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Let's explore the complex tradition of Hermeticism—an esoteric philosophy rooted in Hellenistic Egypt and attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus. Exploring its metaphysical teachings, spiritual practices such as alchemy, astrology, and ritual magic, and its profound influence on Renaissance thinkers, Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and modern occultism, this video offers an accessible yet academically grounded journey through one of the most enduring currents in Western esoteric thought. Perfect for those curious about the deeper layers of magic, mysticism, and spiritual transformation.CONNECT & SUPPORT

L'invitée: Elisabeth Lusset, chargée de recherche au CNRS F. Murray Abraham, Michael Lonsdale, Sean Connery, Umberto Eco et Jean-Jacques Annaud sur le tournage du Nom de la Rose Le film: Le Nom de la Rose de Jean-Jacques Annaud (1986)La discussion:Présentation générale et résumé du film (1:30)L'origine du projet et le rôle des médiévistes comme conseillers historiques: Jacques Le Goff, Jean-Claude Schmitt, Michel Pastoureau, Françoise Piponnier…(5:45)Le casting et le choix discuté de Sean Connery (10:40)Les décors et les inspirations pour l'abbaye, mélange de différents sites: Eberbach, Rocca di San Leo, Sagra di San Michele, Castel del Monte… (12:20)Pourquoi une statue baroque dans un film médiéval ? (14:15)La réception critique et publique du film (15:40)Un roman d'Umberto Eco presque impossible à mettre à l'écran (17:55)La réaction furieuse de Jacques le Goff à la vision du film, et l'écart ou la tension entre cinéastes et historiens (21:20)Une représentation du Moyen âge en partie juste, mais largement fantasmée (22:50)La mise en scène d'un monastère bénédictin, et de ses rapports avec les paysans montrés comme misérables et exploités (24:25)Le discours idéologique ou politique du film, et l'Église dépeinte comme instance de domination (26:00)L'origine des franciscains, et des accusations d'hérésie portées contre certains ordres ou groupes religieux: Dolciniens, Spirituels… (31:50) et la mise en scène des affrontements religieux dans le film (37:20)La représentation de la vie monastique et la crainte du scandale face aux transgressions (38:20)Enquêtes, autopsies et poisons au Moyen âge (41:00)Peut-on torturer un moine médiéval, comme le suggère Bernardo Gui dans le film ? (43:40)La question de l'abstinence des clercs (45:40)L'anglais comme équivalent du latin dans le film, et le jeu sur les origines géographiques des personnages, avec le monastère comme lieu d'accueil (46:40)Livres, scriptorium, bibliothèques (49:35)Un Moyen âge dépeint sous des couleurs sombres, issu d'un imaginaire gothique / romantique: bossu, procès d'une « sorcière »… (52:33)Guillaume de Baskerville comme incarnation du versant positif, rationnel, du monde médiéval, par opposition au fanatisme de l'inquisiteur (moins sanguinaire dans la réalité) et du bibliothécaire (54:20)Les scènes les plus intéressantes d'un point de vue pédagogique ou pour ce qu'elles révèlent de la vision contemporaine du Moyen âge (55:40)Les références et conseils de lecture :Sur le film :– Jean-Jacques Annaud, Une vie pour le cinéma, entretiens avec M.-F. Leclère, Paris, Grasset, 2018– Priska Morrissey, Historiens et Cinéastes : rencontre de deux écritures, Paris, l'Harmattan, coll. « Champs visuels », 2004.– Jacques Le Goff, Une vie pour l'histoire: entretiens avec Marc Heurgon, Paris, La Découverte, 1996.– Michel Pastoureau, « La collaboration historique au cinéma: entretien avec Michel Pastoureau », Revue de l'Association historique des élèves du lycée Henri-IV : L'émoi de l'histoire, 21, tome 1, printemps 2000, p. 6-23.En histoire médiévale, pour l'éclairer :– “Le cloître et la prison”: webdocumentaire sur l'enfermement à Clairvaux– François Amy de la Bretèque, L'Imaginaire médiéval dans le cinéma occidental, Paris, Champion, 2004.– Franck Collard, Le Crime de poison au Moyen Âge, Paris, PUF (« Le nœud gordien »), 2003.– Faustine Harang, La torture au Moyen âge, Paris, PUF, 2018.– Claude Gauvard, Condamner à mort au Moyen âge, Paris, PUF, 2018.– Elisabeth Lusset, Crime, châtiment et grâce dans les monastères au Moyen Âge (XIIe-XVe siècle), Turnhout, Brepols, 2017.– Sophie Page, Magic in the Cloister. Pious Motives, Illicit Interests and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe, University Park (PA), The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

William Gallois joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, published by The Pennsylvania State University Press in 2024. Qayrawān: The Amuletic City investigates the fascinating history of the Tunisian city of Qayrawān, which in the last years of the nineteenth century found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the city's Great Mosque, these monumental artworks were only visible for about fifty years, from the 1880s through the 1930s. This book investigates the fascinating history of who created these outdoor paintings and why. Using visual archaeological methods, Qayrawān highlights the ‘unknown artist' as an actor of ‘unnoticed agency' and a practitioner of living traditional arts. Locating pictorial records of the murals from the backdrops of photographs, postcards, and other forms of European ephemera, Gallois identifies a form of religious painting that transposed traditional aesthetic forms such as house decoration, embroidery, and tattooing―which lay exclusively within the domains of women―onto the body of a conquered city. Gallois argues that these works were created by women as a form of “emergency art,” intended to offer amuletic protection for the community, and demonstrates how they differ markedly from “classical” Islamic antecedents and modern modes of Arab cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. The book challenges tacit assumptions of foreign categories and standards of aesthetics imposed upon Islamic and African art. It contributes to further explorations of the exploration of the ways in which Islam was interwoven with preexisting cultures and forms of expression, particularly in calling for a continued reimagining of the study of “Islamic art.” The book makes welcome contributions to Islamic, African, and Middle Eastern studies, particularly in relation to colonial and art histories. It will be welcomed by scholars of Islamic Studies, African Studies, and Art History. William Gallois is Professor of the Islamic Mediterranean in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, in England. In addition to Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, Prof Gallois is the author of A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony (2013) and The Administration of Sickness (2008), among other works. Yaseen Christian Andrewsen is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, specialising in Islamic intellectual history in West Africa focusing on issues in Sufism, theology, renewal, and authority. Yaseen is a co-host for the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast. He can be reached by email at: christian.andrewsen@pmb.ox.ac.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

William Gallois joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, published by The Pennsylvania State University Press in 2024. Qayrawān: The Amuletic City investigates the fascinating history of the Tunisian city of Qayrawān, which in the last years of the nineteenth century found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the city's Great Mosque, these monumental artworks were only visible for about fifty years, from the 1880s through the 1930s. This book investigates the fascinating history of who created these outdoor paintings and why. Using visual archaeological methods, Qayrawān highlights the ‘unknown artist' as an actor of ‘unnoticed agency' and a practitioner of living traditional arts. Locating pictorial records of the murals from the backdrops of photographs, postcards, and other forms of European ephemera, Gallois identifies a form of religious painting that transposed traditional aesthetic forms such as house decoration, embroidery, and tattooing―which lay exclusively within the domains of women―onto the body of a conquered city. Gallois argues that these works were created by women as a form of “emergency art,” intended to offer amuletic protection for the community, and demonstrates how they differ markedly from “classical” Islamic antecedents and modern modes of Arab cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. The book challenges tacit assumptions of foreign categories and standards of aesthetics imposed upon Islamic and African art. It contributes to further explorations of the exploration of the ways in which Islam was interwoven with preexisting cultures and forms of expression, particularly in calling for a continued reimagining of the study of “Islamic art.” The book makes welcome contributions to Islamic, African, and Middle Eastern studies, particularly in relation to colonial and art histories. It will be welcomed by scholars of Islamic Studies, African Studies, and Art History. William Gallois is Professor of the Islamic Mediterranean in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, in England. In addition to Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, Prof Gallois is the author of A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony (2013) and The Administration of Sickness (2008), among other works. Yaseen Christian Andrewsen is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, specialising in Islamic intellectual history in West Africa focusing on issues in Sufism, theology, renewal, and authority. Yaseen is a co-host for the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast. He can be reached by email at: christian.andrewsen@pmb.ox.ac.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

