Future Medievalisms with Matthew X. Vernon

Opera and Medievalism with Hannah Weaver

Matt and Hannah talk opera and how it uses the Middle Ages, because there is A LOT of medievalism in opera - far beyond the stereotypes we have in our head about Wagner. There’s something in the water that helps us think not just about the medieval world, but our own. Take that Chalamet.  Guest Hannah Weaver is an assistant professor of medieval literature at Columbia University. She's the author of a wide variety of articles and the book Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell 2024) and co-host of the podcast Proust Curious [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/proust-curious/id1764330975], in partnership with Public Books. 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 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 Techno-Optimism with Jennifer Jahner

This episode we talk about Roger Bacon, maybe not perfect for Instagram but not far off. There’s some medieval science (and using data to understand the medieval world), some alchemy, and some antichrist. Peter Thiel even gets a mention, but only briefly.  Guest Jennifer Jahner is a Professor of English at Caltech, where she has worked since 2012. Trained in literature, she has migrated over time into histories of law, science, and rhetoric. Her current research examines the prehistory of “data science,” asking how medieval thinkers organized and aggregated large amounts of information and made inferences about the future. Find her on Instagram at jajahner.  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].

The 100 (200?) Years War with Michael Livingston

Michael and Matt talk about wars between England and France. There were a lot of them, or maybe there was just one. Plus we talk about humility in doing the work of history and how telling stories is really good for making people understand things.  Guest Michael Livingston [https://www.michaellivingston.com/], PhD, FRHistS, Col (UMSC), is an award-winning historian and author who frequently lectures on military history and hosts documentaries. A former Secretary-General for the United States Commission on Military History, he serves as Citadel Distinguished Professor at The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina. His latest book was published last year: ‘Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War’ in the US; ‘The Two Hundred Years War: The Bloody Crowns of England and France, 1292-1492’. 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].

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].