Walking fish, knights fighting snails, murderous rabbits, mischievous monkeys, The images in the margins of many medieval manuscripts, both holy and secular, can be saintly and beautiful - but also pl...Show More
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rmmiller364 recommended:Jun 29th, 2020
Medieval marginalia is one of my favorite things to teach. I loved the sound design of this podcast and the fact that they talked to so many art historians. Medieval marginalia has so many interpretations, so getting all these different perspectives in was very important. I do wish that they had con...Show More
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epekilisJun 30th, 2020
@rmmiller364 This sounds AMAZING. If you like medieval marginalia, you have to listen to this podcast: Medieval manuscripts and the First World War from History Extra podcast on @podysseyapp: https://podyssey.fm/episode/id465829. After hearing this, I ran out and bought the book and thought it wa...Show More
rmmiller364Jun 30th, 2020
@epekilis oh, what a great recommendation! I love Christopher de Hamel. I assign a lot of his writing to my students, including the Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts book. In fact, this year I got a grant to buy high-quality facsimiles of medieval manuscripts and I had my students write essays ab...Show More
epekilisJun 30th, 2020
@rmmiller364 I would LOVE to take one of your courses. I found the podcast about the women scribes for you: Medieval woman painters, houseplants eat pollution, viruses that kill superbugs, Antarctica turns researchers into zombies, fresh water is getting saltier and which planets are we missing? f...Show More
rmmiller364Jun 30th, 2020
@epekilis awesome! Thank you! I have added both of these to my to-listen list!
epekilisAug 24th, 2020
@rmmiller364 I have been trying to play this episode for weeks without success. Today I went straight to the BBC website for Seriously and it says sorry, this episode not available. π’
rmmiller364Aug 24th, 2020
@epekilis oh no! It was so good!
rmmiller364Aug 25th, 2020
@epekilis I just checked and they removed it from Spotify too. I wonder why?!