Multicultural Middle Ages with Reed O’Mara and Loren Cantrell

Grief/Pain and Turning Away in the Middle Ages with Benjamin Saltzman

Although our guest doesn’t still skateboard (much), he does have a great new book on the history of a gesture - to turn away from grief/ shame. What does it mean to bear witness in the medieval and modern worlds? Guest Benjamin A. Saltzman is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he coedits the journal Modern Philology. Saltzman is the author of the books Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England, and more recently Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo264591260.html]. See more on his website [https://www.bsaltzman.com/].  Credits * Host & Executive Producer: Matthew Gabriele. Find him on Bluesky @profgabriele.com [https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com]or his homepage profgabriele.com [http://profgabriele.com]  * Editor: Julia Schifini [https://www.juliaschifini.com/] * Music: “Sleeping Bags” by OTE * Art: Ulysses Gabriele [http://luckyfriendship.online] * Multitude: https://multitudeshows.com/ [https://multitudeshows.com/]  Find American Medieval Online * Website: AmericanMedieval.com [http://americanmedieval.com]  * Patreon: patreon.com/AmericanMedieval [http://patreon.com/AmericanMedieval]  * Insta: instagram.com/americanmedieval [https://instagram.com/americanmedieval]  * YouTube: youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval [https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval]  * Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social]  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. Sponsors Want to become a sponsor of American Medieval? Head over to https://www.multitudeshows.com/ads [https://www.multitudeshows.com/ads]  * As supporters of my Patreon [http://patreon.com/AmericanMedieval] know, I’m a big fan of cocktails. That’s why I’m happy to tell you about Shaker and Spoon [http://shakerandspoon.com]. Shaker and Spoon is a subscription cocktail experience kit, each box including 3 original recipes from award-winning bartenders, with enough ingredients for 12 (or more) drinks. Well, except the alcohol – or non-alcohol, because everything is adaptable to zero-proof. If you’ve ever been interested in trying cocktails but didn’ t know how to start, Shaker and Spoon is great because it teaches you how to shake, stir, build flavors, and garnish. You’ll learn about bitters, syrups, and aromatics with handy recipe cards and notes on how to start thinking like a mixologist. Start now and get 10%. Just head over to shakerandspoon.com [http://shakerandspoon.com] and use the code “AMM” at checkout to get 10% off. You’ll be “drinking with historians” in no time. * American Medieval [http://americanmedieval.com] is delighted to be partnering with Roundtable, at the 92nd street Y, in New York City, to offer a brand new online course – “The Medieval European Mind, in History and Literature.” The course will be entirely online and run for 4 sessions over 4 weeks, beginning on Thursday July 9. Live class sessions on Zoom will be from 2-3pm, but all sessions will be recorded. Each week, we’ll together think with an iconic medieval text, to talk about some aspect of the medieval - from the monsters of BEOWULF, to the monsters of the crusaders in Usama ibn Munqidh, to courtly love and King Arthur in Marie de France and SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.  And if that isn’t exciting enough, if you sign up now, you can get 30% off the registration price. Just head to roundtable.org [https://roundtable.org/live-courses/history/the-medieval-european-mind-encounters-with-history-and-literature] and enter the code “MEDIEVAL30” at checkout. Do it quick as space is limited.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Medieval America with Kathleen Duval

In this episode, Kathleen and Matt talk about vast early North America and all the peoples who inhabited it during (what Europeans call) the Middle Ages. There were cities, and then there weren’t. And the not having cities was better in a lot of ways, so we don’t need to cling to 19th-century stories about what’s “civilized” and what isn’t. Guests Kathleen DuVal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America as well as Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution and the U.S. history textbook Give Me Liberty! A history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she has written for The Atlantic, Time magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and she appeared in the recent Ken Burns film The American Revolution. You can find more about her, including links to order signed copies of her books, at https://kathleenduval.net/ [https://kathleenduval.net/] Credits * Host & Executive Producer: Matthew Gabriele. Find him on Bluesky @profgabriele.com [https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com]or his homepage profgabriele.com [http://profgabriele.com]  * Editor: Julia Schifini [https://www.juliaschifini.com/] * Music: “Sleeping Bags” by OTE * Art: Ulysses Gabriele [http://luckyfriendship.online] * Multitude: https://multitudeshows.com/ Find American Medieval Online * Website: AmericanMedieval.com [http://americanmedieval.com]  * Patreon: patreon.com/AmericanMedieval [http://patreon.com/AmericanMedieval]  * Insta: instagram.com/americanmedieval [https://instagram.com/americanmedieval]  * YouTube: youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval [https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval]  * Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social]  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. Sponsors Want to become a sponsor of American Medieval? Head over to https://www.multitudeshows.com/ads [https://www.multitudeshows.com/ads]  * As supporters of my Patreon [http://patreon.com/AmericanMedieval] know, I’m a big fan of cocktails. That’s why I’m happy to tell you about Shaker and Spoon [http://shakerandspoon.com]. Shaker and Spoon is a subscription cocktail experience kit, each box including 3 original recipes from award-winning bartenders, with enough ingredients for 12 (or more) drinks. Well, except the alcohol – or non-alcohol, because everything is adaptable to zero-proof. If you’ve ever been interested in trying cocktails but didn’ t know how to start, Shaker and Spoon is great because it teaches you how to shake, stir, build flavors, and garnish. You’ll learn about bitters, syrups, and aromatics with handy recipe cards and notes on how to start thinking like a mixologist. Start now and get 10%. Just head over to shakerandspoon.com [http://shakerandspoon.com] and use the code “AMM” at checkout to get 10% off. You’ll be “drinking with historians” in no time. * American Medieval [http://americanmedieval.com] is delighted to be partnering with Roundtable, at the 92nd street Y, in New York City, to offer a brand new online course – “The Medieval European Mind, in History and Literature.” The course will be entirely online and run for 4 sessions over 4 weeks, beginning on Thursday July 9. Live class sessions on Zoom will be from 2-3pm, but all sessions will be recorded. Each week, we’ll together think with an iconic medieval text, to talk about some aspect of the medieval - from the monsters of BEOWULF, to the monsters of the crusaders in Usama ibn Munqidh, to courtly love and King Arthur in Marie de France and SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.  And if that isn’t exciting enough, if you sign up now, you can get 30% off the registration price. Just head to roundtable.org [https://roundtable.org/live-courses/history/the-medieval-european-mind-encounters-with-history-and-literature] and enter the code “MEDIEVAL30” at checkout. Do it quick as space is limited.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Lost Worlds with Patrick Wyman

