Re-Post - Mother Mary’s Day w/ Eleanor Janega

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the first part of our Mother’s Day festivities, we’re unlocking our Mother’s Day episode from 2023 with Eleanor Janega. A new one on Eleanor of Aquitaine is out tomorrow for subscribers, so subscribe now. Enjoy! Happy Mother’s Day! Danny and Derek welcome Eleanor Janega, co-host of the We’re Not So Different podcast and author of The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society, to talk about one of the great mothers of history: The Virgin Mary. They discuss what actually makes Mary the ultimate medieval mother (despite being from ancient times), how her story is fan fiction for the Middle Ages, conceptions and the reality of motherhood in the medieval era across different classes, the sexualization of Mary, her treatment in different Christian sects, and more. Look out for the second season of our Welcome to the Crusades series with Eleanor and Luke of We're Not so Different. In the meantime, get season 1 here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.8	Next time, I'm going to do. Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. Hello, Prestige heads, and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davison. And happy Mother's Day. And in honor of Mother's Day,
1:18.6	we're very excited to have a wonderful guest, someone who I am a big fan of and have been for several years, Eleanor Yanaga. Eleanor is the co-host of the We're Not So Different podcasts, and even more
1:25.6	are as important. She is the author of the recently released
1:29.0	book, The Once and Future Sex, which everyone should go out and buy right now. Eleanor, thank you
1:34.7	so much for joining us. I am ecstatic to be here. Thanks for having me. We're ecstatic to have
1:40.2	you. Can I just say, where's the holiday for fathers? Yeah,
1:44.6	that's true. I mean, real talk. We're getting real here. Sorry, sorry to bring out the hot
1:51.8	take so early, Eleanor. But, you know, that's just how we do it. We keep it real here on American
1:55.9	prestige. So we've invited you to talk about moms and moms in medieval times.
2:02.1	So who are some of the big moms that we should know about if we're thinking about the medieval era?
2:08.1	See, there are so many.
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