Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStefan Rinke, "Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 180
Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goa…
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Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 44
Heidi Hausse's book The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany (Manchester University Press, 2023) uses amputation …
3 years ago
"Companionable Thinking: Spenser With..." Spencer Studies, Volume 37 (2023)
Episode 235
Volume 37 of Spenser Studies is a special issue on the theme of “Companionable Thinking: Spenser With.” As guest editors of this collection of essays…
3 years ago
Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 68
The doctrine of the modern law of the sea is commonly believed to have developed in Renaissance Europe. The role of Islamic law of the sea and custom…
3 years ago
Liana Saif et al., "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice" (Brill, 2020)
Episode 307
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice (Brill, 2020) brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disc…
3 years ago
Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 230
Today’s guest is Kevin Killeen whose new monograph, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable, has …
3 years, 1 month ago
Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 1335
The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spr…
3 years, 1 month ago
Nicole Bauer, "Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 114
Between September 1793 and July 1794, the French politicians and even the general public seemed positively overcome by the urge to denounce their pee…
3 years, 1 month ago
Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 142
Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735 (Brill, 2022) does something that no one has ever done before: collect just about every West…
3 years, 1 month ago
David Tavárez, "Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Episode 43
Professor David Tavárez, historian and linguistic anthropologist, is Professor of Anthropology and at Vassar College. He is a specialist in Nahuatl a…
3 years, 1 month ago