William Gallois joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, published by The Pennsylvania State University Press in 2024. Qayrawān: The Amuletic City investigates the fascinating history of the Tunisian city of Qayrawān, which in the last years of the nineteenth century found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the city's Great Mosque, these monumental artworks were only visible for about fifty years, from the 1880s through the 1930s. This book investigates the fascinating history of who created these outdoor paintings and why. Using visual archaeological methods, Qayrawān highlights the ‘unknown artist' as an actor of ‘unnoticed agency' and a practitioner of living traditional arts. Locating pictorial records of the murals from the backdrops of photographs, postcards, and other forms of European ephemera, Gallois identifies a form of religious painting that transposed traditional aesthetic forms such as house decoration, embroidery, and tattooing―which lay exclusively within the domains of women―onto the body of a conquered city. Gallois argues that these works were created by women as a form of “emergency art,” intended to offer amuletic protection for the community, and demonstrates how they differ markedly from “classical” Islamic antecedents and modern modes of Arab cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. The book challenges tacit assumptions of foreign categories and standards of aesthetics imposed upon Islamic and African art. It contributes to further explorations of the exploration of the ways in which Islam was interwoven with preexisting cultures and forms of expression, particularly in calling for a continued reimagining of the study of “Islamic art.” The book makes welcome contributions to Islamic, African, and Middle Eastern studies, particularly in relation to colonial and art histories. It will be welcomed by scholars of Islamic Studies, African Studies, and Art History. William Gallois is Professor of the Islamic Mediterranean in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, in England. In addition to Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, Prof Gallois is the author of A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony (2013) and The Administration of Sickness (2008), among other works. Yaseen Christian Andrewsen is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, specialising in Islamic intellectual history in West Africa focusing on issues in Sufism, theology, renewal, and authority. Yaseen is a co-host for the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast. He can be reached by email at: christian.andrewsen@pmb.ox.ac.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

William Gallois joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, published by The Pennsylvania State University Press in 2024. Qayrawān: The Amuletic City investigates the fascinating history of the Tunisian city of Qayrawān, which in the last years of the nineteenth century found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the city's Great Mosque, these monumental artworks were only visible for about fifty years, from the 1880s through the 1930s. This book investigates the fascinating history of who created these outdoor paintings and why. Using visual archaeological methods, Qayrawān highlights the ‘unknown artist' as an actor of ‘unnoticed agency' and a practitioner of living traditional arts. Locating pictorial records of the murals from the backdrops of photographs, postcards, and other forms of European ephemera, Gallois identifies a form of religious painting that transposed traditional aesthetic forms such as house decoration, embroidery, and tattooing―which lay exclusively within the domains of women―onto the body of a conquered city. Gallois argues that these works were created by women as a form of “emergency art,” intended to offer amuletic protection for the community, and demonstrates how they differ markedly from “classical” Islamic antecedents and modern modes of Arab cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. The book challenges tacit assumptions of foreign categories and standards of aesthetics imposed upon Islamic and African art. It contributes to further explorations of the exploration of the ways in which Islam was interwoven with preexisting cultures and forms of expression, particularly in calling for a continued reimagining of the study of “Islamic art.” The book makes welcome contributions to Islamic, African, and Middle Eastern studies, particularly in relation to colonial and art histories. It will be welcomed by scholars of Islamic Studies, African Studies, and Art History. William Gallois is Professor of the Islamic Mediterranean in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, in England. In addition to Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, Prof Gallois is the author of A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony (2013) and The Administration of Sickness (2008), among other works. Yaseen Christian Andrewsen is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, specialising in Islamic intellectual history in West Africa focusing on issues in Sufism, theology, renewal, and authority. Yaseen is a co-host for the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast. He can be reached by email at: christian.andrewsen@pmb.ox.ac.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

William Gallois joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, published by The Pennsylvania State University Press in 2024. Qayrawān: The Amuletic City investigates the fascinating history of the Tunisian city of Qayrawān, which in the last years of the nineteenth century found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the city's Great Mosque, these monumental artworks were only visible for about fifty years, from the 1880s through the 1930s. This book investigates the fascinating history of who created these outdoor paintings and why. Using visual archaeological methods, Qayrawān highlights the ‘unknown artist' as an actor of ‘unnoticed agency' and a practitioner of living traditional arts. Locating pictorial records of the murals from the backdrops of photographs, postcards, and other forms of European ephemera, Gallois identifies a form of religious painting that transposed traditional aesthetic forms such as house decoration, embroidery, and tattooing―which lay exclusively within the domains of women―onto the body of a conquered city. Gallois argues that these works were created by women as a form of “emergency art,” intended to offer amuletic protection for the community, and demonstrates how they differ markedly from “classical” Islamic antecedents and modern modes of Arab cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. The book challenges tacit assumptions of foreign categories and standards of aesthetics imposed upon Islamic and African art. It contributes to further explorations of the exploration of the ways in which Islam was interwoven with preexisting cultures and forms of expression, particularly in calling for a continued reimagining of the study of “Islamic art.” The book makes welcome contributions to Islamic, African, and Middle Eastern studies, particularly in relation to colonial and art histories. It will be welcomed by scholars of Islamic Studies, African Studies, and Art History. William Gallois is Professor of the Islamic Mediterranean in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, in England. In addition to Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, Prof Gallois is the author of A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony (2013) and The Administration of Sickness (2008), among other works. Yaseen Christian Andrewsen is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, specialising in Islamic intellectual history in West Africa focusing on issues in Sufism, theology, renewal, and authority. Yaseen is a co-host for the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast. He can be reached by email at: christian.andrewsen@pmb.ox.ac.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

Discover the mysteries of Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim), one of the most influential books of magic ever written. This ancient Arabic text has fascinated mystics, scholars, and occultists for centuries with its unique blend of astrology, alchemy, and Hermetic philosophy. In this episode, we explore its origins, history, and the themes it contains.Thank you to Dr. Saif for appearing in, and helping out with, this video. Check out her excellent work (some of which is listed in the sources below).Find me and my music here:https://linktr.ee/filipholmSupport Let's Talk Religion on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/letstalkreligion Or through a one-time donation: https://paypal.me/talkreligiondonateSources/Recomended Reading:Attrell, Dan & David Porreca (translated by) (2019). “Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic”. Pennsylvania State University Press. Fierro, Maribel (1996). “Batinism in al-Andalus: Maslama b. Qasim al-Qurtubi, author of the Rutbat al-Hakim and the Ghayat al-Hakim (Picatrix)”. In “Studia Islamica, 1996/2, 84”. Brill.Melvin-Koushki, Matthew & Noah Gardner (2017). "Islamicate Occultism: New Perspectives". Brill.Pingree, David (1981). “Between the Ghaya and the Pixatrix”. In “Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Volume 44, 1981”. University of Chicago Press.Saif, Liana (2015). "The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy". Palgrave Macmillan.Saif, Liana; Francesca Leoni; Matthew Melvin-Koushki & Farouk Yahya (2021). "Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice". Brill.Savage-Smith, Emily (ed.) (2004). "Magic & Divination in Early Islam". Ashgate Publishing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's dive into the life and work of Allan Kardec, the founder of Spiritism, exploring the philosophy, history, and impact of this 19th-century movement. Kardec, a French educator, sought to bridge the gap between spirituality and science by codifying Spiritism—a system based on communication with spirits, reincarnation, and moral evolution. We examine his key works, including The Spirits' Book and The Mediums' Book, and discuss Spiritism's influence on French intellectual circles and its rapid growth in Brazil, where it evolved into a major religious movement. Join me as we explore how Kardec's Spiritism offers answers to profound existential questions, the nature of the spirit world, and the ethical framework it provides for understanding human suffering and inequality. The episode also touches on Spiritism's connections to broader esoteric traditions and modern occult movements. CONNECT & SUPPORT

