The Multicultural Middle Ages

by Will Beattie, Jonathan Correa-Reyes, Reed O'Mara, and Logan Quigley

The Multicultural Middle Ages is a podcast where medievalists from all professional and disciplinary tracks can come together to think and talk about the oft-unsung reality of the Middle Ages as a diverse historical and cultural period. We offer public-facing, open access content directed at experts and non-experts alike to offer updated, accurate, and culturally responsible accounts of the plurality of the medieval period. Thi... Read more
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Podcast episodes

  • Season 2

  • S02 E02 - Women, Books, & Pregnancy in Medieval France

    S02 E02 - Women, Books, & Pregnancy in Medieval France

    Although much scholarship on the Middle Ages uses the model of “great men” to describe this time period, “Women, Books, and Pregnancy in Medieval France” focuses on the Christian patron saint of childbirth St. Margaret to promote ...

    39:44

  • S02 E01 - Medieval Jewish Women & Intersectionality

    S02 E01 - Medieval Jewish Women & Intersectionality

    Why does studying medieval Jewish women matter? The framework of intersectionality, a term coined by the scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, allows us to address how Jewish women’s lived experiences in the Middle Ages differed from those o...

    39:06

  • Season 1

  • S01 E06 - Reading Chaucer in Mandarin: How Do We Teach the Global Middle Ages Outside the West?

    S01 E06 - Reading Chaucer in Mandarin: How Do We Teach the Global Middle Ages Outside the West?

    As medieval scholarship attempts to decenter the West and move towards a global and multicultural approach, we frequently ask: how do we mimic this move in the classroom? Most often, however, this question and its suggested soluti...

    39:34

  • S01 E05 - Teaching the "Global Middle Ages"

    S01 E05 - Teaching the "Global Middle Ages"

    In this episode, join Reed O'Mara (GSC) as she interviews Elina Gertsman (Case Western Reserve University) and Sonya Rhie Mace (Cleveland Museum of Art) about their experiences co-teaching undergraduate- and graduate-level courses...

    19:02

  • S01 E04 - Mysteries & Miracles: Representations of a Miracle Story from a Dismembered Fifteenth-Century Venetian Choir Book

    S01 E04 - Mysteries & Miracles: Representations of a Miracle Story from a Dismembered Fifteenth-Century Venetian Choir Book

    In this podcast, Dr. Stephanie Azzarello explores several miracle legends depicted in images that have been excised from a series of early fifteenth-century Venetian choir books. The legends include the so-called “Beirut Miracle,”...

    45:35