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New Medieval Books: Dante’s Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri stands as one of medieval literature’s greatest masterpieces. This book follows the remarkable journey of Dante’s epic, from its creation in the early 1300s through centuries of both fame and neglect, to its enduring influence today, inspiring books, movies, and more.

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Latin Words in Ancient and Byzantine Greek, with Eleanor Dickey

Byzantium & Friends, Episode 122: A conversation with Eleanor Dickey on Latin words in ancient and Byzantine Greek. Eleanor has tracked them down and compiled them in a specialized dictionary, where she also offers new arguments about when, how, and why they were borrowed by Greek-speakers. It reaches down to 600 AD, but many of them survived later too, even into modern spoken Greek.

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Bad Chaucer with Tison Pugh – The Medieval Podcast, Episode 264

When it comes to classics of literature, it can feel like there’s a lot of pressure to nod along with the crowd and say that some authors are just brilliant, full stop. But sometimes even great literature isn’t so great. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Tison Pugh about the good, the bad, and the downright ugly in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.