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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchMeeting 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.
Recent episodes include "35: Adventures in Bernard's Affective Mysticism with Dr. Macie Sweet" (31 July 2026, 39 minutes), "34: Bringing the Medieval to Mississippi: Teaching Medieval Literature in the American South with Dr. Anne Crafton" (1 June 2026, 34 minutes), and "33: Written in Copper: Charters, Kinship, and Medieval South Asia with Dr. Mekhola Gomes" (1 May 2026, 39 minutes).
Meeting in the Middle Ages publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 36 episodes.
Booking probability for Meeting in the Middle Ages is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Meeting in the Middle Ages requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Meeting in the Middle Ages's contact route on record: verified email.
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Meeting in the Middle Ages is a history show with 36 episodes published.
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Episode #35
Tired of the endless onslaught of addictive short form content on your social media feeds? Join us this month as we rediscover the simple power of our senses through the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux with Dr. Macie...
Episode #34
<p>This month, Dr. Anne Elise Crafton returns to the podcast to update us on their first year as the Professor of Early Literature and Linguistics at Mississippi University for Women. We discuss how medieval studies...
Episode #33
<p>This month, we chat with Dr. Mekhola Gomes, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College, about copper plate land grants, kinship, and what it means to study the Middle Ages...
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<p>What happens to an ancient priesthood when the balance of power changes? This month, we’re joined by Dr. Kayla Dang, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Saint Louis University, to uncover the dramatic...
Episode #31
<p>This month, we speak with Dr. Manolis Ulbricht, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Ulbricht has been tracing the transmission of Greek translations of the...
Episode #30
<p>In this episode, we talk with Dr. Linda G. Jones of Pompeu Fabra University about Muslim women as preachers and religious authorities in the medieval Islamic world. Drawing on biographical dictionaries and...
Episode #29
<p>If you've ever written a letter, you probably weren't thinking about who might be reading it hundreds of years in the future. You definitely weren't thinking about its historical accuracy. But in his latest book...
Episode #28
<p>Teresa of Avila was a mystic, philosopher, poet, reformer, and more. How does a translator bridge a 500 year gap to bring her poetry to life in the 21st century? How do educators foster "hunger for something...
Episode #27
<p>We think of monks as living peaceful lives, separated from the chaos of daily life, but throughout modern Turkey stand the remains of medieval fortress monasteries, used as both houses of worship and refuge in time...
Episode #26
<p>Everything is bigger in Texas, even the universities. But what is it like teaching medieval intellectual history at one of the largest public research institutions in the US? This week, we speak with Dr. Cary...
Episode #25
<p>In medieval Europe, the Church held enormous political and economic power. How did critics point out the flaws of such a dominant institution? And why would writing a letter in the voice of the devil be a good...
Episode #24
<p>We've all heard about nationalism and patriotism, but what exactly is the difference? Where did these ideas come from? This week, we talk with Dr. Takashi Shogimen, Professor of History at the University of Otago in...
Episode #23
<p>This week, we're sitting down with Dr. Julia Schneider, Subject Specialist Librarian for Medieval Studies in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Schneider wears a lot of hats and is also the...
Episode #22
<p>This week, we're talking with Dr. Anne Le, current Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Notre Dame's Medieval Institute. During her time at the Medieval Institute, she's been working on several projects to...
Episode #21
<p>This week, we're sitting down with the editors of the Medieval Studies Research Blog. For ten years, this blog, sponsored by the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame, has been a platform for sharing...
Episode #20
<p>This month we speak with Dr. Richard Fahey, manager of the Medieval Studies Research Blog and managing book review editor for Religion and Literature, about his recent scholarship on the Old English epic Beowulf. We...
Episode #19
<p>This episode we're sitting down with Dr. Leonora Neville, John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair of Byzantine History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We explore the life and legacy of the medieval Greek historian...
Episode #18
<p>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...
Episode #17
<p>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...
Episode #16
<p>To kick off the new academic year, we are releasing this conversation with Dr. Dov Honick, recent alumnus of the Medieval Institute. We muse about the broader field of Medieval Studies, discuss Dov's path from...
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