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Back to SearchMedieval Monastic Humanism | Episode LXXIII
Episode 73
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Love for Cicero, attention to rhetorical form, use of pagan wisdom for political thought - these are all hallmarks of the Renaissance…
1 year, 10 months ago
How to Learn Like Thomas Aquinas | Episode LXXII
Episode 72
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Thomas Aquinas is also known as the "Angelic Doctor," but he was quite capable of coming down from the heavens and getting practical.…
1 year, 10 months ago
Pagans and Christians, Glory and Piety | Episode LXXI
Episode 71
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The things of God belong to a heavenly kingdom. But politics is taken up with what is earthly. Surely, therefore, Christians should k…
1 year, 11 months ago
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 …
1 year, 11 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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 …
2 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago