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Back to SearchCharmian Mansell, "Female Servants in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 79
Charmian Mansell joins Jana Byars to talk about Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2024).
What was it like to be a wom…
1 year, 10 months ago
Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Episode 158
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A …
1 year, 10 months ago
Joseph Harley, "At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 133
At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850 (Manchester UP, 2024) by Dr. Joseph Harley opens the doors to …
1 year, 10 months ago
Susan Doran, "From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 1481
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Sc…
1 year, 10 months ago
Michael Livingston, "Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 242
Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking study by Michael Livingston…
1 year, 10 months ago
Caroline Burt and Richard Partington, "Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State" (Faber & Faber, 2024)
Episode 1480
Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State (Faber & Faber, 2024) offers a lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the stat…
1 year, 10 months ago
Whitney Barlow Robles, "Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 71
Dive into the world of animals with Whitney Barlow Robles in her captivating new book, Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History (Yale UP, 20…
1 year, 10 months ago
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 315
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research r…
1 year, 10 months ago
Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 12
In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of th…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 223
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-…
1 year, 11 months ago