With help from guest Erica Desautels, Sarah argues a) that The Little Mermaid DEFINITELY takes place in the late 17th century and is therefore a legitimate subject for this podcast and b) that it is clearly the best Disney movie. Join Sarah and Erica as we get into fish consumption, French cooking, costumes and material culture, and why contracts mattered in the medieval Mediterranean. 



Want to learn more about medieval contracts and notarial culture? Check out: 
Daniel Lord Smail, Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille (1999)Laurie Nussdorfer, Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome (2009)


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