The project’s podcast season continues! In the new episode, Godelinde Gertrude Perk interviews Aleksandra (“Sasha”) Pfau, James and Emily Bost Odyssey Professor of History at Hendrix College, Arkansas, and author of Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France (AUP). The episode introduces us to several late-medieval individuals with mental illness, challenges particular preconceptions about medieval mental illness that we may have brought on board (the religious model was present, but not omnipresent), and equips us with several parallels between disability studies and her findings as (sea) food for thought.
You can find the episode on Trivium’s website and on Spotify.