One of the goals of Medievalists.net is to help promote the books and research being done by academics, authors and those in the medieval community. We have now several dozen interviews done, and we will be doing more in the future. If you are interested in being interviewed, please contact us at [email protected]
Interviews by Email
Kaye Jones and Rupert Colley – the author of 1066 in an Hour, Kaye Jones, and the founder of History in an Hour, Rupert Colley
Rafe de Crespigny – author of Imperial Warlord: A Biography of Cao Cao 155-220 AD
Linda Laforge – orgnanizer of the Great Medieval Northern Fayre
Jayden Woods – author of Eadric the Grasper
Dan McCarthy – author of The Irish Annals: Their genesis, evolution and history
Claire Jones – editor of HerStoria
Dario Poloni – screenwriter of the film Black Death
Jeff Sypek – author of Becoming Charlemagne
Jerome de Groot – author of Consuming History
Lawrence Marvin – author of the Occitan War
Frederick S. Paxton – author of Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-century Saxony: The Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim
Haris A. Kalligas – author of Monemvasia: A Byzantine City State
Graeme Davis – author of Vikings in America
Lars Brownworth – author of Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Edward N. Luttwak – the internationally renowned expert on military and foreign affairs discusses his book The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Nancy Goldstone – author of The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I
Kevin Leahy – the National Finds Adviser from the Portable Antiquities Scheme discusses the Staffordshire Hoard Discovery
Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen – discusses his book The Gothic War
Stephen Lay – discusses his book The Reconquest Kings of Portugal: Political and Cultural Reorientation on the Medieval Frontier
Michael Bratchel – talks with us about his latest book on Medieval Lucca and about researching in the Italian city.
Ian Moritmer – author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
William Ian Miller – one of the leading historians in the field of Icelandic sagas talks about his latest book Audun and the Polar Bear
Rodney Stark – author of God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
Linda Carroll and Laura Sanguineti White – about their edition and translation of Cita Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diary of Marin Sanudo
Castle Wall Productions – we interview members of the Colorado-based theatrical troupe who give medieval-themed performances
Thomas Bisson – Harvard University professor talks about his book The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
Julian Luxford – University of St. Andrew’s scholar discovers new evidence about Robin Hood
Nancy Marie Brown – author of The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Women
Donald S. Richards – editor/translator of The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh
John Panikkar – of High Fidelity HDTV, on HDTV and medieval programs
Conor Kostick – author of The Social Structure of the First Crusade
Elisabeth Carnell – Coordinator of the International Congress on Medieval Studies
Guy Geltner – author of The Medieval Prison: A Social History, he answers our questions about his book
Lisa Jefferson – we interview her about her research into medieval London, which now includes two editions of records from the city’s guilds
Stephen Harris and Bryon L. Grigsby – they discusss their book Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri – discusses his book The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
Vicki Ellen Szabo – discusses her research on whales in the Middle Ages, and her latest book Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic
Natalie Zemon Davis: We discuss with the esteemed historian about her latest book: Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds, and about the way she approaches doing history.
Video Interviews
Since 2009, we have been doing video interviews with historians, writers and other medievalists, which we have posted to our Youtube page:
Richard Abels – medieval military historian
Katrin Sjursen – medieval historian
Robin Fleming – Anglo-Saxon historian
Anthony Adams – Medieval English professor
Jack Whyte – author
Anthea Boylston – Archaeologist
Iain McNeil, Development Director of Slitherine
John Hosler – medieval historian
Clifford Rogers – medieval military historian
Emma Campion, author of the King’s Mistress
Bernard S. Bachrach and David Bachrach – medieval historians
Shane Adams of Knights of Valour
Richard Britnell – medieval historians
Konrad Eisenbichler – Renaissance historian
Michelle Armstrong Partida – medieval historian
Dana Wessell Lightfoot and Alexandra Guerson – medieval historians
Elena Brizio – medieval historian
Walter Goffart – medieval historian
John France – medieval historian
Donald Kagay – medieval historian
Richard Scott Nokes – medieval English professor
Kelly DeVries – medieval military historian
Steven Walton – medieval technology historian
More Interviews
R.J. Johnston talks about his novel, Vinland: The Beginning
David Green discusses his latest work, Edward the Black Prince: Power in Medieval Europe
Florin Curta – Associate Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida, who focues on southeastern Europe.
Three Texts on the First Crusade – three important works on the First Crusade have recentled been edited and translated. We talk with all the editors – Carol Sweetenham, Susan B. Edgington, and David and Bernard Bachrach – about these chronicles and how important they are towards researching the Crusades.
János Bak – Professor Emeritus at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University (CEU), on the Central European Medieval Text Series, a new series of medieval chronicles that are being edited and translated into English.
Christopher Dinsdale – author of Stolen Away, a fiction novel set among the Vikings in North America
Amin Maalouf – historian and writer
Ken Follett – author of World Without End. We have another interview with him available here
Umberto Eco – famous author and writer, about his latest book On Ugliness
Terry Jones – former Monty Python member discusses his medieval career
Malcolm Barber – historian discusses the Crusades