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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast

The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast

By: Will Beattie Jonathan Correa Reyes Loren Lee Reed O'Mara & Logan Quigley
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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast brings together medievalists from all professional and disciplinary tracks to think and talk about the diversity of the Middle Ages. We offer public-facing, open access content directed at experts and non-experts alike to present updated, accurate, and culturally responsible accounts of the plurality of the medieval period.

Series producers: Will Beattie, Jonathan F. Correa Reyes, Loren Easterday Lee Cantrell, Reed O'Mara, and Logan Quigley.

Our podcast is made possible by our partnership with the Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America. Our Speculum Spotlight series is produced in partnership with Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.

For more information about The Multicultural Middle Ages, visit our website:

https://www.multiculturalmiddleages.com.

Will Beattie, Jonathan Correa Reyes, Loren Lee, Reed O'Mara, & Logan Quigley 2025 Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • Uncovering the Forgotten Frescoes of Medieval Bohemia

    Uncovering the Forgotten Frescoes of Medieval Bohemia
    Oct 25 2025

    The colorful and monumental 14th-century frescoes of Bohemian church interiors have received very little scholarly attention, and many remain completely unknown today. Yet the wall paintings have played major roles in the creation of national(ist) art historical narratives, and they offer a rare chance to examine how medieval frescoes operated within their original architectural contexts. In this episode, Reed O'Mara speaks with art historian Isabelle Chisholm on these frescoes’ long lives, discussing their medieval viewership and the reasons for their relative obscurity.

    For more information, visit www.multiculturalmiddleages.com.
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    53 mins
  • Speculum Spotlight: East–West Encounters in the 14th Century: John of Marignolli and the "Tribute" Horse

    Speculum Spotlight: East–West Encounters in the 14th Century: John of Marignolli and the "Tribute" Horse
    Oct 1 2025

    In this episode, MMA podcast producer Loren Cantrell chats with Nancy Wu about her article, "East–West Encounters in the Fourteenth Century: John of Marignolli and the 'Tribute' Horse" (Speculum 100:4).

    For more information, visit www.multiculturalmiddleages.com.
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    46 mins
  • Meeting the Ministeriales

    Meeting the Ministeriales
    Aug 25 2025

    In this episode, Logan Quigley (MMA team member) chats with scholar Aaron C. Pattee about the roles and realities of the medieval ministeriales—non-nobles who served in a variety of capacities within the royal palaces, the imperial estates, and the entourages of emperors, kings, and bishops during the High Middle Ages in the Holy Roman Empire.

    For more information, visit www.multiculturalmiddleages.com.

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    42 mins
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