From Politics to Monastic Houses and What They Did With All That Land, with Victoria Hodgson
Kate Buchanan is joined by Victoria Hodgson to discuss Victoria’s journey to studying medieval Scottish monastic houses and their lands. Victoria Hodgson specializes…
Werewolves and snakewomen
Dr Miranda Griffin, College Lecturer in medieval French literature, provides a fascinating investigation of medieval tales of transformation, exploring the way in which the Middle Ages imagined the frontiers between the human and the animal.
Interview with Tamas Kiss of CEU Medieval Radio
CEU Medieval Radio is currently the only medieval themed radio on the internet which plays only authentic medieval and renaissance music from the Iberian Peninsula to the Ottoman Empire.
The British History Podcast
With over seventy episodes recorded, the British History Podcast is giving people a lot to listen too.
Medieval Podcasts
Here are eighteen podcasts/radio programs you can listen to which offer great content on the Middle Ages.
In Our Time: Marco Polo
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the celebrated Venetian explorer Marco Polo.
The Sword Brothers – Knights Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights
Listen to the three-part programme The Sword Brothers, broadcast by the CBC radio show Ideas
Famine, War and Plague: In Search of a Medieval Crisis
In the 14th century Europe experienced one of the worst crises in recorded human history which saw war, famine and plague decimate the population. In Ireland this crisis developed in a society already wracked by deep divisions and political upheaval.
Hospitals and leper houses in the Latin west during the Middle Ages
Audio podcast of a lecture by John Hine Mundy
Medieval Christmas Cookies Still In Fashion
So what does a Christmas cookie from centuries ago look like? This time of year, a bakery in Pennsylvania Dutch country is busy making cookies the same way they were made in medieval Germany, and their edible pieces of art history have attracted customers from all over the globe.
In Our Time: The Medieval University
In Our Time: The Medieval University BBC Radio 4 First Broadcast March 2011 In the 11th and 12th centuries a new type of…
The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages
The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages By Joyce Salisbury Second Edition Routledge, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-78095-7 Publisher’s Synopsis: This important book offers…
Amor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition
Amor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition From the CBC Radio series Ideas, this 2-part show examines the rise and…
In Our Time: Battle of Bannockburn
From the BBC Radio programme: In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn. On June 23rd 1314, Scottish forces…
Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land
Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land By Norman Housley Yale University Press, 2008 ISBN: 9780300118889 Publisher’s Synopsis: In a series of…
The Tale of Genji – podcast by Teresa Goff
Written a thousand years ago by Murasaki Shikibu, a 30 year-old lady in waiting of the 11th century Japanese Heian Court, The Tale…
Wars of the Roses – Podcasts
The Wars of the Roses is one of the most important events of late medieval English history. Lasting from 1455 to 1485, it…
BBC: Woman’s Hour
Woman’s Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It has been running since 1946 and consists of reports, interviews…
BBC: The Long View
The Long View is a radio programme aired on BBC Radio 4 that examines present day events from a historical perspective. Some of…
Medieval History Podcasts from the National Archives
The National Archives of the United Kingdom have been developing a series of podcasts about British history since 2006, covering all areas of…
Medieval Economics for the Peasant
The first part of the podcast provides an overview of how a typical medieval economy worked, including the role of guilds, knights and peasants.
The myth of the medieval chastity belt
Medieval scholar Albrecht Classen exposes the chastity belt as a popular myth that proliferated in the 19th century. After reviewing the evidence of the existence of the chastity belt, he found that scant research had been carried out, and that the chastity belt was a byproduct of the 19th-century fascination with instruments of torture from medieval times.
Ethnogenesis: A Contested Model of Early Medieval Europe
Ethnogenesis: A Contested Model of Early Medieval Europe Audio podcast given at Macquarie University (February 2007) Length: 20 minutes This podcast is a…