CEU Medieval Radio

06/07/2024

Dear Listeners, the new episode of Past Perfect is out!
This time we are truly delighted to bring you our conversation with Peter Brown, the intellectual giant of Late Antique Studies. On the occasion of publishing his memoir Journeys of the Mind (Princeton University Press 2023), Ivan Milekovic and Volker Menze asked him about historian's work: How to write history? How important are languages and personal travel? What should be the role of Art History and Anthropology in historical studies? https://youtu.be/khLtuAgQux4

Image: The Barberini Ivory, Louvre Museum

29/06/2024

Dear Listeners,

The new episode of Past Perfect is out! Earlier this spring we sat down to talk with Jakub Razim from Palacký University Olomouc. We ask him about medieval legal processes and customs and his most recent research project concerning ecclesiastical courts in 14th-century Bohemia. Listen to our conversation here: https://youtu.be/6Hg7Yp4Y_f8

image: illumination in a manuscript of Gratian's Decretum, opening causa 3: Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. 75, fo. 90r.

12/03/2024

Another archival episode of Past Perfect is availible on our YouTube page! In a conversation recorded in 2015, Chris Mielke talks with Francesco Dall'Aglio about Bulgarian medieval history, Byzantine aristocracy and the crusades, as well as the Cumans as military allies and enemies:

In this archival episode of Past Perfect from 2015, Chris Mielke talks with Francesco Dall'Aglio about Bulgarian medieval history, Byzantine aristocracy and ...

19/02/2024

Dear Listeners, we are happy to return after a break with a new episode of Past Perfect!
Join us as we sit down with the participants of the Conference "From Ctesiphon to Toledo: A Comparative View on Early Church Councils in East and West" to discuss the most recent advances in the study of this important topic in Early Church History. Among our interviewees are Volker Menze, Claire Fauchon-Claudon, Mark DelCogliano, Sebastian Scholz, Paulo Pachá, Cristian Gaspar, and Sabine Panzram: https://youtu.be/H2jeG59MZFc

Image: Icon from the Mégalo Metéoron Monastery in Greece, representing the First Ecumenical Council of Nikea 325 A.D

15/01/2024

New episode of Past Perfect is out!

This time we are joined by Prof. Tracy Adams, with whom we talk about women's history, queenship, and Isabeau of Bavaria: https://youtu.be/gE3viEGGf8w

Illustration: Detail of a presentation miniature with Christine de Pisan presenting her book to queen Isabeau of Bavaria. Illuminated miniature from The Book of the Queen (various works by Christine de Pizan), BL Harley 4431.

24/12/2023

Dear Listeners,
we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! While preparing for celebrations or already opening your gifts, you can listen to our Christmas special with your close ones: https://youtu.be/MJFHte9D8nQ?si=PpBi3X5IgWSeXDRe

We will return in New Year with new interviews.

Illustration: The Nativity in the St. Albans Psalter, 1130, Dombibliothek Hildesheim.

08/12/2023

Dear listeners!

We are working hard to fix some technical difficulties with our online radio, which might be unavailable for some time on our site and internet players. We are sorry for your inconvenience. In the meantime, we have uploaded another of the archival episodes of Past Perfect! to our YouTube page. It is a conversation on medieval woods and landscapes with environmental historian Péter Szabó: https://youtu.be/FUyVzLC_z60

Image: Guillaume de Machaut, Dit du Lion, Paris 1350-1355 BnF, Français 1586, fol. 103r

21/11/2023

Dear Listeners!
As always, we are happy to share with you the wonderful work of our friends at MECERN. Recently they released a podcast on scribal additions and scribal humour with Charles University's Lucie Doležalová. You can listen to it here: https://podcasts.ceu.edu/content/scribal-additions-scribes-their-humour-and-their-nonsense

Image: Worcester Cathedral Library WCL F136

03/11/2023

Dear listeners!
New episode of Past Perfect is available on our YouTube channel! In this episode, we spoke with Richard Price, leading expert on Late Antique and Early Medieval church councils. We discussed the importance and development of church council studies, the process of translation of the council acts, as well as their social and political dimensions: https://youtu.be/x3y3tqIe_DQ

Image: Council of Ephesus, Mosaic from Notre-Dame de Fourvières in Lyon, Charles Lameire and Georges Décote.