The US doesn't experience much terrorism, we've had several attacks on US soil, but for the most part, we've had far less than other countries experience. In modern day terrorist attacks, the goal is to spread fear by directing violence against innocent victims. These attacks can be initiated by a government, a radical group, liberationists or “freedom fighters”. They attack anywhere with no warning making people wonder, “Could I be next?” You can reach me on the website at www.causeofdeath100secs.net or you can email me at Jackie@causeofdeath100secs.net. My Link Tree can be found at: https://linktr.ee/CauseofDeathpod Terrorism Show Notes: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110510 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315083483/history-terrorism-walter-laqueur https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article-abstract/31/1/49/11864/The-Strategies-of-Terrorism https://www.unodc.org/documents/e4j/18-04932_CT_Mod_01_ebook_FINALpdf.pdf https://www.pogo.org/investigations/brief-history-of-terrorism https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/topic_display.cfm?tcid=94 https://web.archive.org/web/20071012153928/http://cdi.org/program/issue/index.cfm?ProgramID=39&issueid=138 https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-story/terrorism-very-brief-history https://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/terrorism/module-1/key-issues/brief-history.html https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203426159-78/terrorism-david-rapoport https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5930.1990.tb00261.x https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/hoff17476/html https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-terrorism-index-2023 https://www.britannica.com/event/September-11-attacks/The-attacks https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/world-trade-center-bombing-1993 https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/oklahoma-city-bombing https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/faith-fanaticism-and-fear-aum-shinrikyo-birth-and-death-terrorist https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Massacre https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/global-terrorism-index/#/ https://www.gao.gov/blog/rising-threat-domestic-terrorism-u.s.-and-federal-efforts-combat-it https://apnews.com/hub/terrorist-attacks https://www.pogo.org/investigations/brief-history-of-terrorism https://www.unodc.org/documents/e4j/18-04932_CT_Mod_01_ebook_FINALpdf.pdf https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-terrorism-index-2023 Crenshaw, M. (2007). Terrorism in context. Pennsylvania State University Press. Andrew H. Kydd, Barbara F. Walter; The Strategies of Terrorism. International Security 2006; 31 (1): 49–80. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/isec.2006.31.1.49 Crenshaw, M. (1981). The Causes of Terrorism. Comparative Politics, 13(4), 379–399. https://doi.org/10.2307/421717 Laqueur, W. (2001). A History of Terrorism (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315083483 Mystery Disease Affecting Dogs https://abc7chicago.com/respiratory-illness-infection-dog-disease/14108480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7127756/ https://vet.purdue.edu/addl/news/231122-dog-illness.php https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/27/mystery-dog-respiratory-illness-states-map/71716644007/ https://agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/news-and-media-relations/news-releases?article=38019 https://www.oregonvma.org/news/reports-of-severe-canine-infectious-respiratory-disease-in-oregon https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments/riney-canine-health-center/canine-health-information/canine-respiratory-disease-outbreaks Darkcast Network – Promo by Yours Truly Podcast Promos: Misty Mysteries Hands Off My Podcast Technically a Conversation Sponsors: Accident.com Music: Time Off by Damma Beatz You can reach me on: Instagram: @CauseofDeathpod Threads: @causeofdeathpodcast FB: @COD100Secs Twitter: @CauseofDeath10 TikTok: @causeofdeath100secs Please don't forget to rate and review on any of the platforms found here: www.causeofdeath100secs.net You can support Cause of Death here: Subscribe on Apple Subscriptions Patreon: https://www.Patreon.com/JackieMoranty Ko-Fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/causeofdeathluckycharmsunplugg Merch can be found at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/causeofdeathluckycharmsunplugged Please share this podcast with everyone you know. Cause of Death is a proud member of the Darkcast Network. Find us at @darkcastnetwork on Twitter and @DarkcastNetwork on Facebook. I am also a proud member of the Ossa Collective Network. Cause of Death can be found on all major podcast platforms. Tags: #causeofdeath100secs #terrorismhistory #terrorism #mysteryillnessindogs #atypicalcanineinfectiousrespiratorydiseasecomplex #CIRDC #darkcastnetwork

On the Shelf for September 2023 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 267 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Book ShoppingGoodman, Ruth. 2016. How to be a Tudor: A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Tudor Life. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 978-1-63149-253-2 Cleland, Elizabeth & Adam Eaker. 2022. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ISBN 978-1-58839-692-1 Ball, Krista D. 2012. What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank. Tyche Books, Ltd, Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9878248-9-9 Ndiaye, Noémie & Lia Markey. 2023. Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, Tempe. ISBN 978-0-86698-842-1 Leonardi, Camillo (trans. Liliana Leopardi). 2023. Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-09539-4 Hindley, Katherine Storm. 2023. Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-82533-5 Warr, Cordelia. 2023. Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1-78327-598-4 Not Just the Tudors (podcast) Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deanne Williams Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionEmber of a New World by Ishtar Watson Sanditon: The Lesbian Solution by Garnet Marriott and Jane Austen Where Pleasant Fountains Lie (The New Countess #3) by Lady Vanessa S.-G Haven's End (Daughters Under the Black Flag #2) by Eden Hopewell The Birdwatchers by Louise Vetroff The Haunted Diamond by Becky Black He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant For Love and Liberty by Eden Hopewell Her Duchess by Brooke Winters Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix (Remixed Classics # 8) by Cherie Dimaline Other Titles of InterestThe Girl Who Fled the Picture by Jane Anderson The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield What I've been consumingThe Great Roxhythe by Georgette Heyer Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. This month we interview Rhiannon Grant and talk about:The appeal of a Neolithic setting Worldbuilding in archaeological settings Exploring spirituality Publications mentioned:Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant Between Boat and Shore by Rhiannon Grant The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss Ember of a New World by Ishtar Watson Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel This month we interview Katharine Quarmby and talk about:The historic inspiration for the story The work of turning archives into fiction Finding queer relationships in the historic record Fiction and non-fiction as reflections of each other Reclaiming marginalized histories Publications mentioned:The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph Gentleman Jack (tv series) The Fascination by Essie Fox A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.) Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/ Twitter: @LesbianMotif Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Rhiannon Grant Online Facebook: Rhiannon Grant TikTok (main): @ rhiannonbookgeek TikTok (books): @ sapphicprehistory Twitter: @bookgeekrelng Bluesky: @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social Mastodon: >@rhiannongrant@mastodon.org.uk Links to Katharine QuarmbyOnline Website: katharinequarmby.com Twitter: @KatharineQ Facebook: Katharine Quarmby (writer)

References: Bartolovich, Crystal,   ‘“First as Tragedy, then as…”: Gender, Genre, History, and Romeo and Juliet', found in ‘Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies' (Routledge, 2016) Black, James, ‘The Visual Artistry of Romeo and Juliet' (Calgary Press, 1975) Cartwright, Kent, ‘Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double', (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992) Gamboa, Brett, 'Shakespeare's Double Plays: Dramatic Economy on the Early Modern Stage' (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Kanekar, Aarati, ‘Architecture's Pretexts: Spaces of Translation', (Routledge, 2014) Lee, Dr Emma, ‘Approaching Shakespeare' Podcast, (Oxford University, 2015) Levenson, Jill, ‘Echoes Inhabit a Garden: The Narratives of Romeo and Juliet', found in ‘Shakespeare Survey: Volume 53, Shakespeare and Narrative' (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Marks,  Jonathan, ‘Fools for love? Shakespeare's qualified defense of Romeo and Juliet', in the Ignatuius Critical Edition of Romeo and Juliet, (Ignatuius, 2011) Synder, Susan, ‘Shakespeare: A Wayward Journey', (University of Delaware Press, 2008) Buy my revision guides in paperback on Amazon*:

