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Tiffany Jo Werth, "The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton" (Oxford UP, 2024)

The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm play a vital role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems, a role that, in t... more

Today • 46 min

Vin Nardizzi, "Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

John Gerard’s natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were used as needlework patterns, and strewn across it... more

Yesterday • 1 hr 42 min

Yair Mintzker, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition" (Princeton UP, 2026)

The story behind the mythical figure of "the Wandering Jew" is one of the most fascinating tales in European history. In I, Wandering Jew, National Jewish Book Award-winning historian Yair Mintzker traces the tale back to its source, follows its many... more

23 Apr 2026 • 42 min

Francis Young, "Fairies: A History" (John Wiley & Sons, 2026)

Many people think they know what fairies are, what a fairy looks like, and how a fairy is expected to behave. Dr. Francis Young's Fairies: A History (Polity, 2026) demonstrates that the truth about belief in fairies is far stranger than clichéd image... more

21 Apr 2026 • 40 min

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Karen Bowen

Co-author, The Burgeoning European Print Trade

Author, The Burgeoning European Print Trade (Harvey Miller, 2025)

Episode: Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof, "The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints Via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp" (Harvey Miller, 2025)

Dirk Imhof

Co-author, The Burgeoning European Print Trade

Episode: Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof, "The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints Via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp" (Harvey Miller, 2025)

Dominik Berrens

Classicist, Universität Mainz; author of Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science, The Case of Natural History

University of Mainz / ESC project Nos Chemos

Episode: Dominik Berrens, "Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: The Case of Natural History" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Wout Saelens

Author of Fossil Consumerism, Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries (Leuven University Press, 2026)

University of Antwerp; University of Brussels

Episode: Wout Saelens, "Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries" (Leuven UP, 2026)

Allan Greer

Author of Canada in the Age of Rum

McGill-Queen's University Press

Episode: Allan Greer, "Canada in the Age of Rum" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)

Gijs Kruijtzer

Author of Justifying Transgression, Muslim, Christians, and the Law, 1200 to 1700

Leiden University (and other institutions mentioned)

Episode: Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)

Claire Goldstein

Professor of French and Director of the Humanities Program at UC Davis

University of California, Davis

Episode: Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

Adrian Masters

Project Leader in the Department of History at Trer University; author of We the King, Creating Royal Legislation in the 16th Century Spanish World

Trer University

Episode: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters, "The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Alex Drysdell Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin; co-author of The Radical Spanish Empire, How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World

University of Texas at Austin

Episode: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters, "The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World" (Harvard UP, 2026)

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Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

Q: What did the institutional responses, like the Paris Observatory, reveal about the relationship between science and the state?

The observatory is shown not as a mere discovery engine but as a performative symbol of royal science meant to domesticate knowledge to fit political aims, highlighting centralization and state-centric vision over pure inquiry.

Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

Q: What kind of sources did you have access to for this project?

I drew from archival materials and museum/library collections in France, and included digitized text databases, allowing a broad, cross-disciplinary reading of both print and performance artifacts.

Claire Goldstein, "Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about how you came to this project and how you developed or limited your corpus?

I started with an inductive approach, noticing public street and square sky-gazing in Paris during the comets, then broadened to two primary comets to allow wide-ranging inquiry while staying anchored in a distinct French context.

Jon Stobart, "Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Q: So who were the clergy in the long eighteenth century, and how did their social position change over time?

The clergy were drawn from respectable to gentry backgrounds, often educated at universities, with livelihoods based on parsonages, tithes, and patronage. Over the century, gentry ties strengthened, larger incomes emerged for some, and the professionalized clerical class navigated a shifting social hierarchy, impacting their consumption and living standards.

Jon Stobart, "Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Q: For those who perhaps are not yet familiar with your work, could you introduce yourself and share the origin story of this book?

I'm a historian focusing on consumption and social life; the book grew from noticing how parish clergy, a rising middle-social group, lived materially and the way their houses reflected both status and religious duty. It combines archival inventories, diaries, and sermons to map how clerical life balanced dignity, duty, and material comfort.

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