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Two professional #medieval historians named Alice host a #podcast answering any question from anyone about anything to do with the #MiddleAges @ON_SOAP

London, England
Joined January 2017
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No YOUR podcast’s coming back after over a year of complete silence
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Medieval History For Fun And Profit retweeted
Have you ever used the People of Medieval Scotland database (aka PoMS)? @BreakofBritain In the run up to our tenth anniversary, we've designed a short survey to find out how it's been used. Please do fill it in! surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Y8NC7HV
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A really brilliant piece (and the same goes for medieval history of course) teapawt.net/HistPhilosophy/status/…
Should philosophers be expected to engage with the public more, and do less narrow and specialized research? I argue no, in this blog post inspired by comments here on Twitter by @HiPhiNation and @philosophybites, with a shout-out to @ElucidationsPod. historyofphilosophy.net/publ…
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Extended deadline! Call for Papers: Revealing Records IX. A postgraduate medievalist conference at KCL, 25 May 2018. Send abstracts to [email protected] by 25 February 2018 #CfP #CallforPapers
January was sadly lacking in both fun and profit for us - but we will be back soon! in the meantime, here is an interview by one of us about the podcast (warning: in French) with the excellent @PMedievistes teapawt.net/PMedievistes/status/96…
🎧 Pour notre 2ème hors-série la médiéviste Alice Rio nous parle de son #podcast anglais @medfunprof qu'elle co-anime avec Alice Taylor. ▶ soundcloud.com/fannycomo/hor…
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Sorry there hasn’t been a new episode - illness and marking have got the better of us, so we had to go on hiatus... We’ll be back in January with new episodes! Upcoming topics we are recording next include atheism and sex changes. Thank you for listening!
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...ninth-century wife, mother, and towering intellectual #womenswriting
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And also many thanks to @currencykidney for the excellent question: “How fair was what passed for a criminal justice system?”
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(from EP Evans, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, New York, 1906 - research for recording new episodes tomorrow!)
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It's things like this index entry that remind you why you became a medievalist:
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You now have an extra free half hour in your schedule! And it only takes a minute to give us a review on iTunes. Think about it!
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Apologies: it’s term time and we have been busy doing our actual jobs, so no new episode this weekend. Normal service will resume next week!
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For Reynard the Fox fans out there, @laBnF has an excellent dossier of medieval illuminations (and more) here: classes.bnf.fr/renart/feuill…
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