Podcast Episodes

HoP 409 - One to Rule Them All - Jean Bodin

Episode 409

The polymath Jean Bodin produces a pioneering theory of political sovereignty along the way to defending the absolute power of the French king.

3 years, 3 months ago

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HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots

Episode 408

Protestant French thinkers like François Hotman and Theodore Beza propose a radical political philosophy: the king rules at the pleasure of his subje…

3 years, 4 months ago

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HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration

Episode 410

An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and in the thought of early modern thinkers like Lock…

3 years, 4 months ago

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HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France

Episode 407

Even as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled case for freedom of conscience… apart from Sebastian…

3 years, 5 months ago

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HoP 405 - Divide and Conquer - the Spread of Ramism

Episode 404

The methods of Peter Ramus sweep across Europe, winning adherents and facing stiff opposition in equal measure.

3 years, 5 months ago

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HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus

Episode 406

A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.

3 years, 5 months ago

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HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus

Episode 403

Peter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and simpler approach to philosophy.

3 years, 6 months ago

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Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1

Episode 405

Peter reads the first chapter of his new book Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy, available from University of Not…

3 years, 7 months ago

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HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France

Episode 402

Challenges to Galenic medical orthodoxy from natural philosophy: Jean Fernel with his idea of the human’s “total substance,” and the Paracelsans.

3 years, 7 months ago

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HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France

Episode 401

Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.

3 years, 8 months ago

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