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Petrarch's Little Dark Age | Episode LXX

Episode 70

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Imagine that you are the leading figure in a movement to renew the study and appreciation of classical literature, but you have come …

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Liberal Arts for Liberal Hearts | Episode LXIX

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Are the liberal arts for everyone? We tend to think that the liberal arts can be helpful and edifying for anyone. But even amidst the…

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What is Tyranny? | Episode LXVIII

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We think we know what a "republic" is, but what did the Romans mean with their phrase "res publica"? What about the Italian humanists…

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The Renaissance Politics of Virtue | Episode LXVII

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A pandemic. A changing climate. A hopelessly divided country. Christianity threatened by Islam. Universities completely out of touch …

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Christine de Pizan | Episode LXVI

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The poet of Joan of Arc, and a notable example of a female writer in the premodern period, Christine de Pizan took a turn at the popu…

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Your Children Are Weak | Episode LXV

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In his essay "On Educating Children," a follow-up to his denunciation of pedantry, Michel de Montaigne warns that "natural affection …

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The Art of Language Teaching, feat. Tim Griffith | Episode LXIV

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When Tim Griffith was coaching soccer and reading ancient Roman rhetorical theory, he realized he had stumbled across a pedagogical g…

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Republican Education, feat. Clifford Humphrey | Episode LXIII

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We threw off the monarchy... now what? Having established a republic on American soil, the Founding Fathers were faced with the quest…

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Mediocrity Versus Glory in the Renaissance | Episode LXII

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Leonardo Bruni was the titan of Renaissance historians and a prolific humanist. In a long letter to an aristocratic Italian woman, Ba…

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Does Education Improve the Soul? | Episode LXI

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Michel de Montaigne was a native Latin speaker in modern Europe and yet a great innovator in French letters; among other things, he i…

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