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    New Books in Early Modern History

    New Books in Early Modern History

    New Books in Early Modern History

    ratings:
    Length:
    1110 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Interviews with scholars of the Early Modern World about the new books
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 1110 episodes

    Title

    Lucy Barnhouse, "Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

    Lucy Barnhouse of Arkansas State University talks with Jana Byars about her new book, H...

    69 minutes
    		May 07, 2024

    Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)

    In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de...

    62 minutes
    		May 05, 2024

    Nancy M. Martin, "Mirabai: The Making of a Saint" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering ...

    47 minutes
    		May 02, 2024

    Victoria Sparey, "Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture" (Manchester UP, 2024)

    Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Ea...

    57 minutes
    		Apr 30, 2024

    Sheilagh Ogilvie, "The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis" (Princeton UP, 2019)

    Guilds were prominent in medieval and early modern Europe, but their economic role has ...

    60 minutes
    		Apr 29, 2024

    Sarah A. Bendall, "Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

    In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramati...

    51 minutes
    		Apr 28, 2024

    Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022)

    The Pacific Ocean is twice the size of the Atlantic, and while humans have been travers...

    68 minutes
    		Apr 27, 2024

    Nicholas Popper, "The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more ...

    62 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024

    Juliet B. Wiersema, "The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands" (U Texas Press, 2024)

    During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater ...

    56 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024

    Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"

    What does it mean to be human? What do we know about the true history of humankind? In ...

    68 minutes
    		Apr 26, 2024