IHSHG Podcast
IHSHG Podcast
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​Join us every month for thought-provoking and educational discussions with international experts in various fields of history. Our talks feature innovative ideas and perspectives, and provide a space for exchange and exploration. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the world of history and connect with like-minded individuals. Watch our recorded talks on YouTube to deepen your understanding and appreciation for the past.
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Painting Heaven and Hell in the Wake of PlagueMural painting in Navarrese parish churches after 1348
15 December 2024

Painting Heaven and Hell in the Wake of PlagueMural painting in Navarrese parish churches after 1348

Eneko is an early career scholar in the University of the Basque Country, department of Art History. He did my Ph.D. in a cotutel program between the University of Nevada and the University of the Basque Country. His dissertation titled, ‘Painting Heaven and Hell in the Wake of the Plague. A contribution to the Study of Parish Church Wall Paintings in the Kingdom of Navarre between 1348 and...
Pandemic Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales and the Second Plague Pandemic
27 November 2024

Pandemic Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales and the Second Plague Pandemic

Lorenz Hindrichsen is a historian/cultural critic working primarily on anglophone texts (Chaucer to the Romantics) with a wide range of interests: colonial discourse, gender, visual arts, scientific writing, and travel accounts. He loves exploring new theory (CRT, temporality, spatiality, materiality, trauma theory, eco-criticism, affective turn), and he is currently working on pandemic...
Gender, Symbolic Blackness and Demons in early Christian Hagiography from the Greek East
26 September 2024

Gender, Symbolic Blackness and Demons in early Christian Hagiography from the Greek East

Gender, Symbolic Blackness and Demons in early Christian Hagiography from the Greek East.
Ambiguity of urban hospitality in the Norwegian realm
18 September 2024

Ambiguity of urban hospitality in the Norwegian realm

Miriam Jensen Tveit (born 1979 in Oslo) is a Norwegian historian at Nord University in Bodø.She has her Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Sciences from the University of Tromsø in 2017, with the thesis In Search of Legal Transmission – Inheritance and Compensation for Homicide in Medieval Secular Law.[1]Tveit has particularly worked on topics such as legal history in the early Middle Ages with...
Healing Miracles and Disability in Late Medieval Tuscany
12 September 2024

Healing Miracles and Disability in Late Medieval Tuscany

Dr Alex Lee works on religious responses to plague in medieval Europe. She is currently a lecturer in Liberal Studies at New York University, London. Alex's book on the Bianchi of 1399 was published in 2021 with Brill, and she has published articles and chapters on plague and religion, as well as teaching with Twitter. She is currently editing a volume on disability in Higher Education based on...
Experiencing Climate change in the Middle Ages
19 July 2024

Experiencing Climate change in the Middle Ages

Andrew Moore successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Manorial Regulation and Negotiation in a Late Medieval Environment: Land and Community at Herstmonceux, 1308-1440,” on 17 November 2021. His dissertation examines the role that environment played in the negotiation of rights and responsibilities on a fundamental socioeconomic institution of rural communities in late medieval England — the manor....
Male Homosexuality in The Galician-Portuguese Cantigas de Escárnio e Maldizer
03 April 2024

Male Homosexuality in The Galician-Portuguese Cantigas de Escárnio e Maldizer

Aleksandra UrbaniakLecturer at the Adam Mickiewics University, PoznánCOURSES COORDINATED2022/SZ - Literature and culture of Italy I (Middle Ages) 09-LKW1k-1LW-162023/SL - Litarature and culture of Italy: Baroque, Classicism, Enlightenment 09-LKW4k-4LW-462023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura Włoch - średniowiecze 09-LKWŚ-1LW-SNJL-112023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura włoska -...
História Global da Alimentação
07 March 2024

História Global da Alimentação

À Conversa com Isabel Drumond BragaProfessora auxiliar com agregação da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, na área de História, onde leciona desde 1990.Tem desenvolvido investigação e lecionado nas áreas de História Social, História de Género, História Cultural e História das Práticas do Quotidiano, em especial História da Alimentação, das épocas Moderna e Contemporânea.Membro de...
How to make a ring jump in the manner of a locust
17 February 2024

How to make a ring jump in the manner of a locust

Vanessa’s research explores the medieval understanding and appreciation of magic tricks, particularly sleight-of-hand and chemical tricks, preserved in medieval manuscript recipe collections as a form of domestic play and popular science, meaning a general rather than specialist engagement with science and scientific principles, in the Middle Ages. As both material chemical practices and...
After 1177: The Survival of Civilization
24 December 2023

After 1177: The Survival of Civilization

Dr. Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the current Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute. He is a National Geographic Explorer, a Fulbright scholar, an NEH Public Scholar, a Getty Scholar, and an award-winning teacher and author....