CEU Medieval Radio

25/12/2024

Dear Listeners,
we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! While celebrating with your family, you can listen to our archival Christmas special: https://youtu.be/MJFHte9D8nQ?si=PpBi3X5IgWSeXDRe
We will return in New Year with new interviews.

Image: Nativity scene from the Tilliot Hours, France (Tours), ca. 1500: Yates Thompson MS 5, f. 41v

21/12/2024

In preparations for the upcoming holiday season, we present to you, Dear Listeners, a new episode of Past Perfect!

This time we interview Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, a researcher at the University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences, who talks to us about the place of Byzantium in the Medieval World. What were the links between the medieval Eastern Roman Empire and other polities of the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond? How mobile were its inhabitants? What was the impact of the environment on the Empire? Listen to it here: https://youtu.be/yqrURlbMa_g

Image: Tabula Peutingeriana, Austrian National Library

20/11/2024

New episode of Past Perfect is out! We sit down to talk with Basema Hamarneh, Professor of Late Antique and Early Christian Archaeology at the University of Vienna to discuss the visual cultures of the Late Antique and Early Medieval Eastern Meditterean. Land of pagan, early Christian, and Islamic traditions, it saw both interesting shifts and fascinating continuities in its visual cultures: https://youtu.be/DKtwTh8WwzU

Image: Fresco of a bathing woman, Quasyr Amra, Umayyad Caliphate 730 - 740 AD

01/09/2024

The new episode of Past Perfect is out!

This time we interview Grace Stafford, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, who explores questions of gender and identity in the Late Antique visual culture. We ask her about the boundaries of Art History, Archeology, and Late Antique Studies and learn what new perspective the study of visual culture brings to our understanding of the role and perception of women in Late Antiquity.

Listen to it here: https://youtu.be/_v1UY0ZTsWQ

Image: Funerary portrait of a Roman matrona from Viminacium, Serbia, 4th century.

13/08/2024

Dear Listeners, the new episode of Past Perfect is now available on our channel!
Our guest is Nikoloz Aleksidze, an alumnus and former Junior Core Fellow at CEU. He is currently the Dean and a professor at the School of Governance and Social Sciences at the Free University of Georgia. We discussed his recent book, “Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia,” and he shared his experiences as a master's student at CEU. You can enjoy the interview here: https://youtu.be/FHT64c8CGyA

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.