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Back to SearchJoseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Episode 71
Joseph A. Skloot joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, First Impressions: Sefer hasimdim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing (Brandeis UP, 2023).…
2 years, 4 months ago
Alistair Moffat, "The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History" (Birlinn, 2024)
Episode 125
In The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History (Birlinn, 2024) by Alistair Moffat, the chronicle begins millions of years ago, with the dram…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ramón Espejo, "The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues" (Legenda, 2024)
Episode 132
Ramón Espejo's book The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues (Legenda, 2024) delves into the…
2 years, 4 months ago
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 72
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they coul…
2 years, 4 months ago
Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)
Episode 3
Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On Crusade, a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Matthew Kadane, "The Enlightenment and Original Sin" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 66
Matthew Kadane, Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, talks about his just new book, The Enlightenment and Original Sin (Univers…
2 years, 4 months ago
Polo B. Moji, "Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 131
Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Routledge, 2022) approaches the study of AfroEurope…
2 years, 4 months ago
Eileen M. Hunt, "The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 719
The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is the concluding text in political theorist Eileen…
2 years, 4 months ago
Iris Moon, "Melancholy Wedgwood" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 254
Melancholy Wedgwood (MIT Press, 2024) is an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship…
2 years, 5 months ago
Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 68
The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration.
Helen J. Nicholson's book Wom…
2 years, 5 months ago