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. Over the next few months, we will be approaching historians, writers and other medievalists to conduct interviews. If you are interested in being interviewed, please contact us at medievalists.net@gmail.com
Featured Interviews
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.
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
