Ophira Gamliel on Malabar Jews
March 3, 2024
It is with a sense of discomfort that I write about my new book, as the shadows of unspeakable violence are cast over my homeland Israel/Palestine. The book deals with… READ MORE
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Thinking about the medieval state from a Moroccan perspective: Writing The Almoravid Maghrib
February 16, 2024
Was there a Golden Age? A set of persistent questions propelled the writing of this book since before its inception. As a student I read widely through the history and… READ MORE
Essays About the Humanizing Experiences that Have Changed Museums from Within and Without
January 5, 2024
Museums have long been viewed as exclusive, excluding, and as antiseptic to intimacy. Yet the intrusion of humanized experiences into museum spaces has revised this historical vision in the past few… READ MORE
Q&A on The Medieval Persian Gulf with Brian Ulrich
December 13, 2023
Why did you decide to write this book? I decided to write this book because it didn’t exist. In a sense that might be part of why all books get… READ MORE
New translation into English by William Thomas Little of Cervantes’ The Perils of Persiles and Sigismunda, a Northern Saga
December 5, 2023
Virtually ignored for the past four hundred years and overshadowed by the acclaim accorded Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s final and posthumous novel of 1617, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia… READ MORE
Writing about the Merovingians in the Early United States
September 11, 2023
Q. Can you summarize what your book is about? What are its findings? The book is a study of Early American impressions, retellings, and appropriations of Merovingian history between 1776 and… READ MORE
Heather Tanner on Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne 1160-1260
July 10, 2023
If you go by Lena Dunham’s Birdy and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s The Last Duel, most folks view the medieval woman as a poster child of oppression– forced to marry at a very… READ MORE
Team Management
May 30, 2023
Lauren Mancia on Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery
May 23, 2023
I recently held my last class for a Medieval Christianity course at Brooklyn College. For our final session, we reflected as a group on medieval Christianity’s uses and misuses since… READ MORE
Q&A with Rory Critten on French Lessons in Late-Medieval England
April 12, 2023
Q. What got you interested in French teaching in medieval England? Before I started working on the history of French teaching, most of my work had dealt with medieval English literature. I… READ MORE