New episode of #AskAMedievalist is up! We talk about where the conclave system of picking a pope originated and a lot of other historical pope stuff. Hopefully most of it builds on the last episode instead of repeats it.
http://askamedievalist.com/2025/06/11/episode-93-take-me-down-to-vatican-city/
New Emergency Popecast about Francis's death, Saint Francis, conclave (the event), and Conclave (the movie).
http://askamedievalist.com/2025/04/29/episode-92-emergency-popecast/
New #AskAMedievalist episode tonight after I get the kids to bed! Be excited!
New episode of #AskAMedievalist up this morning: http://askamedievalist.com/2025/04/19/episode-91-the-field-where-i-grow-my-ducks/
Part two of our look at #medieval memes. Get it wherever fine #podcasts are downloaded.
This week, on #AskAMedievalist: Meme review!
We talk about Edward, Duke of York's list of 1100 dog names and the regulation of spelling. (It's way funnier than this makes it sound.)
http://askamedievalist.com/2025/04/04/episode-90-ask-a-memevalist/
Ask a Medievalist is back from hiatus with a new episode on the three hares! Find it at the link below or on your favorite podcast app.
http://askamedievalist.com/2025/03/21/episode-89-the-three-hares-on-the-silk-road/
On the new episode of #askAMedievalist, I interviewed Sebastian Nothwell about his experiences writing historical/historical fantasy novels. Then we talked about the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 and its significance in the 1840s.
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/12/22/episode-88-the-peasants-are-still-revolting/
New #askAMedievalist episode on persecution and resistance, from RI Moore to JP Sartre, and from Hrotsvit to Jack Cade. Find it at the link or wherever you get your podcasts!
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/12/13/episode-87-resistance-is-not-futile/
If you need a good podcast for a long Thanksgiving drive, #AskAMedievalist has a new episode out on the Ramayana, a story dating from the 700s BCE that has traveled extensively. We discuss the different versions, from Sanskrit to Tamil to Thai to English, and what translating between disparate cultures and times really means.
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/11/26/episode-86-too-many-ramayanas/
This week on #AskAMedievalist, we're reposting our episode on dogs in honor of Dr. Jesse's late doggo, Wrigley Njus-Kirk, who died this week at the age of 15 and a half.
Back with a regular episode next week!
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/11/19/rebroadcast-episode-29-dyou-like-dags/
New episode up on #AskAMedievalist today about the time I got drunk at a wedding and started texting Jesse about the Bronze Age Collapse. As one does.
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/11/01/episode-85-its-not-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/
New episode of #askAMedievalist on MENA and Trans-Saharan trade!
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/10/22/episode-84-trans-saharan-trade/
New episode of Ask a Medievalist is out: Old Silk Road, Take Me Home.
Seriously, the Silk Road covered 4,000 miles and lasted over 15 centuries. Is there anything else that even comes close?
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/09/19/old-silk-road-take-me-home/
Occasionally I get emails this this from some random pocasting service. Our last few episodes peaked at 131 on the Slovenian history charts. I always think that means someone we know was listening in Slovenia or something. Like 131, that's gotta mean we got like one listener.
(Also, they never send the peak chart position, just the "you slipped" position.)
We have a new podcast episode that asks how did we get from angels with four faces and a multitude of eyes to Fra' Angelico's annunciation and what does Winged Victory have to do with it, and also what's up with all these apples in Mediterranean myth anyway?
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/08/15/episode-81-angel-of-the-morning/
You know things have gotten controversial when we have to weigh in with an emergency podcast about the Olympics opening ceremony. Spoiler alert: Dr. Jesse had a lot of thoughts.
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/07/31/episode-80-emergency-olympics-episode/
I forgot to mention, Dr. Jesse is back from teaching abroad and we have new episodes coming out again over at #askAMedievalist. This week's is about the first two branches of the Mabinogion. If you read Old Time Religion and were like, "Wait, who's Arawn?" We talk about him a little bit here. And if you didn't read OTR, the stories are just pretty fantastic in their own rights.
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/07/11/episode-79-branching-out/
New Ask a Medievalist episode on the Mabinogion, which features in Old Time Religion by E H Lupton!
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/05/03/episode-78-ma-ma-ma-mabinogi/
#AskAMedievalist #histodon #Medievaldon #history #mabinogion #mythology
Somewhat belatedly, there's a new #AskAMedievalist episode out about carnival, the Shrovetide season, pancake Tuesday, and Mardi Gras, with brief reference to the Hellboy pancakes comic. Or: in which we try to explain why some places celebrate Lent with nudity, feathers, and beads, and some places celebrate with pancakes.
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/04/07/episode-77-carnival-and-lent/
New Ask a Medievalist episode on plumbing is up! We talk about the Dujiangyan (an irrigation system in Sichuan), the plumbing of Tenochtitlan, water management at Machu Picchu, and more (i.e., perfume).
http://askamedievalist.com/2024/03/09/episode-76-pipe-dreams/
