
“When is a book not just a book? Well, as almost any cultural historian can tell you, a book is almost never just a book…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Scott McLaren.For further reading:Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books...
Apr 5, 2021
2 min

“In the nineteenth century, an ever-increasing volume of political and religious debates played out in the public sphere of printed books and journals. At the same time, more and more books were being translated and adapted for ever-expanding audiences...
Mar 29, 2021
3 min

“This story is about one of the earliest models to appear on the printed page: the sixteenth-century German peasant…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.For further reading:Sky Michael Johnston. “Printing the Weather: Knowledge,...
Mar 22, 2021
2 min

“Nicholas Neesbett was an experienced healer in fifteenth-century England…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Melissa Reynolds.For further reading:Melissa Reynolds. “The Sururgia of Nicholas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England.”...
Mar 15, 2021
2 min

“Almost every book from the fourteenth century onwards was made of paper, and every letter sent was a paper sheet folded. Early modern Europe was a paper age…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Daniel Bellingradt.For further reading:The Paper Trade in...
Mar 8, 2021
3 min

This special episode combines all the stories from Season 5…“Billy Graham: Emblem of American Evangelicalism” – Dr. Aaron Griffith, Assistant Professor of History at Sattler College“Katharina von Bora: Paragon of the Protestant Household” – Dr. Sky...
Mar 1, 2021
28 min

“In 1984, Audre Lorde travelled to Berlin…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil.An extended version of this story is available on the podcast website.For further reading:Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a...
Feb 22, 2021
4 min

“Adolphe Crémieux was the first Jewish minister in France and, in fact, in Europe…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Noëmie Duhaut.For further reading:Noëmie Duhaut, “L’Alliance israélite universelle, les Juifs roumains et l’idée d’Europe,” Archives...
Feb 15, 2021
3 min

“Katharina von Bora was an iconic representative of the new household piety championed by her husband, Martin Luther…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.For further reading:Martin Treu, "Katharina von Bora, the Woman at Luther's...
Feb 8, 2021
3 min

“In 1999, the BBC designated Bob Marley’s anthem, ‘One Love,’ the song of millennium…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Jeremy Prestholdt.For further reading:Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden by Jeremy Prestholdt...
Feb 1, 2021
3 min
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