Begäret att resa sitter djupt i människan. Men måste en resa vara lång för att räknas? Poeten och latinforskaren Anna Blennow berättar om resande i antikens Egypten och ser kopplingar till vår tid. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Denna essä sändes första gången i augusti 2020.”Ni bör veta, ärade damer och systrar, att från det ställe där vi stod (...), på toppen av det mittersta berget, såg vi under oss (...) Egypten, Palestina, Röda havet och Parthenska havet, som sträcker sig till Alexandria, och saracenernas oändliga land. Man kan knappast tro det, men de heliga männen pekade ut allt detta för oss.”Den som skriver det här är en kvinna. Det är allt vi vet säkert. Troligen hette hon Egeria och var från Spanien, och det var troligen i slutet av 300-talet som hon företog sin fyra år långa resa till platser som Jerusalem, Egypten, Syrien och Konstantinopel. Förmodligen tillhörde hon en klostergemenskap, och det är till systrarna där hon riktar sin reseberättelse. Texten, som återfanns i ett klosterbibliotek i Arezzo i slutet av 1800-talet, är en av de äldsta bevarade skildringarna av en kristen pilgrimsfärd.Egeria reste inte ensam. Hon talar om ett odefinierat ”vi”, men texten gör det tydligt att hon var sällskapets ledare och möttes med aktning vart än hon kom. Resan genomfördes på åsnerygg – ett för tiden mycket vanligt transportalternativ, robustare och billigare än hästar – och ibland till fots om landskapet var för oländigt, till exempel när berget Sinai skulle bestigas.Antikens resenärer var främst soldater, ämbetsmän, handelsmän och budbärare, vars kringflackande ingick i deras profession. Att utan anledning vara på resande fot, eller att sakna fast bostad, ansågs både beklagansvärt och misstänkt. Men under senantiken började både kvinnor och män göra alltmer omfattande resor i religiösa ärenden, och själva förflyttningen och umbärandena på färden fick mening genom religiösa ideal.De som ständigt reste betraktades dock ofta med skepsis under den tidiga medeltiden. Regula Magistri, en klosterregel som nedtecknades på 500-talet, ägnar en av de längsta passagerna åt hur man skulle förhålla sig till de kringvandrande munkar som kallades gyrovagi, ”de som strövar omkring i cirklar”. De betraktades som falska munkar eftersom de inte ville inordna sig under ett specifikt kloster, utan ”tillbringar sina liv som gäster under ett par dagar i taget vid olika kloster, eftersom de dagligen vill välkomnas som gäster på ständigt nya platser.” Såväl deras rastlöshet som deras återkommande missbrukande av klostrens gästfrihet fördömdes grundligt.Pilgrimsfärder skulle senare under medeltiden bli en central del av den kristna praktiken, men vid flera tidiga kyrkokoncilier försökte man begränsa det religiösa resandet. Kyrkofadern Gregorios av Nyssa ansåg att pilgrimsfärder inte bara var onödiga utan rent skadliga, och målade upp livet i Jerusalem som omoraliskt och olämpligt för goda kristna. Även Augustinus avrådde. Resan skulle helst förbli mera harmlös metafor för människans livsfärd snarare än faktisk förflyttning.Varför reser vi? Hur påverkar det egentligen oss själva och dem vi besöker? Alltsedan antiken har vi rest i religionens namn, eller för att få vörda världsliga underverk som pyramiderna eller frihetsgudinnan. Vi reser för att söka ett varmare eller kallare klimat: såväl rika romare som medeltida påvar hade sommarvillor. Och resorna är kanske oftare nu än förr inriktade på konsumtion av upplevelser, varor och tjänster.Latinets ord peregrinus som blivit vårt ”pilgrim” saknar från början religiös konnotation, och betyder i grunden främling eller resenär. Vi reser också för att bli främlingar, i flykt från vardagen. Vi reser likt rastlösa och nöjeslystna gyrovagi. Men vi reser också för att träffa släkt och vänner, mikroresor till andra sidan stan, mellan Ulricehamn och Borås, hem till Luleå över julen.Så reste man också förr. Sabine Huebner, professor i antikens historia, har utifrån de rika textkällor som finns bevarade från Egypten under romersk kejsartid gjort en studie av hur enklare befolkningsklasser levde. Det är förhållanden som i princip aldrig skymtar i de litterära texterna från den romerska antiken, vars upphovspersoner utgjorde ett fåtal välbeställda procent av det stora romarrikets invånare. Kortfattade anteckningar och kvitton på krukskärvor och papyrusremsor som bevarats i det torra ökenklimatet öppnar dörren till en värld av vardagsliv, där resor bortom de breda vägarna kan spåras.Precis som Egeria färdades man oftast med åsna eller till fots, men också med båt där det fanns vattenvägar. Tack vare bevarade kvitton vet vi till och med vad resorna kostade. Några dagars båtfärd till Alexandria gick på två månadslöner för en enkel arbetare, medan en åsna kunde hyras per dag för en bråkdel av den kostnaden, motsvarande två dagslöner.Varför reste man? Den främsta orsaken var handel och varutransporter, men det fanns också många långt mer privata skäl. Födslar, födelsedagar, sjukdom och begravningar ledde till täta besök av familjemedlemmar och släktingar som bodde på annan ort. Föräldrar som hade råd att skicka sina barn till närmaste större stad för utbildning reste dit på visit, och barnen kom ofta hem och hälsade på.Och inte bara människor rörde på sig. Bevarade brev som skickats med resenärer berättar om ständig skriftlig kommunikation mellan familjemedlemmar. En son skriver klagande till sin mor: ”Jag har skickat dig så många brev, och ändå har du inte sänt mig ett enda, trots att så många rest nedför floden sedan dess.” ”Det här är det tredje brevet jag skickar dig, och du har fortfarande inte svarat”, skriver en annan man till sin bror.Och textkällorna från det romerska Egypten har visat att även kvinnor reste i högre utsträckning än man tidigare trott. Den som väntade barn återvände ofta till sitt föräldrahem inför förlossningen, och det var också vanligt att kvinnor reste till gravida släktingar för att bistå vid födseln. De reste med sina män om dessa fått arbete långt från hemmet, eller i olika praktiska och professionella ärenden.I vår samtid är vi, precis som i antikens Egypten, i ständig förflyttning i så hög grad att vi nästan inte längre är medvetna om det. Att vara i rörelse är ett sätt att leva snarare än att resa, och för många är riktiga resor ofta synonyma med stora äventyr på andra sidan jorden. Men när det kommer till kritan bär mikroresorna på minst lika omvälvande existentiella erfarenheter: besöket hos de gamla föräldrarna, taxiresan till BB för den förstföddas ankomst, bröllopsfester, begravningar. Det är sådana små utflykter vi kan ta för givna, och inte ens tänker på som resor.Men om allt resande plötsligt förhindras, som när en pandemi bryter ut och gör all mänsklig närkontakt riskabel, är det inte främst jordenruntresorna vi saknar, utan mikroresorna människor emellan.När Egeria anlände till Odessa på sin pilgrimsfärd välkomnades hon med följande ord av stadens biskop: ”Min dotter, för religionens skull har du ålagt dig en så stor möda att du rest hit nästan från världens ände, och därför ska vi visa dig vilka platser du än vill se.”De mödosamma, långa och makalösa resorna gör kanske störst avtryck i eftervärldens historieskrivning. Spårvagnsbiljetter och taxikvitton hamnar sällan i arkiven. Men de unika textdokumenten från den egyptiska antiken påminner oss om att resorna i det lilla alltid har utgjort kärnan i den mänskliga tillvaron.Anna Blennow, latinforskare och poetLitteraturEgeria. Resebrev från det heliga landet, översättning av Christina Sandquist Öberg, inledning och kommentar av Per Beskow, Artos & Norma bokförlag 2006.Maribel Dietz, Wandering monks, virgins, and pilgrims. Ascetic travel in the Mediterranean world, A.D. 300–800, The Pennsylvania State University Press 2005.Sabine R. Huebner, Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament, Cambridge University Press 2019.

We're joined this week by my good friend and fellow University of Minnesota alum Dr. Adam Blackler to talk about Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. Folks, I'd never seen this film before watching it for the pod so listening to Adam dissect it is a thing of beauty. But stay on, because he'll talk about his work in German colonial Africa as well as German cinema and how it informs the present. It's good stuff.About Adam: Adam A. Blackler is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. He is a historian of modern Germany and southern Africa, whose research emphasizes the transnational dimensions of imperial occupation and settler-colonial violence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His scholarly and teaching interests also include the political and social dynamics of Germany's Weimar Republic and the interdisciplinary fields of holocaust & genocide Studies and international human rights. Dr. Blackler's  book, entitled An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa, is in the Pennsylvania State University Press's series “Germans Beyond Europe” sponsored by the Max Kade Research Institute. His most recent publications include a co-edited anthology, entitled After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies, and a chapter in the multi-volume collection, A Cultural History of Genocide. Dr. Blackler is presently researching a book project that explores the vibrant topography of Berlin's parks, market squares, streets, and municipal districts before and during the Weimar Republic.

