Episodes

Sunday Nov 12, 2023
HoP 432 - If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art - John Dee
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Science, intrigue, exploration, angelic seances! It's the life and thought of Elizabethan mathematician and magician John Dee.

Sunday Oct 01, 2023
HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne Lock.

Sunday Jul 17, 2022
HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.

Sunday Jun 05, 2022
HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
A Renaissance queen supports philosophical humanism and produces literary works on spirituality, love, and the soul.

Sunday Jun 20, 2021
HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.

Sunday Jun 06, 2021
HoP 374 - Opposites Attract - Nicholas of Cusa
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.

Sunday Feb 23, 2020
HoP 343 - As Far as East from West - Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Jewish philosophers in Renaissance Italy, focusing on Leone Ebreo’s Dialogues of Love, the Averroism of Elijah del Medigo, and Italian Kabbalah.

Sunday Apr 21, 2019
HoP 323 - Through His Works You Shall Know Him - Palamas and Hesychasm
Sunday Apr 21, 2019
Sunday Apr 21, 2019
Gregory Palamas and the controversy over his teaching that we can go beyond human reason by grasping God through his activities or “energies”.

Sunday Feb 11, 2018
HoP 295 - The Most Christian Doctor - Jean Gerson
Sunday Feb 11, 2018
Sunday Feb 11, 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.

Sunday Dec 17, 2017
HoP 291 - Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle - English Mysticism
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Julian of Norwich’s Shewings and the Cloud of Unknowing lay out challenging paths to knowledge of, and union with, God.

Sunday Nov 05, 2017
HoP 288 - Men in Black - The German Dominicans
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
Dietrich of Freiberg, Berthold of Moosburg, John Tauler and Henry Suso explore Neoplatonism and mysticism.

Sunday Oct 22, 2017
HoP 287 - Down to the Ground - Meister Eckhart
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
The scholastic and mystic Meister Eckhart sets out his daring speculations about God and humankind in both Latin and German.

Sunday Dec 18, 2016
HoP 267 - After Virtue - Marguerite Porete
Sunday Dec 18, 2016
Sunday Dec 18, 2016
Marguerite Porete is put to death for her exploration of the love of God, The Mirror of Simple Souls.