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    Materiality in the History of Christianity
    Peter Jones on the medieval obsession with relics, Christian heresies and why we shouldn’t reduce objects just down to their function or purpose
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    History of Laughter
    Peter Jones on three theories of laughter, humour as a way of doing politics and how laughter was perceived in the Medieval Europe
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    Dante’s Heaven
    Alessandro Scafi on Divine Comedy story line, the desire of God, and Mark Twain
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    Medieval Mapping
    Historian Alessandro Scafi on the Medieval knowledge about spherical form of the Earth, compass points on medieval maps, and role of history in mapping
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    Medieval Maps of Paradise
    Historian Alessandro Scafi on the garden of Eden, Augustin's concept of creation, and the emergence of the term "Paradise"
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    Sex in the Middle Ages
    Historian Ruth Mazo Karras on church court records, means of contraception, and sex and gender roles in the Middle Ages
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