Urban Growth and Town Foundations

In this episode, Miri Rubin introduces the Middle Ages, a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European history.

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Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval History at Queen Mary University of London and Head of the School of History. She has taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and has held visiting positions in Paris, Princeton, and New York. Her research has explored areas of the religious cultures of medieval Europe, and has been influenced by an interdisciplinary approach which had benefited from the use of textual, visual and musical sources.

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