Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchApocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture
Season 1 Episode 32
Historian John Jeffries Martin traces narratives of the Apocalypse over the last 500 years in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions in his new…
3 years, 6 months ago
Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 189
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Elizabeth Kelly Gray's book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America,…
3 years, 6 months ago
Igor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)
Episode 352
Maimonideanism, the intellectual culture inspired by Maimonides’ writings, has received much recent attention. Yet a central aspect of Maimonideanism…
3 years, 6 months ago
Shaping Civilisations: The Sea in Asian History
Episode 76
The ocean is more connective device than barrier, bringing together diverse topics, time-periods and geographies. It has linked and connected the var…
3 years, 6 months ago
Stealing the Canon: Who Should Be In and Who Should Be Out?
Episode 23
Literary canons have come under fire for perpetuating privilege and exclusion. But some artists — including William Shakespeare and Hamilton’s Lin-Ma…
3 years, 6 months ago
Podcast Series: Hell on Earth--The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism
Episode 19
Hell on Earth: The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism is a new 10-part series from the creators of Hell of Presidents — one of Entertai…
3 years, 6 months ago
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 23
Wolfgang Muller, Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215- 1517 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). From the establishment of a coherent doctr…
3 years, 6 months ago
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 170
We have been ruled long enough. It is time to govern ourselves. If we are to get past the Constitution and all systems based on constitutions, we nee…
3 years, 6 months ago
Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 28
Stuart Carroll's Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2023) transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 an…
3 years, 6 months ago
Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
Season 1 Episode 18
Carlos Eire, author of The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila: A Biography (2019) and professor of medieval and early modern European history and religion…
3 years, 6 months ago