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Back to SearchPetrarch'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 …
1 year, 10 months ago
Liberal Arts for Liberal Hearts | Episode LXIX
Episode 69
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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…
1 year, 10 months ago
What is Tyranny? | Episode LXVIII
Episode 68
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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…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Renaissance Politics of Virtue | Episode LXVII
Episode 67
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A pandemic. A changing climate. A hopelessly divided country. Christianity threatened by Islam. Universities completely out of touch …
1 year, 11 months ago
Christine de Pizan | Episode LXVI
Episode 66
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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…
2 years ago
Your Children Are Weak | Episode LXV
Episode 65
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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 …
2 years ago
The Art of Language Teaching, feat. Tim Griffith | Episode LXIV
Episode 64
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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…
2 years, 1 month ago
Republican Education, feat. Clifford Humphrey | Episode LXIII
Episode 63
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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…
2 years, 1 month ago
Mediocrity Versus Glory in the Renaissance | Episode LXII
Episode 62
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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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Does Education Improve the Soul? | Episode LXI
Episode 61
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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…
2 years, 2 months ago