“I’ve Got a Thing,” the first season of The Premodern Podcast, is a series of conversations about the objects, documents, and stories that premoderists just can’t stop thinking about. Marguerite Ragnow, Curator of the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, has got a thing–-manuscripts of self-enslavement from medieval Iberia. She is interviewed by Juliette Cherbuliez, Director of the Center for Premodern Studies and Professor of French at the University of Minnesota. Ragnow’s featured manuscripts are a new acquisition of the James Ford Bell Library. The thin strips of parchment spark conversation about unfreedom in the Middle Ages and the process and significance of curation.

The conversations on this podcast represent the framing and views of individual scholars which are not necessarily shared by the Center for Premodern Studies, the University of Minnesota, and their staff and affiliates.

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Link to View a Picture of the Iberian Self-Enslavement Manuscripts (Coming Soon)

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Link to Learn about the James Ford Bell Library

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Our theme music is “Dangerous Diamonds” by Rogue Valley written by Chris Koza.

Our intermission music is "Summer is icumen in" by Anya Badaldavood.

This episode was produced by Moinak Choudhury.