Past Perfect!
Five Years of Interviews with CEU Medieval Radio

Christopher Mielke (Edited by), Stephen Pow (Edited by), Tamás Kiss (Edited by)

9786156405166

Hardback, published 30 April 2020

306 pages, 48 illustrations
21 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm, 2.218 kg

In 2012, CEU Medieval Radio was launched as an effort not only to bring medieval music to everyone but also to make complex, high-quality scholarship more approachable to the general public. Over seventy interviews were recorded for CEU Medieval Radio's program ""Past Perfect!"" with the intent of bridging the gap between ""ivory tower"" academia and the listeners at home. In this volume, sixteen first-rate scholars kindly sat down before the microphone and got the chance to explain their work in a friendly and accessible way. Scholars like Natalie Zemon-Davis and Patrick Geary represent some of the international guests, János Bak and József Laszlovszky discuss amazing new research from Central European University, while Richard Unger and Benedek Láng are part of the CEU Medieval Radio team's personal favorites, talking about topics such as beer, queens, and code-breaking. From Apocalypses to Zooarchaeology, CEU Medieval Radio's long time host, Christopher Mielke, asks the tough questions that have made this program so memorable!

• Preface
• CHAPTER 1. How it all began. Harmonia with Angela Mariani Interviews CEU Medieval Radio
• INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS AND HONORED GUESTS
• CHAPTER 2. The Return of Natalie Zemon Davis: From Microhistory to Intercontinental Connections
• CHAPTER 3. Stealing the Limelight: Theft of Saintly Relics and Mythbreaking with Patrick Geary
• CHAPTER 4. Take Me Back to Constantinople: Averil Cameron Talks Byzantine Complexities and Complexes
• CHAPTER 5. Popular Culture and Cultural Hybridity: A Cultural Experience with Peter Burke
• CHAPTER 6. The End is Near: Talking Medieval Mindsets and Eschatology with Felicitas Schmieder
• HERE AT HOME: CEU MEDIEVAL STUDIES FACULTY MEMBERS
• CHAPTER 7. Monks, Crusaders, and Fishponds: Digging up the Past with Jó
  zsef Laszlovszky
• CHAPTER 8. Royal Power, Insignia, and Authority: Já
  nos Bak Lays Down the Law
• CHAPTER 9. Life in a Medieval Urban Landscape: Taking a City Tour with Katalin Szende
• CHAPTER 10. Royal Saints, Witch Hunting, and Divine Visions: Gá
  bor Klaniczay Discusses All That's Holy
• CHAPTER 11. Pagans, Heretics, and Schismatics, Oh My! Volker Menze Talks Late Antique Society
• THE EDITORS' PICKS: PERSONAL FAVORITES AND MEMORABLE INTERVIEWS
• CHAPTER 12. Richard W. Unger Talks Ships, Beer, and Shop for Today's Historians
• CHAPTER 13. Hungarian Rhapsodies: Orsolya Ré
  thelyi Discusses Queens and Music in the Middle Ages
• CHAPTER 14. Trade and Migration Routes: Navigating the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean with Georg Christ
• CHAPTER 15. Medieval Magic and Cryptology: Benedek Lá
  ng Shares Some Dark Secrets
• Conclusion