HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
September 25th, 2022
A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.
Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1
August 14th, 2022
Peter reads the first chapter of his new book Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy, available from University of Notre Dame Press. Pre-order with the code 14FF20 from undpress.nd.edu, to get a 20% discount!
HoP 391 - Everything is Mine and Nothing - Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism
February 27th, 2022
Justus Lipsius draws on Seneca and other Stoics to counsel peace of mind in the face of political chaos, but also writes a work on how such chaos can be avoided.
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 370 - Ingrid Rowland on Rome in the Renaissance
April 11th, 2021
For our finale of the Italian Renaissance series we're joined by Ingrid Rowland, to speak about art, philosophy, and persecution in Renaissance Rome.
HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art
December 6th, 2020
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architecture.
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.
Bonus Episode - Glenn Adamson on Material Intelligence
August 11th, 2018
Peter's twin brother Glenn Adamson discusses the philosophical implications of craft.
HoP 303 - Don’t Picture This - Iconoclasm
June 17th, 2018
Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ? The dispute leads the Byzantines to ponder the relation between an image and its object.
HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch
March 25th, 2018
The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.
HoP 255 - Andreas Speer on Medieval Aesthetics
June 5th, 2016
Does medieval art tell us anything about medieval theories of aesthetics? Peter finds out from Andreas Speer.
