Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGregory Soderberg, "John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion" (Wipf & Stock, 2024)
Episode 295
Shallow and quickly outdated Christian worship practices have left many searching for something with deeper roots. Many churches have rediscovered th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 515
Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? Late Soviet Britain: Why Ma…
1 year, 7 months ago
Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 137
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa (Harvard UP, 2023) is a revelatory new account of the magus―the learned magician―and his place in the…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 615
In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 38
Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within pol…
1 year, 7 months ago
Deborah Reed-Donahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 408
Sideways Migration: Being French in London (Routledge, 2025) examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it …
1 year, 8 months ago
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 90
Jana Byars talks to Ellen Arnold about Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, 300 - 1100 (Cambridge UP, 2024). Fishermen, …
1 year, 8 months ago
Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Episode 95
Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negot…
1 year, 8 months ago
Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023)
Episode 334
Beowulf is the product of a profoundly religious imagination, but the significance of the poem’s Christianity has been downplayed or denied altogethe…
1 year, 8 months ago
Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 273
For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though more recent treatments of The Canterbury Tales’ lively and often risqué style…
1 year, 8 months ago