Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGregory Soderberg, "John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion" (Wipf & Stock, 2024)
Episode 295
Shallow and quickly outdated Christian worship practices have left many searching for something with deeper roots. Many churches have rediscovered th…
1 year, 4 months ago
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 242
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Kristin Olbertson is the f…
1 year, 4 months ago
Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 137
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa (Harvard UP, 2023) is a revelatory new account of the magus―the learned magician―and his place in the…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 38
Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within pol…
1 year, 4 months ago
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 579
An astonishing variety of murals greet visitors to the temples and palaces of southern India. Beautiful in execution and extensive in scope, murals p…
1 year, 5 months ago
John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Episode 96
In the early modern period, both legal and illegal maritime predation was a common occurrence, but the expansion of European maritime empires exacerb…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 113
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed…
1 year, 5 months ago
Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Episode 95
Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negot…
1 year, 5 months ago
Noa Shashar, "The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Episode 1543
In The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648 - 1850 (Brandeis UP, 2024), Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in the early mode…
1 year, 5 months ago
Lindsay O'Neill, "The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey Into and Out of Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Episode 207
In 1716 two princes from Mpfumo—what is today Maputo, the capital of Mozambique—boarded a ship licensed by the East India Company bound for England. …
1 year, 5 months ago