At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered to the erotic gaze of imperial enthusiasts with images of Ovaherero girls, and youth magazines allowed children to escape into "exotic domains" where their imaginations could wander freely. While racist beliefs framed such narratives, the abundance of colonial imaginaries nevertheless compelled German citizens and settlers to contemplate the world beyond Europe as a part of their daily lives. An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) reorients our understanding of the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in Southwest Africa (present-day Namibia). Colonialism had an especially significant effect on shared interpretations of the Heimat (home/homeland) ideal, a historically elusive perception that conveyed among Germans a sense of place through national peculiarities and local landmarks. Focusing on colonial encounters that took place between 1842 and 1915, Adam A. Blackler reveals how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity. As Blackler shows, once the façade of imperial fantasy gave way to colonial reality, German metropolitans and white settlers increasingly sought to fortify their presence in Africa using juridical and physical acts of violence, culminating in the first genocide of the twentieth century. Grounded in extensive archival research, An Imperial Homeland enriches our understanding of German identity, allowing us to see how a distant colony with diverse ecologies, peoples, and social dynamics grew into an extension of German memory and tradition. It will be of interest to German Studies scholars, particularly those interested in colonial Africa. Dr. Adam A. Blackler is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. He is a historian of modern Germany and southern Africa, whose research emphasizes the transnational dimensions of imperial occupation and settler-colonial violence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered to the erotic gaze of imperial enthusiasts with images of Ovaherero girls, and youth magazines allowed children to escape into "exotic domains" where their imaginations could wander freely. While racist beliefs framed such narratives, the abundance of colonial imaginaries nevertheless compelled German citizens and settlers to contemplate the world beyond Europe as a part of their daily lives. An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) reorients our understanding of the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in Southwest Africa (present-day Namibia). Colonialism had an especially significant effect on shared interpretations of the Heimat (home/homeland) ideal, a historically elusive perception that conveyed among Germans a sense of place through national peculiarities and local landmarks. Focusing on colonial encounters that took place between 1842 and 1915, Adam A. Blackler reveals how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity. As Blackler shows, once the façade of imperial fantasy gave way to colonial reality, German metropolitans and white settlers increasingly sought to fortify their presence in Africa using juridical and physical acts of violence, culminating in the first genocide of the twentieth century. Grounded in extensive archival research, An Imperial Homeland enriches our understanding of German identity, allowing us to see how a distant colony with diverse ecologies, peoples, and social dynamics grew into an extension of German memory and tradition. It will be of interest to German Studies scholars, particularly those interested in colonial Africa. Dr. Adam A. Blackler is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. He is a historian of modern Germany and southern Africa, whose research emphasizes the transnational dimensions of imperial occupation and settler-colonial violence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered to the erotic gaze of imperial enthusiasts with images of Ovaherero girls, and youth magazines allowed children to escape into "exotic domains" where their imaginations could wander freely. While racist beliefs framed such narratives, the abundance of colonial imaginaries nevertheless compelled German citizens and settlers to contemplate the world beyond Europe as a part of their daily lives. An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) reorients our understanding of the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in Southwest Africa (present-day Namibia). Colonialism had an especially significant effect on shared interpretations of the Heimat (home/homeland) ideal, a historically elusive perception that conveyed among Germans a sense of place through national peculiarities and local landmarks. Focusing on colonial encounters that took place between 1842 and 1915, Adam A. Blackler reveals how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity. As Blackler shows, once the façade of imperial fantasy gave way to colonial reality, German metropolitans and white settlers increasingly sought to fortify their presence in Africa using juridical and physical acts of violence, culminating in the first genocide of the twentieth century. Grounded in extensive archival research, An Imperial Homeland enriches our understanding of German identity, allowing us to see how a distant colony with diverse ecologies, peoples, and social dynamics grew into an extension of German memory and tradition. It will be of interest to German Studies scholars, particularly those interested in colonial Africa. Dr. Adam A. Blackler is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. He is a historian of modern Germany and southern Africa, whose research emphasizes the transnational dimensions of imperial occupation and settler-colonial violence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

Lavinia Fontana was taught painting by her father, and became one of the earliest examples of a woman with an independent career in art that supported her family. She became very well-known for her portraits and her devotional art.  Research: Bohn, Babette. “Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna.” Pennsylvania State University Press. 2021. Villa, Angelica. “National Gallery of Victoria Acquires Lavinia Fontana Painting to Address ‘Gender Imbalance.'” ARTnews. Feb. 8, 2022. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/national-gallery-of-victoria-lavinia-fontana-acquisition-1234618453/ National Gallery of Ireland. “Part 1: Introducing the Lavinia Fontana Conservation and Research Project.” Aug. 22, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N0nv40TzEk National Gallery of Ireland. “Conservation treatment of Lavinia Fontana's painting.” https://www.nationalgallery.ie/explore-and-learn/conservation-and-research-projects/lavinia-fontana-conservation-and-research-0 Casoni, Felice Antonio. “Medal.” The British Museum. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_G3-IP-370 Lupi, Livia. “This Day in History: August 11.” Italian Art Society. August 11, 2016. https://www.italianartsociety.org/2016/08/lavinia-fontana-died-on-11-august-1614-in-rome/ Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Lavinia Fontana". Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lavinia-Fontana Sanchez, Francisco Del Rio. “Where did the Queen of Sheba rule—Arabia or Africa?” National Geographic. June 7, 2021. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/06/where-did-the-queen-of-sheba-rule-arabia-or-africa McIver, Katherine A. “Renaissance Women Painting Themselves.” Art Herstory. June 8, 2019. https://artherstory.net/self-portraits-by-renaissance-women-artists/ Murphy, Caroline P. “Lavinia Fontana and ‘Le Dame Della Città': Understanding Female Artistic Patronage in Late Sixteenth-Century Bologna.” Renaissance Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 1996, pp. 190–208. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24412268 “Mannerism.” National Gallery of Art. https://www.nga.gov/features/slideshows/mannerism.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) Ariela Marcus-Sells examines two Sufi Muslim theologians, known as Kunta scholars, who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century. Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), influenced the development of Sufi Muslim thought in West Africa. Through textual analysis of their devotional aids, such as prayers and magic squares, we are provided a picture of their understanding of “the realm of the unseen” and the resulting practices of the “sciences of the unseen.” Marcus-Sells captures how Kunta scholars engaged with contested Sufi and Islamic praxis that contained cosmology, metaphysics, magic, sorcery, and occultism. The study also contextualizes these magical and Sufi practices within social and political context of the Saharan desert, such as Transatlantic slavery, while mapping the broader legacies of these devotional practices within Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds. The book further invites a methodological intervention in the study of religion, in terms of how scholars construct boundaries around emic and etic terminologies of magic, especially in Islamic Studies and broadly in religious studies. This remarkable book will be of interest to those who think and write about Africana religious studies, Islamic occultism, magic, Sufism, and Islam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) Ariela Marcus-Sells examines two Sufi Muslim theologians, known as Kunta scholars, who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century. Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), influenced the development of Sufi Muslim thought in West Africa. Through textual analysis of their devotional aids, such as prayers and magic squares, we are provided a picture of their understanding of “the realm of the unseen” and the resulting practices of the “sciences of the unseen.” Marcus-Sells captures how Kunta scholars engaged with contested Sufi and Islamic praxis that contained cosmology, metaphysics, magic, sorcery, and occultism. The study also contextualizes these magical and Sufi practices within social and political context of the Saharan desert, such as Transatlantic slavery, while mapping the broader legacies of these devotional practices within Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds. The book further invites a methodological intervention in the study of religion, in terms of how scholars construct boundaries around emic and etic terminologies of magic, especially in Islamic Studies and broadly in religious studies. This remarkable book will be of interest to those who think and write about Africana religious studies, Islamic occultism, magic, Sufism, and Islam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) Ariela Marcus-Sells examines two Sufi Muslim theologians, known as Kunta scholars, who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century. Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), influenced the development of Sufi Muslim thought in West Africa. Through textual analysis of their devotional aids, such as prayers and magic squares, we are provided a picture of their understanding of “the realm of the unseen” and the resulting practices of the “sciences of the unseen.” Marcus-Sells captures how Kunta scholars engaged with contested Sufi and Islamic praxis that contained cosmology, metaphysics, magic, sorcery, and occultism. The study also contextualizes these magical and Sufi practices within social and political context of the Saharan desert, such as Transatlantic slavery, while mapping the broader legacies of these devotional practices within Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds. The book further invites a methodological intervention in the study of religion, in terms of how scholars construct boundaries around emic and etic terminologies of magic, especially in Islamic Studies and broadly in religious studies. This remarkable book will be of interest to those who think and write about Africana religious studies, Islamic occultism, magic, Sufism, and Islam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

In Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) Ariela Marcus-Sells examines two Sufi Muslim theologians, known as Kunta scholars, who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century. Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), influenced the development of Sufi Muslim thought in West Africa. Through textual analysis of their devotional aids, such as prayers and magic squares, we are provided a picture of their understanding of “the realm of the unseen” and the resulting practices of the “sciences of the unseen.” Marcus-Sells captures how Kunta scholars engaged with contested Sufi and Islamic praxis that contained cosmology, metaphysics, magic, sorcery, and occultism. The study also contextualizes these magical and Sufi practices within social and political context of the Saharan desert, such as Transatlantic slavery, while mapping the broader legacies of these devotional practices within Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds. The book further invites a methodological intervention in the study of religion, in terms of how scholars construct boundaries around emic and etic terminologies of magic, especially in Islamic Studies and broadly in religious studies. This remarkable book will be of interest to those who think and write about Africana religious studies, Islamic occultism, magic, Sufism, and Islam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

In Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) Ariela Marcus-Sells examines two Sufi Muslim theologians, known as Kunta scholars, who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century. Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), influenced the development of Sufi Muslim thought in West Africa. Through textual analysis of their devotional aids, such as prayers and magic squares, we are provided a picture of their understanding of “the realm of the unseen” and the resulting practices of the “sciences of the unseen.” Marcus-Sells captures how Kunta scholars engaged with contested Sufi and Islamic praxis that contained cosmology, metaphysics, magic, sorcery, and occultism. The study also contextualizes these magical and Sufi practices within social and political context of the Saharan desert, such as Transatlantic slavery, while mapping the broader legacies of these devotional practices within Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds. The book further invites a methodological intervention in the study of religion, in terms of how scholars construct boundaries around emic and etic terminologies of magic, especially in Islamic Studies and broadly in religious studies. This remarkable book will be of interest to those who think and write about Africana religious studies, Islamic occultism, magic, Sufism, and Islam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Sarah and guest Miti von Weissenberg explore sanctity and voluntary poverty in 1989 film Francesco! Join us as we delve into the real lives of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, the intertwined histories of the Franciscans and the Poor Clares, and the link between biopic and hagiography. Learn more about Miti's research and teaching: https://www.xavier.edu/history-department/directory/marita-vonweissenberg Learn more about St. Francis of Assisi and his legacy: Francis of Assisi: Early Documents. Edited by Regis J. Armstrong, J.A. Wayne Hellman, and William J. Short. New York: New City Press, 1999-2001  Moorman, John R. H. A history of the Franciscan Order from its Origins to the Year 1517. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968 Vauchez, André, translated by Michael F. Cusato. Francis of Assisi : The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint. Yale University Press, 2012   The Cambridge companion to Francis of Assisi. Edited by Michael J.P. Robson Thompson, Augustine. Francis of Assisi : A New Biography. Cornell University Press, 2012.  Appelbaum, Patricia. St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint. Chapel Hill: university of North Carolina Press, 2015.  Learn more about St. Clare of Assisi:  Mooney, Catherine M. Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.  Mueller, Joan. The privilege of poverty : Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the struggle for a Franciscan rule for women. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. Learn more about Franciscan spirituality: Ahlgren, Gillian T.W. The Tenderness of God: Reclaiming our Humanity. Lanham: Fortress Press, 2017.   Learn more about medieval sanctity: Bartlett, Robert. Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? : Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.  Vauchez, André. The Laity in the Middle Ages : Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993. Vauchez, André. Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Social Media: Twitter @mediaevalpod E-mail: media.evalpod@gmail.com Find Miti at @MvonWeissenberg Rate, review, and subscribe!

What would you ransack from from Constantinople? Tune in and learn about the history of the Hagia Sofia and the formation of Constantinople! Laura leads our discussion this week, going through the formation of Constantinople and explaining why this historical landmark demands the attention and awe of all who see it. Citations for this episode: Pentcheva, Bissera V. 2018. Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium. Pennsylvania State University Press. Nicolle, David, John F. Haldon, and Stephen R. Turnbull. 2007. The Fall of Constantinople: The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium. Oxford: Osprey.

Begäret att resa sitter djupt i människan. Men måste en resa vara lång för att räknas? Poeten och latinforskaren Anna Blennow berättar om resande i antikens Egypten och ser kopplingar till vår tid. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Denna essä sändes första gången i augusti 2020. Ni bör veta, ärade damer och systrar, att från det ställe där vi stod (...), på toppen av det mittersta berget, såg vi under oss (...) Egypten, Palestina, Röda havet och Parthenska havet, som sträcker sig till Alexandria, och saracenernas oändliga land. Man kan knappast tro det, men de heliga männen pekade ut allt detta för oss. Den som skriver det här är en kvinna. Det är allt vi vet säkert. Troligen hette hon Egeria och var från Spanien, och det var troligen i slutet av 300-talet som hon företog sin fyra år långa resa till platser som Jerusalem, Egypten, Syrien och Konstantinopel. Förmodligen tillhörde hon en klostergemenskap, och det är till systrarna där hon riktar sin reseberättelse. Texten, som återfanns i ett klosterbibliotek i Arezzo i slutet av 1800-talet, är en av de äldsta bevarade skildringarna av en kristen pilgrimsfärd. Egeria reste inte ensam. Hon talar om ett odefinierat vi, men texten gör det tydligt att hon var sällskapets ledare och möttes med aktning vart än hon kom. Resan genomfördes på åsnerygg ett för tiden mycket vanligt transportalternativ, robustare och billigare än hästar och ibland till fots om landskapet var för oländigt, till exempel när berget Sinai skulle bestigas. Antikens resenärer var främst soldater, ämbetsmän, handelsmän och budbärare, vars kringflackande ingick i deras profession. Att utan anledning vara på resande fot, eller att sakna fast bostad, ansågs både beklagansvärt och misstänkt. Men under senantiken började både kvinnor och män göra alltmer omfattande resor i religiösa ärenden, och själva förflyttningen och umbärandena på färden fick mening genom religiösa ideal. De som ständigt reste betraktades dock ofta med skepsis under den tidiga medeltiden. Regula Magistri, en klosterregel som nedtecknades på 500-talet, ägnar en av de längsta passagerna åt hur man skulle förhålla sig till de kringvandrande munkar som kallades gyrovagi, de som strövar omkring i cirklar. De betraktades som falska munkar eftersom de inte ville inordna sig under ett specifikt kloster, utan tillbringar sina liv som gäster under ett par dagar i taget vid olika kloster, eftersom de dagligen vill välkomnas som gäster på ständigt nya platser. Såväl deras rastlöshet som deras återkommande missbrukande av klostrens gästfrihet fördömdes grundligt. Pilgrimsfärder skulle senare under medeltiden bli en central del av den kristna praktiken, men vid flera tidiga kyrkokoncilier försökte man begränsa det religiösa resandet. Kyrkofadern Gregorios av Nyssa ansåg att pilgrimsfärder inte bara var onödiga utan rent skadliga, och målade upp livet i Jerusalem som omoraliskt och olämpligt för goda kristna. Även Augustinus avrådde. Resan skulle helst förbli mera harmlös metafor för människans livsfärd snarare än faktisk förflyttning. Varför reser vi? Hur påverkar det egentligen oss själva och dem vi besöker? Alltsedan antiken har vi rest i religionens namn, eller för att få vörda världsliga underverk som pyramiderna eller frihetsgudinnan. Vi reser för att söka ett varmare eller kallare klimat: såväl rika romare som medeltida påvar hade sommarvillor. Och resorna är kanske oftare nu än förr inriktade på konsumtion av upplevelser, varor och tjänster. Latinets ord peregrinus som blivit vårt pilgrim saknar från början religiös konnotation, och betyder i grunden främling eller resenär. Vi reser också för att bli främlingar, i flykt från vardagen. Vi reser likt rastlösa och nöjeslystna gyrovagi. Men vi reser också för att träffa släkt och vänner, mikroresor till andra sidan stan, mellan Ulricehamn och Borås, hem till Luleå över julen. Så reste man också förr. Sabine Huebner, professor i antikens historia, har utifrån de rika textkällor som finns bevarade från Egypten under romersk kejsartid gjort en studie av hur enklare befolkningsklasser levde. Det är förhållanden som i princip aldrig skymtar i de litterära texterna från den romerska antiken, vars upphovspersoner utgjorde ett fåtal välbeställda procent av det stora romarrikets invånare. Kortfattade anteckningar och kvitton på krukskärvor och papyrusremsor som bevarats i det torra ökenklimatet öppnar dörren till en värld av vardagsliv, där resor bortom de breda vägarna kan spåras. Precis som Egeria färdades man oftast med åsna eller till fots, men också med båt där det fanns vattenvägar. Tack vare bevarade kvitton vet vi till och med vad resorna kostade. Några dagars båtfärd till Alexandria gick på två månadslöner för en enkel arbetare, medan en åsna kunde hyras per dag för en bråkdel av den kostnaden, motsvarande två dagslöner. Varför reste man? Den främsta orsaken var handel och varutransporter, men det fanns också många långt mer privata skäl. Födslar, födelsedagar, sjukdom och begravningar ledde till täta besök av familjemedlemmar och släktingar som bodde på annan ort. Föräldrar som hade råd att skicka sina barn till närmaste större stad för utbildning reste dit på visit, och barnen kom ofta hem och hälsade på. Och inte bara människor rörde på sig. Bevarade brev som skickats med resenärer berättar om ständig skriftlig kommunikation mellan familjemedlemmar. En son skriver klagande till sin mor: Jag har skickat dig så många brev, och ändå har du inte sänt mig ett enda, trots att så många rest nedför floden sedan dess. Det här är det tredje brevet jag skickar dig, och du har fortfarande inte svarat, skriver en annan man till sin bror. Och textkällorna från det romerska Egypten har visat att även kvinnor reste i högre utsträckning än man tidigare trott. Den som väntade barn återvände ofta till sitt föräldrahem inför förlossningen, och det var också vanligt att kvinnor reste till gravida släktingar för att bistå vid födseln. De reste med sina män om dessa fått arbete långt från hemmet, eller i olika praktiska och professionella ärenden. I vår samtid är vi, precis som i antikens Egypten, i ständig förflyttning i så hög grad att vi nästan inte längre är medvetna om det. Att vara i rörelse är ett sätt att leva snarare än att resa, och för många är riktiga resor ofta synonyma med stora äventyr på andra sidan jorden. Men när det kommer till kritan bär mikroresorna på minst lika omvälvande existentiella erfarenheter: besöket hos de gamla föräldrarna, taxiresan till BB för den förstföddas ankomst, bröllopsfester, begravningar. Det är sådana små utflykter vi kan ta för givna, och inte ens tänker på som resor. Men om allt resande plötsligt förhindras, som när en pandemi bryter ut och gör all mänsklig närkontakt riskabel, är det inte främst jordenruntresorna vi saknar, utan mikroresorna människor emellan. När Egeria anlände till Odessa på sin pilgrimsfärd välkomnades hon med följande ord av stadens biskop: Min dotter, för religionens skull har du ålagt dig en så stor möda att du rest hit nästan från världens ände, och därför ska vi visa dig vilka platser du än vill se. De mödosamma, långa och makalösa resorna gör kanske störst avtryck i eftervärldens historieskrivning. Spårvagnsbiljetter och taxikvitton hamnar sällan i arkiven. Men de unika textdokumenten från den egyptiska antiken påminner oss om att resorna i det lilla alltid har utgjort kärnan i den mänskliga tillvaron. Anna Blennow, latinforskare och skribent. Litteratur Egeria. Resebrev från det heliga landet, översättning av Christina Sandquist Öberg, inledning och kommentar av Per Beskow, Artos & Norma bokförlag 2006. Maribel Dietz, Wandering monks, virgins, and pilgrims. Ascetic travel in the Mediterranean world, A.D. 300800, The Pennsylvania State University Press 2005. Sabine R. Huebner, Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament, Cambridge University Press 2019.

