Agnus: The Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Podcast

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Agnus is a monthly podcast about the fields of Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, and Medieval Islamic studies. Each month, Glenn McDorman talks to a scholar about her or his recent work on topics ranging from literature to politics, and from religion to art.

Episodes

Glenn McDorman on Bishops During the Fall of Rome

Glenn shares a little of his own research this episode. Support the show and help us reach our goal of producing Agnus year-round by becoming a patron on Patreon . Rate and review the show to help us reach more readers and listeners. Check out Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast for the exciting adventures of scholars saving the universe from scary monsters. Not enough science-fiction and fantasy in your life? Join us on The Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast ! Love Star Trek? Come find us on the Lower...

Dec 02, 2019•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Katherine Hodges-Kluck on Canterbury in Medieval English Christianity

Dr. Katherine Hodges-Kluck talks with Glenn about her research on the development of Canterbury as a New Jerusalem in medieval English Christianity. Support the show and help us reach our goal of producing Agnus year-round by becoming a patron on Patreon . Rate and review the show to help us reach more readers and listeners. Check out Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast for the exciting adventures of scholars saving the universe from scary monsters. Not enough science-fiction and fantasy in your...

Oct 24, 2019•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Thomas Pickles on the Anglo-Saxon Conversion to Christianity

Dr. Thomas Pickles talks with Glenn about his research on Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity as a social process rather than a king-centered event. Support the show and help us reach our goal of producing Agnus year-round by becoming a patron on Patreon . Rate and review the show to help us reach more readers and listeners. Check out Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast for the exciting adventures of scholars saving the universe from scary monsters. Not enough science-fiction and fantasy in y...

Sep 19, 2019•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Elizabeth Urban on Early Islamic Models of Slave Motherhood

Dr. Elizabeth Urban on slavery, identity, and the ideology of rulership. Support the show and gain access to over two dozen bonus episodes by becoming a patron on Patreon . Rate and review the show to help us reach more readers and listeners Check out Elder Sign: A Weird Fiction Podcast for the exciting adventures of scholars saving the universe from scary monsters. Not enough science-fiction and fantasy in your life? Join us on The Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast ! Love Star Trek? Come find us on t...

Apr 29, 2019•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Sorina Higgins on The Inklings and King Arthur

Sorina Higgins talks to Glenn about her edited volume The Inklings and King Arthur, what goes into editing a volume of scholarship, and the state of Inklings studies. Pick up a copy of The Inklings and King Arthur . Check out our new podcast Elder Sign . Support the show and help us reach our goal of producing episodes year-round by becoming a patron on Patreon . Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum ....

Mar 11, 2019•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Rory Cox on War and Peace in John Wyclif

Dr. Rory Cox talks to Glenn about war and peace in the philosophical and theological works of the late medieval priest and professor John Wyclif. Support the show and help us reach our goal of producing episodes year-round by becoming a patron on Patreon . Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum .

Feb 11, 2019•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Micol Long on Visiting Monks in the High Middle Ages

Dr. Micol Long talks to Glenn about the role of travel in monastic culture and education during the high Middle Ages. Support the show and help us reach our goal of producing episodes year-round by becoming a patron on Patreon . Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum .

Nov 20, 2018•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Michael Stewart on Masculinity in the Gothic War

Dr. Michael Stewart joins Glenn to talk about concepts of masculinity in the narrative account of the sixth-century Gothic War by the historian Procopius. Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum . Support the show by becoming a patron on Patreon . Subscribe to the show. Follow Glenn on Twitter . Follow Claytemple Media on Twitter . Up next: Monastic intellectual culture with Dr. Micol Long....

Oct 09, 2018•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Sarah Baechle on Chaucer Manuscripts

Dr. Sarah Baechle joins Glenn to talk about the notes in the manuscript margins of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Learn all about medieval manuscripts and book production, Middle English, and what we can learn from the notes on the sides of book pages. Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum . Support the show by becoming a patron on Patreon . Up next: Masculinity in the Gothic War with Dr. Michael Stewart....

Sep 12, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Maile Hutterer on Architecture and Religious Expression

This month, Glenn talks with Dr. Maile Hutterer about architecture and religious expression during the early modern Wars of Religion. Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum . To support the show and help us reach our goal of producing episodes more frequently, please become a patron on Patreon . You'll gain immediate access to more than a dozen bonus podcast episodes....

Apr 30, 2018•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Richard Broome on Otherness in the Early Carolingian World

Join Glenn as he talks with Dr. Richard Broome about otherness in the early Carolingian world. Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum . To support the show and help us reach our goal of producing episodes more frequently, please become a patron on Patreon . Follow Claytemple Media and Glenn on Twitter....

Mar 06, 2018•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Valerie Hoagland on Female Biography in Early Modern Italy

Join Glenn as he talks with Dr. Valerie Hoagland about her work on female biography in early modern Italy. Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum .

Feb 05, 2018•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Robin Whelan on Christianity in Vandal Africa

Join Glenn as he talks with Dr. Robin Whelan about his new book Being Christian in Vandal Africa . Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum . Support the show and gain access to exclusive bonus content by becoming a patron on Patreon . Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes , Stitcher; or listen directly from the website . Be sure to check out our other shows: The Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast and Lower Decks (A Star Trek: Discovery Podcast) ....

Jan 26, 2018•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Divna Manolova on Late Byzantine Science and Philosophy

Join me as I talk with Dr. Divna Manolova about science and philosophy in Late Byzantium. Read more about her current project here . Subscribe to Agnus on iTunes or Stitcher . Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum . Follow Claytemple Media on Facebook and Twitter . Subscribe to the Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher ; or stream directly from the website . Support the show by becoming a patron on Patreon ....

Dec 12, 2017•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Laura Carlson on the Opus Caroli

Join me as I talk with Dr. Laura Carlson about theology and politics in the Carolingian Empire in her article "Adoption, Adaptation, and Authority: The Use of Isidore of Seville in the Opus Caroli." Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum . Read Dr. Carlson's article in Isidore of Seville and His Reception in the Early Middle Ages . Follow Claytemple Media on Facebook and Twitter ....

Nov 02, 2017•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Prof. Jay Diehl on Writing at Durham Priory

Join me as I talk with Prof. Jay Diehl about his article “The Saint, The Voice, and the Author: Imagining Textual Authority and Personal Presence at Durham Priory,” which was published in the journal Viator in 2016. Visit us on the Claytemple Forum to join the conversation.

Oct 05, 2017•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast

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Episodes

Agnus: The Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Podcast

Episodes

Glenn McDorman on Bishops During the Fall of Rome

Dr. Katherine Hodges-Kluck on Canterbury in Medieval English Christianity

Dr. Thomas Pickles on the Anglo-Saxon Conversion to Christianity

Dr. Elizabeth Urban on Early Islamic Models of Slave Motherhood

Sorina Higgins on The Inklings and King Arthur

Dr. Rory Cox on War and Peace in John Wyclif

Dr. Micol Long on Visiting Monks in the High Middle Ages

Dr. Michael Stewart on Masculinity in the Gothic War

Dr. Sarah Baechle on Chaucer Manuscripts

Dr. Maile Hutterer on Architecture and Religious Expression

Dr. Richard Broome on Otherness in the Early Carolingian World

Dr. Valerie Hoagland on Female Biography in Early Modern Italy

Dr. Robin Whelan on Christianity in Vandal Africa

Dr. Divna Manolova on Late Byzantine Science and Philosophy

Dr. Laura Carlson on the Opus Caroli

Prof. Jay Diehl on Writing at Durham Priory

Dr. Jamie Wood

Dr. Sarah Lynch on Late Medieval Education

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