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Medieval LOLs: The Colloquies of Aelfric Bata
Season 9 Episode 2
All teachers know that the best way for students to learn a language is through swear words, and nobody knew this better than Aelfric Bata, a monk fr…
2 years, 3 months ago
Human Conditions: ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone de Beauvoir
Season 8 Episode 2
Judith Butler joins Adam Shatz to discuss a landmark in feminist thought, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949). Dazzling in its scope, The Seco…
2 years, 3 months ago
On Satire: John Donne's Satires
Season 7 Episode 2
In their second episode, Colin and Clare look at the dense, digressive and often dangerous satires of John Donne and other poets of the 1590s. It’s l…
2 years, 3 months ago
Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
Season 11 Episode 1
In the first episode of their new Close Readings series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Retu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Among the Ancients II: Hesiod
Season 10 Episode 1
Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones kick off their second season of Among the Ancients with a return to the eighth century BCE, exploring the poems of Home…
2 years, 4 months ago
Medieval LOLs: Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
Season 9 Episode 1
Were the Middle Ages funny? In this bonus Close Readings series running throughout this year, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley begin their quest f…
2 years, 4 months ago
Human Conditions: ‘Anti-Semite and Jew’ by Jean-Paul Sartre
Season 8 Episode 1
Judith Butler joins Adam Shatz for the first episode of Human Conditions to look at Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1946 book Anti-Semite and Jew, originally publ…
2 years, 4 months ago
On Satire: 'The Praise of Folly' by Desiderius Erasmus
Season 7 Episode 1
Clare and Colin begin their twelve-part series on satire with the big question: what is satire? Where did it come from? Is it a genre, or more of a s…
2 years, 4 months ago
Introducing: Among the Ancients II
Season 10
For the final introduction to next year’s full Close Readings programme, Emily Wilson, celebrated classicist and translator of Homer’s Iliad and Odys…
2 years, 4 months ago
Introducing: On Satire
Season 7
In the first of three introductions to our full 2024 Close Readings programme, starting in January, Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell present their ser…
2 years, 4 months ago