Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHenry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 126
Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail?
Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in Engl…
2 years, 1 month ago
Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 154
In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the ear…
2 years, 1 month ago
Genji Yasuhira, "Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Episode 36
Even in adversity, Catholics exercised considerable agency in post-Reformation Utrecht. Through the political practices of repression and toleration,…
2 years, 1 month ago
Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 133
Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Harry McCarthy provides a new appro…
2 years, 1 month ago
Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 72
In the early modern era, seemingly impossible stories of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft were common and believable. The important question of…
2 years, 1 month ago
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 190
Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern Indi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 91
In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were record…
2 years, 1 month ago
Bronagh Ann McShane, "Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
Episode 64
Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) by Dr. Bronagh Ann McShane investigates…
2 years, 1 month ago
Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Episode 71
Joseph A. Skloot joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, First Impressions: Sefer hasimdim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing (Brandeis UP, 2023).…
2 years, 2 months ago
Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
Episode 129
The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global conflict called the Seven Year’s War, though it isn’t …
2 years, 2 months ago