18/10/2023

Dear listeners!

New episode of Past Perfect is available on our YouTube channel! We talk with Jonathan Harris about one of the best-known rulers of the Byzantine Empire - Basil II (858-1025). Basil is not only a subject of academic interest to Professor Harris but also a main character of his debut historical novel, "Theosis", published recently by Trivent Publishing. Listen to the episode: https://youtu.be/5slRhdpvUSw

and visit publisher's website: https://trivent-publishing.eu/home/157-224-theosis.html

Image: Replica of a miniature of Emperor Basil II in triumphal garb, exemplifying the Imperial Crown handed down by Angels. Replica of the Psalter of Basil II (Psalter of Venice), BNM, Ms. gr. 17, fol. 3r

15/09/2023

Apocalypse, political thought, and religious violence. In this archival episode of Past Perfect Anna Kinde talks with Martin Piecha about the Taborite movement of the Hussite Bohemia. You can listen to it on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/q6W-dS1FFaQ

25/08/2023

Dear Listeners!

As always we are happy to bring your attention to the wonderful podcasts produced by our colleagues at MECERN. In their most recent conversation with Jana Gajdosova they discuss architects of medieval cathedrals, like Peter Parler and Lorenz Lechler, as members of truly international networks of professionals. You can listen to it here: https://podcasts.ceu.edu/content/gothic-architect-international-professional-elite

15/08/2023

Dear Listeners!

We continue uploading our old interviews on our new YouTube channel. You can listen there to our chat with Jonathan Cohen, a specialist in early modern music and period instruments, with whom we talked about the challenges of performing early modern music and balancing between historical accuracy and artistic interpretation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7FBs9XiKg

03/08/2023

Dear listeners!

This time we want to take you back in time only a few months. Back in May CEU hosted a conference on the role of the Nation in the Middle Ages. After many days of interesting and sometimes heated debates, we invited some of the conference guests and organizers to join us for a round-table discussion. You can now listen to it on our YouTube channel:

This episode was recorded on the last day of the conference "Community, Identity, Individuals: Shaping the (Political) Nation in Premodern Europe (400-1800)"...

07/07/2023

Dear Listeners! Just in time for a weekend, we are publishing on our YouTube page an archival episode of Past Perfect, in which Christopher Mielke discusses with Dr. Cristian-Nicolae Gaspar the way in which Classical Antiquity is generally perceived, sexuality in ancient times and his translation of one of Saint Adalbert's Vitae: https://youtu.be/ZAG3218pN30

22/06/2023

Dear listeners!

We are continuing to re-publish old episodes of the Past Perfect podcast on our YouTube channel. It's a great opportunity to listen again to our interview on medieval popular literature with Václav Žůrek. Among the medieval bestsellers we discussed is a fascinating treatise by Jacobus de Cessolis on society and the game of chess: https://youtu.be/ui0NsNWvqlU

22/05/2023

Dear Listeners!

As some of you certainly know our friends at MECERN produce their own podcasts in which they interview the scholars of Medieval Central Europe.
Visit their website: https://www.mecern.eu/index.php/podcast/
Or listen to their conversations hosted on CEU Podcast Library, like this episode in which they talk to Emir Filipovic on 14th century Balkans: https://podcasts.ceu.edu/content/conflict-collusion-and-unholy-alliance-diplomatic-relationships-14th-century-balkans

16/05/2023

Dear Listeners!

The new episode of Past Perfect is available on our channel. We sat down with our colleague Juan Manuel Rubio Arevalo, a Ph.D. candidate at CEU's Department of Medieval Studies, to talk about Medievalism, the Crusades, and-most importantly-video games. You can find the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPDGsddPZr0

13/04/2023

Dear Listeners!

In the new episode of Past Perfect Levan Tatishvili from the Agricultural University of Georgia discusses the history of classical rhetoric and its impact on the culture of the Middle Ages. You can check the first part of the interview here: https://youtu.be/TcQf_SFX5wk

21/03/2023

Dear Listeners!
One of the old episodes of Past Perfect has been republished on our YouTube page! In this interview from 2013, you can listen to CEU's Katalin Szende talking about about towns, hospitals and urban population in medieval Hungary. Find it on our chanel: https://youtu.be/Eslh4Zg9jcs

25/02/2023

Dear listeners!

