Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJulie Singer, "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 2369
A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature.
Medieval literature is full of strange moments wh…
1 year, 3 months ago
Andrew Hartman, "Karl Marx in America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 2370
Karl Marx in America (University of Chicago Press, 2025), by Andrew Hartman
To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People…
1 year, 3 months ago
Enrique Fernández and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, "Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2024)
Episode 2368
Enrique Fernández and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, eds. Death and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2024). In premodern Europe, the gender identity of…
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Elisabeth Åsbrink, "1947: Where Now Begins" (Other Press, 2019)
Episode 2367
An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her pers…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jonathan Teubner, "Charity After Augustine: Solidarity, Conflict, and the Practices of Charity in the Latin West" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 2366
Jonathan Teubner, Charity After Augustine: Solidarity, Conflict, and the Practices of Charity in the Latin West (Oxford UP, 2025)
Through a unique bl…
1 year, 4 months ago
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2365
Today I’m speaking with Bernd Roeck about his book, The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance (Princeton University Press, 2025). Be…
1 year, 4 months ago
Alice Hunt, "Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
Episode 2364
Alice Hunt’s Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade 1649-1650 (Faber and Faber, 2024) takes a chronological look at the current events, personaliti…
1 year, 4 months ago
Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe" (OneWorld, 2024)
Episode 2363
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning centuries of scholastic presumption. A new age was coming into v…
1 year, 4 months ago
Carolin Duttlinger, "Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 2362
Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford (UK) and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre…
1 year, 4 months ago
Elise Franklin "Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France" (University of Nebraska Press, 2024)
Episode 2361
Today’s episode is a conversation with Dr. Elise Franklin whose first book, Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the We…
1 year, 4 months ago