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Back to SearchHoP 373 - Lords of Language - Northern Humanism
Episode 373
Rudolph Agricola, Juan Luis Vives and other humanist scholars spread the study of classical antiquity across Europe and mock the technicalities of sc…
5 years, 4 months ago
HoP 372 - Strong, Silent Type - the Printing Press
Episode 372
The impact of the printing press on the history of philosophy, and its role in helping to trigger the Reformation.
5 years, 4 months ago
HoP 371 - European Disunion - Introduction to the Reformation
Episode 371
How humanism and scholasticism came together with the Protestant Reformation to create the philosophy of 15-16th century Europe.
5 years, 5 months ago
HoP 370 - Ingrid Rowland on Rome in the Renaissance
Episode 370
For our finale of the Italian Renaissance series we're joined by Ingrid Rowland, to speak about art, philosophy, and persecution in Renaissance Rome.
5 years, 5 months ago
HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance
Episode 369
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
5 years, 6 months ago
HoP 368 - Boundless Enthusiasm - Giordano Bruno
Episode 368
Giordano Bruno’s stunning vision of an infinite universe with infinite worlds, and his own untimely end.
5 years, 6 months ago
HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
Episode 367
Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
5 years, 7 months ago
HoP 366 - The Men Who Saw Tomorrow - Renaissance Magic and Astrology
Episode 366
Ficino, Pico, Cardano, and other Renaissance thinkers debate whether astrology and magic are legitimate sciences with a foundation in natural philoso…
5 years, 7 months ago
HoP 365 - Spirits in the Material World - Telesio and Campanella on Nature
Episode 364
Was the natural philosophy of Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella the first modern physical theory?
5 years, 8 months ago
HoP 364 - Guido Giglioni on Renaissance Medicine
Episode 365
An interview with Guido Giglioni, who speaks to us about the sources and philosophical implications of medical works of the Renaissance.
5 years, 8 months ago