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Back to SearchGabrielle Thomas, "The Problem of the Devil in Cappadocian Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1556
In The Problem of the Devil in Cappadocian Thought (Cambridge UP, 2026), Gabrielle Thomas questions the popular assumption that the devil served as…
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Han Hsien Liew, "Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn Al-Jawzi's Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1283
Han Hsien Liew’s fascinating and insightful new book, Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Jawzi’s Political Thought (Cambridge Univer…
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Jonathan Swift and David Womersley ed., "Gulliver's Travels: Cambridge Anniversary Edition" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1282
Gulliver's Travels is one of the landmarks of world literature. Gulliver's adventures with the tiny but spirited Lilliputians, the giant inhabitants …
1 month ago
Agnes Mueller, "Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1281
In Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures (Cambridge UP, 2026), analysing the past two decades of literature on Holocaust memory and migr…
1 month ago
Valeria Vázquez Guevara, "Truth Commissions and International Law: Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1280
Truth Commissions and International Law: Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority (Cambridge University Press, 2026) examines how truth commissions …
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Richard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1279
Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow off…
1 month, 1 week ago
Encore - Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 4
Once upon a time, or so we’ve been told, medical ethics were confined to the patient-doctor relationship. As long as doctors were true to their Hippo…
1 month, 1 week ago
Speech and the City
Episode 1277
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Yaron Matras about his new book Speech and the City.
In this timely bo…
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Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1276
Ancient apologetics is usually treated as a literary genre or a branch of early theology. This Element offers a different account. It argues that man…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Robin Whelan, "Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1275
How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? Many scholars have traced the Christianization of the Roman world in the centuries following …
1 month, 2 weeks ago