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CEU Medieval Podcast is a collection of past episodes of the radio's talk shows 'Past Perfect!', Echoes of Early, New Faces - New Ideas and recorded public lectures presented at Central European University's Medieval Studies Department. Music was removed from the podcast version of the shows due to copyright regulations.

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Past Perfect! with Marianne D. Birnbaum

26-10-2013

In this episode of ‘Past Perfect!’ our guiest is UCLA’s Prof. Emerita Marianne D. Birnbaum, who will talk about the literature produced by renaissance Hungarian poets such as Janus Pannonius and Bálint Balassi and allow some insight into Jewish living in the early modern period by discussing the extraordinary life of Gracia Mendes. In this episode Prof. Birnbaum and Chris also take an intellectual detour from the Middle Ages while talking about Moses Mendelssohn and Jewish enlightenment in the 18th century.

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Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where staff of CEU Medieval Radio casually discuss with guests various issues from the crusades to archeozoology 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, archeologists, etc.