Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTheresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)
Episode 32
Famous today for the shops lining its sloped street, the Ponte Vecchio is the last premodern bridge spanning the Arno River at Florence and one of th…
1 year, 10 months ago
Christian Bailey, "German Jews in Love: A History" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 588
German Jews in Love: A History (Stanford UP, 2022) explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives, from the birth of the German Empire in t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 88
In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast calle…
1 year, 10 months ago
Richard Davenport-Hines, "History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft" (William Collins, 2024)
Episode 1525
Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal's College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined h…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Episode 1523
The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Kenny Cupers traces the rise of plan…
1 year, 10 months ago
Katya Motyl, "Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 1520
In Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934 (University of Chicago Press, 2024) historian Dr. Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of…
1 year, 10 months ago
David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Episode 83
David J Collins, SJ joins Jana Byars to talk about Disenchanting Albert the Great: the Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician (Penn State Press, 2…
1 year, 10 months ago
Lucy Noakes, "Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 255
Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities…
1 year, 10 months ago
Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Episode 324
Today, I am excited to talk to Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz about the new collection of essays they have edited. Milton’s Moving Bodies (No…
1 year, 10 months ago
Henri Colt, "Becoming Modigliani" (Rake Press, 2024)
Episode 161
Becoming Modigliani (Rake Press, 2024) is a comprehensive biography that delves into the troubled life of the Jewish-Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani…
1 year, 10 months ago