March 18, 2021
1. What is the main argument presented in your book? Readers may be familiar the Liberation Theology that came out of places like Peru, Mexico, Chile and Argentina during the… READ MORE
March 1, 2021
This post is intended to give some intellectual and experiential background to this book, Animism, Materiality, and Museums: How Do Byzantine Things Feel?, which was published earlier this month (it… READ MORE
Denise Y. Arnold is an Anglo-Bolivian anthropologist who divides her time researching, teaching and writing between La Paz and London. She first arrived in Bolivia in 1984 as a young… READ MORE
February 19, 2021
Two of our titles have been short-listed for a Laura Shannon Prize, which the Nanovic Institute for European Studies administers at Notre Dame. Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power: Matilda Plantagenet… READ MORE
December 18, 2020
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August 14, 2020
What is it the St. Thomas Way? The St. Thomas Way (www.thomasway.ac.uk) is a new heritage route from Swansea to Hereford, inspired by a real medieval pilgrimage. In 1290, a… READ MORE
June 19, 2020
I teach history at New Mexico Tech, located in Socorro, NM. This is a great science and engineering school, and I enjoy teaching intelligent and hard-working students there. Overall, I… READ MORE
April 5, 2020
Which part of your research on the daughters of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine was particularly exciting? Answer: It is always amazing to actually hold the… READ MORE
March 30, 2020
Have you ever wondered how globally connected the pre-modern world was? Have you ever asked yourself what happened in the medieval period outside of Europe and the Mediterranean? Do early… READ MORE
February 11, 2020
In the tenth century Middle East, a remarkable thing happened: two Shi’i states took over the greater part of the Muslim world. First, the Fatimids, who began as an underground… READ MORE