Season 3 of Cloister Talk will begin on Monday, May 3, 2021, and will feature ten brand-new episodes that expand on themes and concepts explored in The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press in 2020. This season of Cloister Talk is being launched in anticipation of the release of an affordable, paperback version of The Word in the Wilderness during summer, 2021. Season 3 offers some exciting, and different, features for fans of the first two seasons of Cloister Talk. Listen to the trailer to learn more.

We all learned in school about the Pythagorean theorem: in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.  Despite the name, this theorem probably wasn't discovered by Pythagoras; the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Indians, Chinese, and other Greeks all had a hand in developing it.Here are some resources to learn more about the Pythagorean theorem:Maor, Eli.  (2007).  The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History.  Princeton University Press.Swetz, Frank; Kao, T. I.  (1977).  Was Pythagoras Chinese?: An Examination of Right Triangle Theory in Ancient China.  Pennsylvania State University Press.Cut the Knot.  Pythagorean Theorem.  https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/ (122 proofs of the theorem visualized).Our intro and outro music is DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comPlease follow us on Twitter at @PrudentQPodcast, and contact us at halfofwisdom@gmail.com.

Begäret att resa sitter djupt i människan. Men måste en resa vara lång för att räknas? Poeten och latinforskaren Anna Blennow berättar om resande i antikens Egypten och ser kopplingar till vår tid. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Ni bör veta, ärade damer och systrar, att från det ställe där vi stod (...), på toppen av det mittersta berget, såg vi under oss (...) Egypten, Palestina, Röda havet och Parthenska havet, som sträcker sig till Alexandria, och saracenernas oändliga land. Man kan knappast tro det, men de heliga männen pekade ut allt detta för oss. Den som skriver det här är en kvinna. Det är allt vi vet säkert. Troligen hette hon Egeria och var från Spanien, och det var troligen i slutet av 300-talet som hon företog sin fyra år långa resa till platser som Jerusalem, Egypten, Syrien och Konstantinopel. Förmodligen tillhörde hon en klostergemenskap, och det är till systrarna där hon riktar sin reseberättelse. Texten, som återfanns i ett klosterbibliotek i Arezzo i slutet av 1800-talet, är en av de äldsta bevarade skildringarna av en kristen pilgrimsfärd. Egeria reste inte ensam. Hon talar om ett odefinierat vi, men texten gör det tydligt att hon var sällskapets ledare och möttes med aktning vart än hon kom. Resan genomfördes på åsnerygg ett för tiden mycket vanligt transportalternativ, robustare och billigare än hästar och ibland till fots om landskapet var för oländigt, till exempel när berget Sinai skulle bestigas. Antikens resenärer var främst soldater, ämbetsmän, handelsmän och budbärare, vars kringflackande ingick i deras profession. Att utan anledning vara på resande fot, eller att sakna fast bostad, ansågs både beklagansvärt och misstänkt. Men under senantiken började både kvinnor och män göra alltmer omfattande resor i religiösa ärenden, och själva förflyttningen och umbärandena på färden fick mening genom religiösa ideal. De som ständigt reste betraktades dock ofta med skepsis under den tidiga medeltiden. Regula Magistri, en klosterregel som nedtecknades på 500-talet, ägnar en av de längsta passagerna åt hur man skulle förhålla sig till de kringvandrande munkar som kallades gyrovagi, de som strövar omkring i cirklar. De betraktades som falska munkar eftersom de inte ville inordna sig under ett specifikt kloster, utan tillbringar sina liv som gäster under ett par dagar i taget vid olika kloster, eftersom de dagligen vill välkomnas som gäster på ständigt nya platser. Såväl deras rastlöshet som deras återkommande missbrukande av klostrens gästfrihet fördömdes grundligt. Pilgrimsfärder skulle senare under medeltiden bli en central del av den kristna praktiken, men vid flera tidiga kyrkokoncilier försökte man begränsa det religiösa resandet. Kyrkofadern Gregorios av Nyssa ansåg att pilgrimsfärder inte bara var onödiga utan rent skadliga, och målade upp livet i Jerusalem som omoraliskt och olämpligt för goda kristna. Även Augustinus avrådde. Resan skulle helst förbli mera harmlös metafor för människans livsfärd snarare än faktisk förflyttning. Varför reser vi? Hur påverkar det egentligen oss själva och dem vi besöker? Alltsedan antiken har vi rest i religionens namn, eller för att få vörda världsliga underverk som pyramiderna eller frihetsgudinnan. Vi reser för att söka ett varmare eller kallare klimat: såväl rika romare som medeltida påvar hade sommarvillor. Och resorna är kanske oftare nu än förr inriktade på konsumtion av upplevelser, varor och tjänster. Latinets ord peregrinus som blivit vårt pilgrim saknar från början religiös konnotation, och betyder i grunden främling eller resenär. Vi reser också för att bli främlingar, i flykt från vardagen. Vi reser likt rastlösa och nöjeslystna gyrovagi. Men vi reser också för att träffa släkt och vänner, mikroresor till andra sidan stan, mellan Ulricehamn och Borås, hem till Luleå över julen. Så reste man också förr. Sabine Huebner, professor i antikens historia, har utifrån de rika textkällor som finns bevarade från Egypten under romersk kejsartid gjort en studie av hur enklare befolkningsklasser levde. Det är förhållanden som i princip aldrig skymtar i de litterära texterna från den romerska antiken, vars upphovspersoner utgjorde ett fåtal välbeställda procent av det stora romarrikets invånare. Kortfattade anteckningar och kvitton på krukskärvor och papyrusremsor som bevarats i det torra ökenklimatet öppnar dörren till en värld av vardagsliv, där resor bortom de breda vägarna kan spåras. Precis som Egeria färdades man oftast med åsna eller till fots, men också med båt där det fanns vattenvägar. Tack vare bevarade kvitton vet vi till och med vad resorna kostade. Några dagars båtfärd till Alexandria gick på två månadslöner för en enkel arbetare, medan en åsna kunde hyras per dag för en bråkdel av den kostnaden, motsvarande två dagslöner. Varför reste man? Den främsta orsaken var handel och varutransporter, men det fanns också många långt mer privata skäl. Födslar, födelsedagar, sjukdom och begravningar ledde till täta besök av familjemedlemmar och släktingar som bodde på annan ort. Föräldrar som hade råd att skicka sina barn till närmaste större stad för utbildning reste dit på visit, och barnen kom ofta hem och hälsade på. Och inte bara människor rörde på sig. Bevarade brev som skickats med resenärer berättar om ständig skriftlig kommunikation mellan familjemedlemmar. En son skriver klagande till sin mor: Jag har skickat dig så många brev, och ändå har du inte sänt mig ett enda, trots att så många rest nedför floden sedan dess. Det här är det tredje brevet jag skickar dig, och du har fortfarande inte svarat, skriver en annan man till sin bror. Och textkällorna från det romerska Egypten har visat att även kvinnor reste i högre utsträckning än man tidigare trott. Den som väntade barn återvände ofta till sitt föräldrahem inför förlossningen, och det var också vanligt att kvinnor reste till gravida släktingar för att bistå vid födseln. De reste med sina män om dessa fått arbete långt från hemmet, eller i olika praktiska och professionella ärenden. I vår samtid är vi, precis som i antikens Egypten, i ständig förflyttning i så hög grad att vi nästan inte längre är medvetna om det. Att vara i rörelse är ett sätt att leva snarare än att resa, och för många är riktiga resor ofta synonyma med stora äventyr på andra sidan jorden. Men när det kommer till kritan bär mikroresorna på minst lika omvälvande existentiella erfarenheter: besöket hos de gamla föräldrarna, taxiresan till BB för den förstföddas ankomst, bröllopsfester, begravningar. Det är sådana små utflykter vi kan ta för givna, och inte ens tänker på som resor. Men om allt resande plötsligt förhindras, som när en pandemi bryter ut och gör all mänsklig närkontakt riskabel, är det inte främst jordenruntresorna vi saknar, utan mikroresorna människor emellan. När Egeria anlände till Odessa på sin pilgrimsfärd välkomnades hon med följande ord av stadens biskop: Min dotter, för religionens skull har du ålagt dig en så stor möda att du rest hit nästan från världens ände, och därför ska vi visa dig vilka platser du än vill se. De mödosamma, långa och makalösa resorna gör kanske störst avtryck i eftervärldens historieskrivning. Spårvagnsbiljetter och taxikvitton hamnar sällan i arkiven. Men de unika textdokumenten från den egyptiska antiken påminner oss om att resorna i det lilla alltid har utgjort kärnan i den mänskliga tillvaron. Anna Blennow, latinforskare och skribent. Litteratur Egeria. Resebrev från det heliga landet, översättning av Christina Sandquist Öberg, inledning och kommentar av Per Beskow, Artos & Norma bokförlag 2006. Maribel Dietz, Wandering monks, virgins, and pilgrims. Ascetic travel in the Mediterranean world, A.D. 300800, The Pennsylvania State University Press 2005. Sabine R. Huebner, Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament, Cambridge University Press 2019.

