Reduce Digital Distractions: Advice From Medieval Monks

Dr. Jamie Kreiner, associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, is this week's guest. She joins the panelists to talk about her article "How To Reduce Digital Distractions: Advice From Medieval Monks."

Show Notes

Dr. Jamie Kreiner, associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, is this week's guest.  She joins the Relevant or Irrelevant panelists to talk about her article How To Reduce Digital Distractions: Advice From Medieval Monks.

She is the author of The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (2014) and her latest book, Legions of Pigs in The Early Medieval West (2020). She lives in Athens, Georgia.

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