Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 38
While scholars of ancient Mediterranean literature have focused their efforts heavily on explaining why authors would write pseudonymously or anonymo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Matthew Fuhrmann, "Influence without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 124
How does nuclear technology influence international relations? While many books focus on countries armed with nuclear weapons, this volume puts the s…
1 year, 3 months ago
Martha Bayless, "Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 93
The people of early England (c. 450–1100 CE) enjoyed numerous kinds of entertainment, recreation and pleasure, but the scattered records of such thin…
1 year, 3 months ago
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 242
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Kristin Olbertson is the f…
1 year, 3 months ago
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 515
Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? Late Soviet Britain: Why Ma…
1 year, 3 months ago
John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 22
There are many books giving advice about research methods on the market, but The Art and Craft of Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2019) is the first monogr…
1 year, 3 months ago
Caroline Dunn, "Ladies-in-waiting in Medieval England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 91
Caroline Dunn joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England (Cambridge UP, 2025), which examines female attendan…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 90
Jana Byars talks to Ellen Arnold about Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, 300 - 1100 (Cambridge UP, 2024). Fishermen, …
1 year, 4 months ago
Matthew Hughes, "Britain's Pacification of Palestine" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 293
In this complete military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Britain's Pacification of Palestine (Cambridge UP, 2019)…
1 year, 4 months ago
Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 267
In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in …
1 year, 4 months ago