Irina Dumitrescu: Can We Understand the People of the Past?

Update: 2025-02-06

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Medieval scholar Irina Dumitrescu and I talk about the medieval mindset, faith, doubt, sex, and suicide. And also Margery Kempe and fame, heretics and wives, Strauss and Glück, Girard and Hamlet, pilgrims, saints, madness, vegetarianism, secrets, the Inquisition, and much more.

Oh and Monty Python, of course!

Irina:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/irina-dumitrescu

https://x.com/irinibus

https://irinadumitrescu.com/about-me/

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