When the eras of history are re-examined from multiple perspectives, we can begin to see that the boundaries of eras, not to mention the generally accepted names of them, are not so clear. Today, we are talking with Young Kim from the University of Illinois Chicago whose work examines Cyprus of the fifth and sixth centuries as a case study in the transition from so-called Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Is the line between these eras so clear as once thought? How does the examination of events of this time and place from different perspectives affect our understanding of the transition to the Middle Ages? Was this transition even a transition or can we characterize this time period more accurately by looking at the evidence differently? Dr. Kim will help us explore these questions for Cyprus but also help us interrogate more widely the ways that the past is reconstructed in all eras.

A conversation with Anna Rosensweig from the University of Rochester who shares with us her latest work on how Christian Nationalists and QAnon conspiracists in the US are currently mobilizing texts, images, and ideas from the sixteenth-century Wars of Religion in France .