2-prestiougous-prizes/

This month we sit down with Dr. Anne Elise Crafton, recent alum of the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute and current postdoctoral fellow. We chat about their recent dissertation, "You Sound Like a Wif: The Representation of Women's Speech in Old English," Tolkien's legacy of creating medievalists, and the difficulties of finding and categorizing every single example of women's speech in all Old English texts. Find out more about Dr. Crafton on their personal website: https://www.annecrafton.com/

This month we continue our conversation with Dr. Michelle P. Brown, professor emerita of medieval manuscript studies at the University of London and former curator of illuminated manuscripts at the British Library. We talk about bringing medieval England to the general public, preparing mentally for working with manuscripts, and (possibly) finding Bede's very own handwriting.