Meeting in the Middle Ages: Weigh Your Books! An Interview with Dr. Andrew Irving

Description

This was my interview with Will Beattie and Ben Pykare for the Meeting in the Middle Ages podcast of the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame. 

Here is there description of the podcast:

Meeting in the Middle Ages is the Medieval Institute’s podcast. Our goal is to answer the questions "what do medievalists do, and how do they do it?" Episodes—a new one each month—are built around informal conversations between our hosts, Ben and Will, and medievalist scholars and graduate students. We discuss how they became medievalists, what led them to their current research, the resources they use, and how they use them.

While other podcasts about the medieval world look at specific topics, from Byzantine battle-formations to Viking voting patterns, we peer behind the curtain to see what the academic lives of medievalists are like.

Meeting in the Middle Ages is sponsored by the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame and supported by the Medieval Academy of America’s Graduate Student Committee through their Community Building Award. Special thanks to Dr. Tom Burman and Dr. Megan J. Hall for their work to help launch and sustain Meeting in the Middle Ages.

This month we sit down with Dr. Andrew Irving, assistant professor of religion and heritage at the University of Groningen. We talk with him about his journey to Medieval Studies, his work on the 11th century Uta Codex, why one should always weigh their books, and why liturgy is like a Wagnerian opera.