Going Medieval: The history of plagues

Self isolation, plague, closed borders, quarantine. These are all words we've become very familiar with over the past year, but they have their roots in plagues of the past.  Historian and medievalist Dr Eleanor Janega runs the Going Medieval blog and podcasts her way around the world, looking into the past.

She somehow fits this all in around teaching and lecturing as well. She made time for us to talk about just how medieval the modern moment is.