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New Books in Medieval History
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Anna McSweeney, "From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola" (Kettler Verlag, 2020)
50 mins; December 21, 2021
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
63 hours 8 mins; December 17, 2021
Hassan Abbas, "The Prophet's Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib" (Yale UP, 2021)
54 mins; December 15, 2021
Janna Coomans, "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
45 mins; December 15, 2021
A Conversation with Anne F. Harris, Medieval Art Historian and President of Grinnell College
42 mins; December 01, 2021
A Conversation with Anne F. Harris, Medieval Art Historian and President of Grinnell College
42 mins; December 01, 2021
Shao-yun Yang, "The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China" (U Washington Press, 2019)
100 hours 24 mins; November 30, 2021
Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
55 mins; November 26, 2021
Crawford Gribben, "The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
40 mins; November 23, 2021
Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
85 hours 54 mins; November 22, 2021
Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)
56 mins; November 18, 2021
Daniel C. Matt, "The Zohar" (Stanford UP, 2018)
60 hours 29 mins; November 17, 2021
Quentin Skinner, “Quest for Freedom” (Open Agenda, 2021)
101 hours 39 mins; November 05, 2021
Teofilo Ruiz, “The Consolations of History” (Open Agenda, 2021)
146 hours 46 mins; October 26, 2021
Miri Rubin, “Religion and Culture: A Historian’s Tale” (Open Agenda, 2021)
146 hours 2 mins; October 25, 2021
Jay Rubenstein, “Apocalypse Then: The First Crusade” (Open Agenda, 2021)
113 hours 1 min; October 22, 2021
Sam Wineburg, "Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
58 mins; October 21, 2021
David J. Mozina, "Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
67 hours 52 mins; October 18, 2021
Elizabeth Boyle, "History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
43 mins; October 13, 2021
Richard J. A. McGregor, "Islam and the Devotional Object" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
65 hours 8 mins; October 08, 2021
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
65 hours 35 mins; October 07, 2021
Joshua S. Mostow and Tokurō Yamamoto, "An Ise monogatari Reader: Contexts and Receptions" (Brill, 2021)
46 mins; October 04, 2021
John Nemec, "The Ubiquitous Siva: Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Philosophical Interlocutors" (Oxford UP, 2021)
39 mins; October 01, 2021
Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
83 hours 13 mins; October 01, 2021
Angeliki Lymberopoulou, "Cross-cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669" (Routledge, 2020)
53 mins; September 20, 2021
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
54 mins; September 15, 2021
Charles Tieszen, "The Christian Encounter with Muhammad: How Theologians Have Interpreted the Prophet" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
66 hours 59 mins; September 10, 2021
James D. Reich, "To Savor the Meaning: The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2021)
37 mins; September 09, 2021
Jagjeet Lally, "India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
36 mins; August 26, 2021
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; August 16, 2021
David Potter, "Disruption: Why Things Change" (Oxford UP, 2021)
57 mins; August 12, 2021
Jill P. Ingram, "Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
62 hours 24 mins; August 06, 2021
Heather N. Keaney, "'Uthman ibn 'Affan" (Oneworld Academic, 2020)
66 hours 15 mins; August 06, 2021
James E. Lindsay and Suleiman Mourad, "Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology" (Hackett, 2021)
60 hours 57 mins; August 04, 2021
Kathryn Smithies, "Introducing the Medieval Ass" (U of Wales Press, 2020)
39 mins; August 04, 2021
Ryan J. Lynch, "Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh Al-Buldan of Al-Baladhuri" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
71 hours 59 mins; July 28, 2021
Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
62 hours 57 mins; July 26, 2021
Amy Kaufman and Paul Sturtevant, "Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
64 hours 5 mins; July 23, 2021
Young Richard Kim, "The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
54 mins; July 08, 2021
Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
59 mins; July 02, 2021
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Hachette, 2021)
54 mins; July 01, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
65 hours 21 mins; June 29, 2021
April D. Hughes, "Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
44 mins; June 25, 2021
Jamie Kreiner, "Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West" (Yale UP, 2020)
55 mins; June 24, 2021
Jonathon D. Beeke, "Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology" (Brill, 2020)
34 mins; June 22, 2021
Stephen Murray, "Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral" (Columbia UP, 2020)
31 mins; June 22, 2021
Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
64 hours 38 mins; June 18, 2021
Hannah Barker, "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
54 mins; May 12, 2021
Brenda Beck, "Land of the Golden River: The Medieval Tamil Folk Epic of Poṉṉivaḷa Nāḍu" (Friesen Press, 2021)
44 mins; April 30, 2021
Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
66 hours 3 mins; March 31, 2021
Sara Ritchey, "Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health" (Cornell UP, 2021)
59 mins; March 29, 2021
Lokesh Ohri, "Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya" (SUNY Press, 2021)
37 mins; March 23, 2021
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
