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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast

The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast

By: Will Beattie Jonathan Correa Reyes Loren Cantrell Reed O'Mara & Logan Quigley
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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast brings together medievalists from all professional and disciplinary tracks to think and talk about the diversity of the Middle Ages. We offer public-facing, open access content directed at experts and non-experts alike to present updated, accurate, and culturally responsible accounts of the plurality of the medieval period.

Series producers: Will Beattie, Jonathan F. Correa Reyes, Loren Easterday Lee Cantrell, Reed O'Mara, and Logan Quigley.

Our podcast is made possible by the Medieval Academy of America. Our Speculum Spotlight series is produced in partnership with Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.

For more information about The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast, visit our website:

https://www.multiculturalmiddleages.com.

Will Beattie, Jonathan Correa Reyes, Loren Cantrell, Reed O'Mara, & Logan Quigley 2025 Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • Speculum Spotlight | Snakes and Ecology in Byzantine Aesthetics

    Speculum Spotlight | Snakes and Ecology in Byzantine Aesthetics
    2 Oct 2026

    In this episode, we chat with Dr. John Kee about his contribution to Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, in which Kee explores the intersections of ecology, aesthetics, and human relationships to the natural world in the context of Byzantine representations of snakes in text and imagery.

    For more information, visit www.multiculturalmiddleages.com.
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    42 mins
  • A Multiplicity of Voices: Music and Identity in the Middle Ages

    A Multiplicity of Voices: Music and Identity in the Middle Ages
    20 Sep 2026

    What did it mean to have a voice in the Middle Ages? And why is music essential for understanding the medieval voice? Join musicologists Saagar Asnani and Flannery McIntyre as they discuss how the voice can reveal the relationship between music and identity.

    For more information, visit www.multiculturalmiddleages.com.
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    55 mins
  • Unknown Hands: Women Copying the Medieval Book

    Unknown Hands: Women Copying the Medieval Book
    28 Aug 2026

    In 2019, the discovery of ultramarine pigment in the dental calculus of a medieval woman provided the first physical evidence of female scribes, challenging the widespread assumption that manuscript copying was an exclusively male activity. In this episode, scholar Estelle Guéville draws on her doctoral research to explore the overlooked history of medieval women scribes and show how they played a far more significant role in literacy and book production than traditionally believed.

    For more information, visit www.multiculturalmiddleages.com.

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    34 mins
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