Past Perfect!

25 episodes

Past Perfect! CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, was produced in association with Civil Rádió FM98. In this series, Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.

Episodes of the series

Episode 1
Medieval Medicine and the Black Death
Published on Jun 18, 2019
Episode 2
An Excursion into Zooarchaeology
Published on Jun 26, 2019
Episode 3
A Classical Philologist’s Journey: Late Antiquity, Ancient Sex and Hagiography
Published on Jul 29, 2019
Episode 4
Literature and Jewish Identity in the Early Modern Period
Published on Jul 30, 2019
Episode 5
The Medieval Urban Network of Hungary
Published on Jul 11, 2019
Episode 6
Christianity and Culture in the Fourth and Fourteenth Centuries
Published on Jul 18, 2019
Episode 7
Introduction to Medieval Studies and Archaeology
Published on Sep 12, 2019
Episode 8
Last Pagans and Greek Mythology in the Christian World
Published on Jan 14, 2022
Episode 9
Anglo-Normans, Castles, and Trade in Medieval Ireland
Published on Jan 22, 2022
Episode 10
Needed vs. Stigmatized: Jewish people in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Published on Jan 25, 2022
Episode 11
World in Fragments: Glass Trade between the Middle East and Western Europe in the Late Middle Age
Published on Jan 31, 2022
Episode 12
World in Fragments: Glass Trade between the Middle East and Western Europe in the Late Middle Age
Published on Jan 31, 2022
Episode 13
King Sigismund of Hungary and Hungarian International Diplomacy in 14-15 centuries
Published on Feb 8, 2022
Episode 14
Regional Identity and Urban Development in the Eastern Roman Provinces
Published on Feb 14, 2022
Episode 15
Medieval Roads in Western Hungary
Published on Feb 21, 2022
Episode 16
Clergy, Foreign Lands, and Apocalypse: Medieval Perception of the World
Published on Mar 13, 2022
Episode 17
Renaissance Occultism and Its Perception in Modernity
Published on Mar 13, 2022
Episode 18
Queens and Queenship in Sixteenth-Century Hungary and the Netherlands
Published on Mar 21, 2022
Episode 19
Between William the Conqueror, Chaucer and Dante: Language Changes in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeIn this episode of Past Perfect, Chris Mielke is joined by Ádám Nádasdy, a professor of English linguistics and a poet who is famous for translation Shea
Published on Apr 5, 2022
Episode 20
Medieval Woodlands, Forests, and Landscapes
Published on Mar 28, 2022
Episode 21
Production and Symbolism of Transylvanian Altarpieces in the 15th & 16th Centuries
Published on Apr 9, 2022
Episode 22
Studying Sermons of the Late Middle Ages
Published on Jun 28, 2020
Episode 23
The Apocalyptic Movement of the Taborites
Published on Nov 26, 2020
Episode 24
Szádvár Castle - its Foes and its Friends
Published on Apr 13, 2021
Episode 25
Medieval Nation and Dalimil's Chronicle
Published on Oct 27, 2022

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