Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce that season 5 of The Multicultural Middle Ages has officially launched. This season promises to be our biggest one yet, and we are starting strong with our first episode: “Pandemic in the Medieval World: Teaching a New Black Death Narrative in the 21st Century.”
How do pandemics happen? In this episode, historians of medieval medicine Monica H. Green, Winston Black, and Lucy Barnhouse talk with Will Beattie about the genesis of a new open-access teaching module on the Black Death. Our understanding of the late medieval pandemic has been transformed not only because of advances in the biological sciences, but also because historians have recently discovered—or newly interpreted—written records from the 13th and 14th centuries. For the first time, the Islamicate world’s experience is centered in the narrative, allowing entirely new perspectives on the Afro-Eurasian pandemic to be revealed.
Please, tune in! You can find The Multicultural Middle Ages on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcasting platforms. You can also listen through our website: https://www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/listen
And please follow us on social media: Bluesky (@mmapod.bsky.social) and Instagram (@multiculturalmiddleagespod).
All the best,
The Multicultural Middle Ages Team
Jonathan F. Correa Reyes
Assistant Professor of English
Clemson University
Co-producer The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast
