Figuring racism in medieval Christianity / M. Lindsay Kaplan
The making of the medieval Middle East: religion, society, and simple believers / Jack Tannous
The Phoenix Mosque and the Persians of medieval Hangzhou / edited by George Lane
Make We Merry More and Less: an Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature.
"Evere an hundred goode ageyn oon baddie [electronic resource] : catalogues of good women in medieval literature / by Ann H. McMillan
The Gender of Money in Middle English Literature [electronic resource] : Value and Economy in Late Medieval England / by Diane Cady
A mysterious blue pigment in the teeth of a medieval woman, and the evolution of online master’s degrees
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide free lectures and assignments, and gained global attention for their potential to increase education accessibility. Plagued with high attrition rates and fewer returning students every year, MOOCs have pivoted to a new revenue model—offering accredited master’s degrees for professionals. Host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Justin Reich, an assistant professor in the Comparative Media Studies Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, about the evolution of MOOCs and how these MOOC professional programs may be reaching a different audience than traditional online education. Archaeologists were flummoxed when they found a brilliant blue mineral in the dental plaque of a medieval-era woman from Germany. It turned out to be lapis lazuli—an expensive pigment that would have had to travel thousands of kilometers from the mines of Afghanistan to a monastery in Germany. Host Sarah Crespi talks to Christina Warinner, a professor of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, about how the discovery of this pigment shed light on the impressive life of the medieval woman, an artist who likely played a role in manuscript production. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image:Oberlin.edu/Wikimedia Commons; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Clues that the medieval plague swept into sub-Saharan Africa and evidence humans hunted and butchered giant ground sloths 12,000 years ago
New archaeological evidence suggests the same black plague that decimated Europe also took its toll on sub-Saharan Africa. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade about diverse medieval sub-Saharan cities that shrank or even disappeared around the same time the plague was stalking Europe. In a second archaeological story, Meagan Cantwell talks with Gustavo Politis, professor of archaeology at the National University of Central Buenos Aires and the National University of La Plata, about new radiocarbon dates for giant ground sloth remains found in the Argentine archaeological site Campo Laborde. The team’s new dates suggest humans hunted and butchered ground sloths in the late Pleistocene, about 12,500 years ago. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Ife-Sungbo Archaeological Project; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Youth and age in the medieval north [electronic resource] / edited by Shannon Lewis-Simpson
Introducing medieval biblical interpretation : the senses of scripture in premodern exegesis / Ian Christopher Levy
Solving the mystery of a medieval blue hue
Watercolor pigment's structure is unlike that of other natural blues from anthocyanins and indigo