Dark Ages/ Bright Ages: Religious Violence in the Medieval World

Join us on January 15  at noon/MST as we welcome special guest Dr. Matthew Gabriele.

Gabriele is a scholar, author, and speaker focusing primarily on religion/ violence, nostalgia/ apocalypse during the European Middle Ages, as well as how the medieval world has been remembered in subsequent generations, including the politics and pop culture of today. He’s a professor of medieval history at Virginia Tech and member of the Royal Historical Society (UK).

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Gabriele has published several academic books and more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles, and has given talks at universities across the US, as well as in England, Scotland, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. His public writing has appeared in places such as The Washington Post, Time, CNN, Slate, Smithsonian Magazine, and MS NOW (formerly MSNBC). Interviews with him on radio, podcasts, and TV have aired locally, nationally, and internationally, and he now hosts the podcast “American Medieval.”

See a sample of his writings and interviews here.

Most recently, he’s the co-author of The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (Harper Books, 2021), and Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers that Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe(Harper Books, 2024). His new book, Violence: A Christian History, will be out with WW Norton in late 2027/ early 2028.