The MECERN podcasts are conversations with leading researchers about their recent or on-going work on the medieval world of Central Europe. The podcasts aim to be intellectually stimulating and informative, while being informal and accessible. The subjects range from the ‘broad brush stroke’ to the ‘fine detail’ and most points in between, and include the widest range of social spheres possible, from kings to clerics to commoners.
If you are interested in innovative ideas and new approaches to medieval Central European history, and have thirty five minutes to sit back and listen, this is the place for you.
Apollonius, King of Tyre – a Medieval Blockbuster Anna Boreczky Restory – Recovering Cultural Roots of Small Communities Adinel Dincă Digital Gaming – Doing History Today Olga Kalashnikova, Jan Kremer Migrants, Missionaries and Merchants –from Lotharingia to New Europe in 11th to 13th Centuries Nicholas Tayler The Persistence of Jewish Otherness among the New Christians of Spalato – Integration, Persecution and Trade Lena Sadovski Fair Relations: Business, Church and Power Katalin Szende Pirates and Privateers – a Linguistic Conundrum of the 15th Century Baltic Gregor Rohmann Places of Patronage and Piety – the Cult of the Virgin Mary in late Medieval Hungary Karen Stark Seshat and Cliopatria – a Global View of Human History from 3,400BCE to the Present Jakob Zsambok Symbolic Capital and a Saintly Bishop in Medieval Poland Grzegorz Pac The Rode Altarpiece and Time Travel to the 1480s Merike Kurisoo Revelations in Glass – Nuremberg’s Apocalyptic Windows Jessica Knowles The Making of the Wenceslas Bible Maria Theisen Good Friday Sermons – the Mass Media of 14th Century Bohemia Olga Kalashnikova Noble Ladies: Between East and West Natalia (Talia) Zajac Noble & Lazy? The Nuns of St George’s Abbey in Prague Castle Karel Pacovský The Golden Horde in the 13th Century; Coups, Conflicts and Gold Jack Wilson A Global Moment in the Middle Ages Martin Bauch Mapping Castles, Churches and Cemeteries to Show How Central Europe Became Christian Maria Vargha The Right of Reprisal – a Customary Law of International Trade Leslie Carr-Riegel Public Politics and Private Piety – Representations of Rulership in Late Medieval Bohemia Grischa Vercamer Urban Demography, Migrants and Masters – a case study of Cluj in the late Middle Ages Agnes Flora Medieval Liturgy and the Making of a Political Identity – A Case Study of Poland circa 1000 Paweł Figurski Scribal Additions; The Scribes, Their Humour, and their Nonsense Lucie Doležalová Waqf villages – Ottoman pious foundations, and populating the conquered lands of the Balkans Grigor Boykov The Gothic Architect – an International, Professional Elite Jana Gajdosova Conflict, Collusion, and an Unholy Alliance – Diplomatic Relationships in 14th Century Balkans Emir Filipovic Aquincum, the Town and its Legacy Orsolya Lang Rituals and the Legitimisation of Rulership in the High Middle Ages in Bohemia Robert Antonin The Story of the Book – How the ‘Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe 800 – 1600’ was Made Nada Zecevic, Daniel Ziemann Medieval and Macabre – Images of Death in Fifteenth Century Bohemia Daniela Rywikova Royalty, Religion & Relics Zoë Opačić The Herders of Korčula: A study of a socio-professional community in fifteenth-century Dalmatia Fabian Kümmeler Love, Marriage and Litigation in 15th Century Bohemia Michaela Antonín Malaníková Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 Christian Raffensperger Courtly Gossip, and Religious Reformation in 15th Century Central Europe Antonin Kalous