There’s something just amazing about being able to reconstruct a person’s life in the deep past, from say 5,000 years ago. Matt and Patrick talk in this episode about how being a medievalist helps think about our shared humanity and why history is so freakin’ exciting.  Guest Patrick Wyman is a historian and the host of the history podcast “Tides of History [https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/]” and now the new show “Past Lives [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/past-lives/id1852618120].” He's also the author of The Verge: Renaissance, Reformation, and Thirty Years that Shook the World [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/patrick-wyman/the-verge/9781538701171/?lens=twelve] and has a new book out now - Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/lost-worlds-patrick-wyman?variant=43084775817250]. See more at: https://www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia [https://www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia]   Credits * Host & Executive Producer: Matthew Gabriele. Find him on Bluesky @profgabriele.com [https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com]or his homepage profgabriele.com [http://profgabriele.com]  * Editor: Julia Schifini [https://www.juliaschifini.com/] * Music: “Sleeping Bags” by OTE * Art: Ulysses Gabriele [http://luckyfriendship.online] * Multitude: https://multitudeshows.com/ [https://multitudeshows.com/]  Find American Medieval Online * Website: AmericanMedieval.com [http://americanmedieval.com]  * Patreon: patreon.com/AmericanMedieval [http://patreon.com/AmericanMedieval]  * Insta: instagram.com/americanmedieval [https://instagram.com/americanmedieval]  * TikTok: tiktok.com/@americanmedieval [https://www.tiktok.com/@americanmedieval]  * YouTube: youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval [https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval]  * Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social]  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. Sponsors Want to become a sponsor of American Medieval? Head over to https://www.multitudeshows.com/ads [https://www.multitudeshows.com/ads]  * As supporters of my Patreon [http://patreon.com/AmericanMedieval] know, I’m a big fan of cocktails. That’s why I’m happy to tell you about Shaker and Spoon [http://shakerandspoon.com]. Shaker and Spoon is a subscription cocktail experience kit, each box including 3 original recipes from award-winning bartenders, with enough ingredients for 12 (or more) drinks. Well, except the alcohol – or non-alcohol, because everything is adaptable to zero-proof. If you’ve ever been interested in trying cocktails but didn’ t know how to start, Shaker and Spoon is great because it teaches you how to shake, stir, build flavors, and garnish. You’ll learn about bitters, syrups, and aromatics with handy recipe cards and notes on how to start thinking like a mixologist. Start now and get 10%. Just head over to shakerandspoon.com [http://shakerandspoon.com] and use the code “AMM” at checkout to get 10% off. You’ll be “drinking with historians” in no time. * American Medieval [http://americanmedieval.com] is delighted to be partnering with Roundtable, at the 92nd street Y, in New York City, to offer a brand new online course – “The Medieval European Mind, in History and Literature.” The course will be entirely online and run for 4 sessions over 4 weeks, beginning on Thursday July 9. Live class sessions on Zoom will be from 2-3pm, but all sessions will be recorded. Each week, we’ll together think with an iconic medieval text, to talk about some aspect of the medieval - from the monsters of BEOWULF, to the monsters of the crusaders in Usama ibn Munqidh, to courtly love and King Arthur in Marie de France and SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.  And if that isn’t exciting enough, if you sign up now, you can get 30% off the registration price. Just head to roundtable.org [https://roundtable.org/live-courses/history/the-medieval-european-mind-encounters-with-history-and-literature] and enter the code “MEDIEVAL30” at checkout. Do it quick as space is limited.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Multicultural Middle Ages with Reed O’Mara and Loren Cantrell