63 hours 10 mins; March 22, 2021
Erin L. Brightwell, "Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre" (Harvard UP, 2020)
52 mins; March 16, 2021
Roy Flechner, "Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint" (Princeton UP, 2019)
49 mins; March 15, 2021
Brian Cummings et al., "Memory and the English Reformation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
48 mins; March 10, 2021
Richard Kalmin, "Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context" (U California Press, 2014)
49 mins; March 05, 2021
Ethan Pollock, "Without the Banya We Would Perish" (Oxford UP, 2019)
68 hours 35 mins; March 03, 2021
Charles Hirschkind, "The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
87 hours 45 mins; February 12, 2021
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, "A Fourth-Century Daoist Family: The Zhen’gao, or Declarations of the Perfected, Volume 1" (U California Press, 2020)
48 mins; February 01, 2021
Michael D. Bailey, "Origins of the Witches' Sabbath" (Penn State UP, 2021)
49 mins; January 27, 2021
Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue" (Princeton UP, 2020)
77 hours 25 mins; January 05, 2021
Miri Rubin, "Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
46 mins; December 23, 2020
Priya Satia, "Time's Monster: How History Makes History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
71 hours 33 mins; December 17, 2020
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
31 mins; December 15, 2020
Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600" (Springer, 2019)
48 mins; December 15, 2020
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages: A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
68 hours 5 mins; December 15, 2020
Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" (Hurst, 2020)
37 mins; December 03, 2020
Dale Kedwards, "The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland" (D. S. Brewer, 2020)
66 hours 56 mins; November 23, 2020
John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today" (Princeton UP, 2019)
54 mins; November 06, 2020
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian 'Mediterranean'" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
81 hours 58 mins; November 03, 2020
Alexander Lee, "Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
103 hours 16 mins; November 02, 2020
Martyn Rady, "The Habsburgs: To Rule the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
60 hours 14 mins; October 20, 2020
M. R. Jackson Bonner, "The Last Empire of Iran" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
70 hours 50 mins; August 26, 2020
Jared Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
76 hours 33 mins; August 19, 2020
Alyssa Gabbay, "Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam" (I.B. Tauris, 2020)
66 hours 57 mins; August 07, 2020
Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
50 mins; July 10, 2020
Jeremy Black, "Mapping Shakespeare: An Exploration of Shakespeare’s World through Maps" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
36 mins; July 03, 2020
Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Classics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
76 hours 41 mins; July 02, 2020
Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
63 hours 3 mins; June 12, 2020
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, "Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
59 mins; June 11, 2020
Richard McBride II, "Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism: The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn" (U Hawaii Press, 2016)
69 hours 51 mins; May 12, 2020
Magda Teter, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth" (Harvard UP, 2020)
66 hours 36 mins; April 23, 2020
Elizabeth A. Cecil, "Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape" (Brill, 2020)
44 mins; April 22, 2020
Kevin O'Connor, "The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga" (NIUP, 2019)
62 hours 33 mins; April 01, 2020
Adrian J. Boas, "The Crusader World" (Routledge, 2015)
47 mins; March 25, 2020
Jane D. Hatter, "Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; December 23, 2019
K. B. Berzock, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa" (Princeton UP, 2019)
69 hours 27 mins; December 23, 2019
Fran Altvater, "Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts" (Cambridge Scholars, 2017)
33 mins; December 13, 2019
Winston Black, "The Middle Ages: Facts and Fictions" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
69 hours 58 mins; December 10, 2019
Eleanor Parker, "Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
22 mins; December 05, 2019
Christine D. Baker, "Medieval Islamic Sectarianism" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
54 mins; November 29, 2019
Sebastian Prange, "Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
54 mins; November 27, 2019
Donald Ostrowski, "Europe, Byzantium, and the 'Intellectual Silence' of Rus’ Culture" (Arc Humanities Press, 2018)
79 hours 20 mins; November 06, 2019
Joseph F. O'Callaghan, "Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age" (Cornell UP, 2019)
58 mins; November 01, 2019
Dan Jones, "Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands" (Viking, 2019)
40 mins; October 29, 2019
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
67 hours 55 mins; September 20, 2019
Shayne Legassie, "The Medieval Invention of Travel" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
40 mins; September 06, 2019
Michael Lower, "The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Mediterranean History" (Oxford UP, 2018)
65 hours 27 mins; August 12, 2019
Robert Haug, "The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia" (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
60 hours 21 mins; August 08, 2019
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