Meeting in the Middle Ages is the Medieval Institute of Notre Dame's podcast. Our goal is to answer the questions "what do medievalists do, and how do they do it?" Episodes—a new one each month—are built around informal conversations between our hosts, Ben and Will, and medievalist scholars and graduate students. We discuss how they became medievalists, what led them to their current research, the resources they use, and how they use them.
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...
Published 11/15/24
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...
Published 10/26/24