Dr. Robert Wolensky, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and Adjunct Professor of History at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, speaking about his study, "Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies' Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945-1965," issued by Pennsylvania State University Press. Part Two of a two-part series. www.psupress.org/

One of the most outspoken critics of Chairman Mao's cultural revolution was a young poet and journalist named Lin Zhao. She was a Christian convert, then a member of the Communist Party, then an enemy of the state who paid for her opposition with her life. She was executed by firing squad. And her story would have vanished—along with the lives of some two million other Chinese who were killed during the cultural revolution—but she left a record. She wrote her witness in her own blood. In this episode you'll encounter one of Christianity's most remarkable martyrs of the twentieth century. Professor Xi Lian joins us to discuss his latest book, Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, A Martyr in Mao's China. About the Guest XI LIAN, Professor of World Christianity at Duke Divinity School, is the author of Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, A Martyr in Mao's China (2018). His other books include The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997) and Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China (Yale University Press, 2010). Dr. Lian's other research projects include the flourishing of Christianity among minority peoples on the margins of the Chinese state and the emergence of Protestant elites and their prominent, if also precarious, role in the search for civil society in today's China. The post The untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China, with Xi Lian [MIPodcast #96] appeared first on Neal A. Maxwell Institute | BYU.

Dr Merike Blofield is associate professor of political science . A native of Finland, she has lived in Canada, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and the United States. Dr Blofield has published two books. These are Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America (published by Pennsylvania State University Press) and The Politics of Moral Sin: Abortion and Divorce in Spain, Chile and Argentina (published by Rutledge). She has also edited a volume called The Great Gap: Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America (published by Pennsylvania State University Press). Dr Blofield has won the National Women's Studies Association, Sara A. Whaley Book Award for 2013. Among other journals, she has published in Comparative Politics, Latin American Research Review and Social Politics. Given the ongoing ‘Repeal the 8th‘ campaign in Ireland and the ‘Black Protest‘ in Poland, it was incredibly informative to speak with an expert on how Catholicism has influenced abortion law internationally.

Heidi Abbey Moyer speaks with Bernadette Lear and Eric Novotny, the creators and editors of the new, academic journal, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society (LCHS), published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. The journal, LCHS, if the official peer-reviewed journal of the Library History Roundtable of the American Library Association. Bernadette is an academic librarian at Penn State Harrisburg in Middletown, PA, and the library faculty liaison to two academic schools, Behavioral Sciences and Education as well as (on an interim basis) Science, Engineering, and Technology. Eric is also an academic librarian and liaison to History, History and Philosophy of Science, and Middle East Studies at the Penn State University Libraries in University Park, PA.

For this week's show, Andy and Derek look at two examples of life writing and one Dracula-infused alternate history. They begin with Paula Knight's The Facts of Life, one of the latest in the Pennsylvania State University Press' Graphic Medicine series. This is the story of Knight and her partner's attempts to get pregnant, but more significantly, it's a personal account of the contexts and societal expectations surrounding motherhood. After that they look at Sara Lautman's Black and White Diary Comics, December 2016 - February 2017 (Birdcage Bottom Books), a collection of black-and-white strips that episodically chronicles the artist's life over the past few months. Finally, the Two Guys wrap up with with Anno Dracula #1 (Titan Comics), the next installment in Kim Newman's series of novels...this one in comics form. With art by Paul McCaffrey, this first miniseries, subtitled "1895: Seven Days in Mayhem," could stand as a solid introduction to Newman's vampiric storyworld.

Physician/author Ian Williams coined the term “graphic medicine” to “denote the role that comics can play in the study and delivery of healthcare.” The robust emerging graphic medicine community can be witnessed in its website and annual conference, as well as in the profusion of fascinating graphic medicine texts created from a range of perspectives, visions, and voices. Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press, 2015)–the first book in the exciting Graphic Medicine series at The Pennsylvania State University Press–introduces graphic medicine as a practice, a movement, and an ethos to the wide and diverse audience it deserves and will surely attract. This interview features three of the authors of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto: MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, and Susan Merrill Squier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

Physician/author Ian Williams coined the term “graphic medicine” to “denote the role that comics can play in the study and delivery of healthcare.” The robust emerging graphic medicine community can be witnessed in its website and annual conference, as well as in the profusion of fascinating graphic medicine texts created from a range of perspectives, visions, and voices. Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press, 2015)–the first book in the exciting Graphic Medicine series at The Pennsylvania State University Press–introduces graphic medicine as a practice, a movement, and an ethos to the wide and diverse audience it deserves and will surely attract. This interview features three of the authors of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto: MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, and Susan Merrill Squier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Physician/author Ian Williams coined the term “graphic medicine” to “denote the role that comics can play in the study and delivery of healthcare.” The robust emerging graphic medicine community can be witnessed in its website and annual conference, as well as in the profusion of fascinating graphic medicine texts created from a range of perspectives, visions, and voices. Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press, 2015)–the first book in the exciting Graphic Medicine series at The Pennsylvania State University Press–introduces graphic medicine as a practice, a movement, and an ethos to the wide and diverse audience it deserves and will surely attract. This interview features three of the authors of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto: MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, and Susan Merrill Squier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices