HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler
April 24th, 2022
Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.
HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe
April 10th, 2022
Responses to Copernicus in the 16th century, culminating with the master of astral observation Tycho Brahe.
HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism
March 12th, 2022
John Sellars returns to the podcast to discuss Lipsius' work on Seneca and the early modern Neo-Stoic movement.
HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther
September 12th, 2021
How radical was Luther? We find out from Lyndal Roper, who also discusses Luther and the Peasants' War, sexuality, anti-semitism, and the visual arts.
HoP 378 - Faith, No More - Martin Luther
August 1st, 2021
How Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone and his attack on the Church relate to the history of philosophy.
HoP 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
July 12th, 2020
Tommaso Campanella’s “The City of the Sun” and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life politics.
HoP 341 - True Romance - Theories of Love
January 26th, 2020
Ficino describes a “Platonic” love purified of sexuality, prompting a debate carried on by Pico della Mirandola, Pietro Bembo, and Tullia d’Aragona.
HoP 315 - Wiser Than Men - Gender in Byzantium
December 30th, 2018
The role of women in Byzantine society and the complex attitudes surrounding eunuchs: did they make up a “third gender”?
HoP 294 - Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer
January 28th, 2018
Peter is joined by Isabel Davis to discuss marriage, sex and chastity in Chaucer, focusing on the Wife of Bath's speech.
HoP 293 - The Good Wife - Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages
January 14th, 2018
Medieval attitudes towards homosexuality, sex and chastity, and the status of women. Authors discussed include Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Chaucer.
