{"podcast":{"title":"The Medieval Irish History Podcast","slug":"the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519","podcast_index_feed_id":6716519,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ee5ac640/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/39889264/39889264-1701801575802-e4f9bcca653db.jpg","author":"The Medieval Irish History Podcast","episode_count":59,"summary":"Hosted by Dr Niamh Wycherley, this podcast shows that medieval Irish history is complex and dynamic — not at all stuffy or static. Via lively and engaging chats with leading experts, it explores aspects of a largely ignored, but commonly evoked, period, and shares new and exciting research on medieval Ireland. medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University & Taighde Éireann. Views expressed are speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519"},"episode":{"title":"Medieval Medicine with Prof. Deborah Hayden","slug":"medieval-medicine-with-prof-deborah-hayden","published_at":"2025-10-17T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519/medieval-medicine-with-prof-deborah-hayden","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory/episodes/Medieval-Medicine-with-Prof--Deborah-Hayden-e39kl65","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ee5ac640/podcast/play/109777541/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-9-16%2F409399164-44100-2-be4d9097fe144.m4a","summary":"This week Prof. Deborah Hayden, our Head here in the Dept. of Early Irish, Maynooth University, explains what it was like both to go the, or become a, doctor in medieval Ireland! Taking us through a chronological development from the early medico-legal texts through the surge in scientific writing in the later Middle Ages she explains everything from how to cure a broken heart and how much to pay for surgery to where medical knowledge came from and how much more we have to learn from the understudied corpus of Irish medical manuscripts. Further resources can be found here: https://leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/the-first-physicians-of-ireland/ https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/1114/1010637-what-was-it-like-to-go-to-the-doctor-in-medieval-ireland/ Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday) Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Producer: Tiago Veloso Silva Supported by Maynooth University, the Dept of Early Irish, the Dept of Music, the Dept of History, & Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland. Views expressed are the speakers' own. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music","meta_description":"This week Prof. Deborah Hayden, our Head here in the Dept. of Early Irish, Maynooth University, explains what it was like both to go the, or become a, doc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3289,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519/episodes/medieval-medicine-with-prof-deborah-hayden/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519/medieval-medicine-with-prof-deborah-hayden.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}