I think this might be a food podcast now because we talked a lot about cake. But also in this episode we talk about archives, how podcasts can demystify the medieval world, and how everyone should be welcomed into studying the Middle Ages. Guests Reed O'Mara is a PhD candidate in the joint art history program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art and is currently serving as the Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, Germany. Reed's research focuses on the arts of medieval Germany, specifically word and image relationships in Ashkenazi illuminated manuscripts. Loren Easterday Lee Cantrell is a producer of The Multicultural Middle Ages podcast, just completed her PhD in French at the University of Virginia. She specializes in Old French editing and translation, manuscript studies, and digital humanities. Bluesky: @loren325.bsky.social Credits * Host & Executive Producer: Matthew Gabriele. Find him on Bluesky @profgabriele.com [https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com]or his homepage profgabriele.com [http://profgabriele.com]  * Editor: Julia Schifini [https://www.juliaschifini.com/] * Music: “Sleeping Bags” by OTE * Art: Ulysses Gabriele [http://luckyfriendship.online] * Multitude: https://multitudeshows.com/ [https://multitudeshows.com/]  Find American Medieval Online * Website: AmericanMedieval.com [http://americanmedieval.com]  * Patreon: patreon.com/AmericanMedieval [http://patreon.com/AmericanMedieval]  * Insta: instagram.com/americanmedieval [https://instagram.com/americanmedieval]  * YouTube: youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval [https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval]  * Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social]  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. Sponsors Want to become a sponsor of American Medieval? Head over to https://www.multitudeshows.com/ads [https://www.multitudeshows.com/ads]  * As supporters of my Patreon [http://patreon.com/AmericanMedieval] know, I’m a big fan of cocktails. That’s why I’m happy to tell you about Shaker and Spoon [http://shakerandspoon.com]. Shaker and Spoon is a subscription cocktail experience kit, each box including 3 original recipes from award-winning bartenders, with enough ingredients for 12 (or more) drinks. Well, except the alcohol – or non-alcohol, because everything is adaptable to zero-proof. If you’ve ever been interested in trying cocktails but didn’ t know how to start, Shaker and Spoon is great because it teaches you how to shake, stir, build flavors, and garnish. You’ll learn about bitters, syrups, and aromatics with handy recipe cards and notes on how to start thinking like a mixologist. Start now and get 10%. Just head over to shakerandspoon.com [http://shakerandspoon.com] and use the code “AMM” at checkout to get 10% off. You’ll be “drinking with historians” in no time. * American Medieval [http://americanmedieval.com] is delighted to be partnering with Roundtable, at the 92nd street Y, in New York City, to offer a brand new online course – “The Medieval European Mind, in History and Literature.” The course will be entirely online and run for 4 sessions over 4 weeks, beginning on Thursday July 9. Live class sessions on Zoom will be from 2-3pm, but all sessions will be recorded. Each week, we’ll together think with an iconic medieval text, to talk about some aspect of the medieval - from the monsters of BEOWULF, to the monsters of the crusaders in Usama ibn Munqidh, to courtly love and King Arthur in Marie de France and SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.  And if that isn’t exciting enough, if you sign up now, you can get 30% off the registration price. Just head to roundtable.org [https://roundtable.org/live-courses/history/the-medieval-european-mind-encounters-with-history-and-literature] and enter the code “MEDIEVAL30” at checkout. Do it quick as space is limited. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Future Medievalisms with Matthew X. Vernon

It’s the Matthew and Matthew show! In this episode, we talk about frictions - about how art can help us think differently about the Middle Ages, as well as our own futures. Plus we talk about Doritos. Guest Matthew Vernon is a medievalist at UC Davis. He’s the author of The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages, and if you want a peek into his new work, check out  his podcast co-hosted by Stacey Baran Fear of the Dark [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fear-of-the-dark/id1818401648], available on all your favorite podcatchers. Credits * Host & Executive Producer: Matthew Gabriele. Find him on Bluesky @profgabriele.com [https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com]or his homepage profgabriele.com [http://profgabriele.com]  * Editor: Julia Schifini [https://www.juliaschifini.com/] * Music: “Sleeping Bags” by OTE * Art: Ulysses Gabriele [http://luckyfriendship.online] * Multitude: https://multitude.productions [https://multitude.productions]  Find American Medieval Online * Website: AmericanMedieval.com [http://americanmedieval.com]  * Patreon: patreon.com/AmericanMedieval [http://patreon.com/AmericanMedieval]  * Insta: instagram.com/americanmedieval [https://instagram.com/americanmedieval]  * TikTok: tiktok.com/@americanmedieval [https://www.tiktok.com/@americanmedieval]  * YouTube: youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval [https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanMedieval]  * Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/americanmedieval.bsky.social]  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. Want to become a sponsor of American Medieval? Head over to https://multitude.productions/ads [https://multitude.productions/ads] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].