The Premodern Podcast Premodern Studies

“I’ve Got a Thing,” the first season of The Premodern Podcast, is a series of conversations about the objects, documents, and stories that premodernists just can’t stop thinking about. In this episode, Bruno Debaenst and Ryan Greenwood discuss Joos de Damhoudere’s mid-16th century lawbook, the Praxis rerum criminalium, including with its controversial origins, its role in legal history and the humanist movement, and Damhoudere’s adept use of visual media to explain the text.

“I’ve Got a Thing,” the first season of The Premodern Podcast, is a series of conversations about the objects, documents, and stories that premodernists just can’t stop thinking about. In this episode, Lydia Garver introduces us to Christopher Ludwick and his porcelain bowl and makes an argument for why archaeologists should be opposed to time travel.

“I’ve Got a Thing,” the first season of The Premodern Podcast, is a series of conversations about the objects, documents, and stories that premodernists just can’t stop thinking about. In this episode, JB Shank discusses lathe-turned ivories as a lens for thinking about early modern European courts and elite engagement with the arts and sciences.

“I’ve Got a Thing,” the first season of The Premodern Podcast, is a series of conversations about the objects, documents, and stories that premodernists just can’t stop thinking about. In this episode, Jennifer Awes Freeman traces the shapes and forms of the Good Shepherd motif and explains why people in the past had very different ideas about this common pastoral image.

“I’ve Got a Thing,” the first season of The Premodern Podcast, is a series of conversations about the objects, documents, and stories that premoderists just can’t stop thinking about. Marguerite Ragnow, Curator of the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, has got a thing–-manuscripts of self-enslavement from medieval Iberia. She is interviewed by Juliette Cherbuliez, Director of the Center for Premodern Studies and Professor of French at the University of Minnesota. Ragnow’s featured manuscripts are a new acquisition of the James Ford Bell Library. The thin strips of parchment spark conversation about unfreedom in the Middle Ages and the process and significance of curation.
The conversations on this podcast represent the framing and views of individual scholars which are not necessarily shared by the Center for Premodern Studies, the University of Minnesota, and their staff and affiliates.
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Our theme music is “Dangerous Diamonds” by Rogue Valley written by Chris Koza.
Our intermission music is "Summer is icumen in" by Anya Badaldavood.
This episode was produced by Moinak Choudhury.