In the new episode of Past Perfect, CEU's Istvan Perczel speaks about his time at the Medieval Studies Department and his intellectual journey spanning from late antique philosophy, Mediterranean studies, through Eastern Christian theology to Christianity in south India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCXxSz75B0o

06/02/2023

Dear listeners!

What do the bridal inventories of Paula Gonzaga (1478) and Bianca Maria Sforza (1493) tell us about their familial relations, lives, and expectations? In the new episode of Past Perfect, Christina Antenhofer casts a new light on the relationships between people and their material possessions in pre-Modern Europe.

You can find the episode on our YouTube channel:

What do the bridal inventories of Paula Gonzaga (1478) and Bianca Maria Sforza (1493) tell us about their familial relations, lives, and expectations? In the...

30/01/2023

Dear Listeners!

You can listen to the archival episode of Past Perfect! with Maarten Prak on our YouTube page. Professor of Social and Economic History at the Department of History and Art History of Utrecht University talks with Karen Culver about the notion of citizenship in urban and national governance of pre-1789 Europe:

We are pleased to offer an interview with Maarten Prak, Professor of Social and Economic History at the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht Univer...

21/01/2023

What is it like to study at CEU's Medieval Studies Department? As the application deadlines for the CEU Master Programs are approaching, we want to encourage those who want to join our wonderful Department of Medieval Studies in Vienna. Thus, we prepared a short podcast in which you can hear us talk with Department Head Daniel Ziemann and alumni Maria Vargha and Tara Merrigan about applying and studying at CEU.
You can listen to the interviews on our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2o7uYg6Waw&t=815s

Learn more about how to apply here: https://medievalstudies.ceu.edu/how-apply-1

CEU Medieval Studies programs: https://medievalstudies.ceu.edu/programsHow to apply: https://medievalstudies.ceu.edu/how-apply-1

13/01/2023

Dear Listeners!

We are back after the winter break! We hope that you enjoyed the holiday season playlist that streamed on our internet radio, and that you caught the re-airing of our Christmas special (you can also find it on our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJFHte9D8nQ )

We are working hard on new episodes of our Past Perfect! series. In the meantime, you can listen to the interview with Nada Zecevic and Daniel Ziemann, co-editors of The ‘Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe 800 – 1600’, recorded by our friends at MECERN: https://podcasts.ceu.edu/content/story-book-how-oxford-handbook-medieval-central-europe-800-1600-was-made

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17/12/2022

Dear listeners!

With the upcoming Christmas season, we want to share with you the special Medieval Musical Christmas episode of our Past Perfect!, which was recorded for that occasion in 2019. You can revisit our exploration of Medieval Gregorian Chant collections from Hungarian sources on our YouTube channel:

09/12/2022

Dear listeners!
The new episode of Past Perfect is out. In this interview Mária Vargha shares with us her new perspective on the Christianization of Central Europe, based on the insights offered by the geospatial analysis of the archeological data and approaches in digital humanities.

You can find the episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQvz4gnofbk

or on our website:
http://ceumedievalradiopodcast.ceu.hu/?name=2022-12-09_past_perfect_with_maria_vargha_9_12_2022.mp3

02/12/2022

Dear Listeners!

Our Radio has a YouTube channel! Right now you can listen there to the latest episodes of Past Perfect. The new episodes of the podcast will be published there along our website, and soon you will be able to find there also recorded material from our Radio's Archives. Stay Tuned!

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25/11/2022

Dear listeners!
The new episode of Past Perfect is a short conversation with Lenka Panušková, in which she talks about the illuminations of Passional of the Abbess Kunigunde in the context of female devotional practices of the fourteenth century.

As always, you can find the episode on your website: http://ceumedievalradiopodcast.ceu.hu/?name=2022-11-25_pastperfect_25_11_panuskova.mp3

18/11/2022

Dear Listeners!
Some of you might have missed it, but our friends at MECERN had recently started to produce podcasts in which they interview the scholars of Medieval Central Europe.
Visit their website: https://www.mecern.eu/index.php/podcast/
Or listen to their consversations hosted on CEU Podcast Library, like this episode in which Zoë Opačić discusses how royalty, religion and relics impacted town planning and architecture of medieval Cracow, Prague, and Vienna: https://podcasts.ceu.edu/content/royalty-religion-relics