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Podcast: New Books in Medieval History
Episode: Miri Rubin, "Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Description: Today we speak to Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London about her 2020 Cambridge University Press publication, Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe (Cambridge UP, 2020)Professor Rubin is the author of many books, among them Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture, Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews, and Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary.Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the...