223 Early Modern Poverty; The Medieval Roots
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Last episode we had the emotional episode about the sufferings of paupers in 16th century Italy. So we are now done.. with autophagy, ca...
2 Sep 38min
222. Early Modern Poverty, the Worst of it.
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Quoting Dante: “The disease of the starving, I mean hunger, is a pitiable affliction. Of human calamities hunger is certainly supreme. ...
26 Aug 39min
221. Changes in the Life of a Knight
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are trying to take a look at the life of a knight. A look at the life in full, stripped of idealizations and self righteous outrage o...
12 Aug 38min
220. The Civilizing Process; The Knights, Aggression and Torture
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are going to start with trivialities, then get into some serious differences between now and the medieval psyche. Around gross stuff,...
29 Jul 1h 3min
219. The Civilizing Process
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. It was probably while the brutal siege in Vienna went on, and the little boys and girls of the region were being sold into slavery, after...
22 Jul 38min
218. Erasmus and the Siege of Vienna
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. There are two stories here, their opposition is part of a theme. Erasmus, the great Erasmus , Erasmus of Rotterdam was even more a prod...
8 Jul 28min
217. How to Tear the West Apart
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A miner’s son, decided one day, to nail 95 thesis to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg in the year of our lord 1517. It seems ...
1 Jul 41min
216. 1453, Before Humanism and the Reformation
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We explore the roots of Humanism and the Reformation. Taking a long look at the Devotio Moderna, the Brethren of the Common Life. These...
17 Jun 34min
