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.
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HoP 295 - The Most Christian Doctor - Jean Gerson
February 11th, 2018
Jean Gerson’s role in the political disputes of his day, the spread of lay devotion and affective mysticism, and the debate over the Romance of the Rose initiated by Christine de Pizan.
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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.
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HoP 292 - Say it With Poetry - Chaucer and Langland
December 31st, 2017
Philosophical themes in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” as well as Langland’s “Piers Plowman.”
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HoP 268 - To Hell and Back - Dante Alighieri
January 1st, 2017
Italy’s greatest poet Dante Alighieri was also a philosopher, as we learn from his Convivio and of course the Divine Comedy.
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HoP 265 - Time of the Signs - the Fourteenth Century
November 20th, 2016
An introduction to philosophy in the 14th century, focusing on two big ideas: nominalism and voluntarism.
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HoP 254 - Love, Reign Over Me - The Romance of the Rose
May 22nd, 2016
Sex, reason, and religion in Jean de Meun’s completion of an allegory of courtly love, the Roman de la Rose.
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