Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael Engel, "Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism: Investigating the Human Intellect" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Episode 157
Elijah Del Medigo (1458-1493) was a Jewish Aristotelian philosopher living in Padua, whose work influenced many of the leading philosophers of the ea…
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Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronage, Slave Resistance, and More!
Episode 323
Today's episode of "New Books in African American Studies" is special. Why, you might ask? Because today's episode marks my 100th episode on the NBN!…
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Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery" (Luath Press, 2022)
Episode 11
Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery (Luath Press, 2022) by Kate Phillips traces the story of how and why thousands of Scots made money from …
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Thomas Donald Conlan, "Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook" (Hackett, 2022)
Episode 90
In addition to providing excerpts from classic tales of Japan’s warrior past, Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471-1877: A Sourcebook (Hacke…
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Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 173
Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, works of botany underwent a radical change in the English book trade. A genre that was on…
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Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 18
Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly policed, t…
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Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 172
In Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (Routledge, 2021), Ruben Espinosa explores the works of the early modern dramatist in the context of Trump-era…
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Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 278
In his dense yet delightful new book Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia (University of California Pre…
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Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
Episode 19
Black Christianity in America has long been studied as a blend of indigenous African and Protestant elements. Jeroen Dewulf redirects the conversatio…
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Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 87
Information is everywhere. We live in an “Information” Society. We can get more of it faster, quicker, and in more different shapes and sizes than at…
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