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Bradford A. Bouley, "The Barberini Butchers: Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

In 1644 four norcini

or pork butchers were accused of killing not pigs, but seven of their

fellow citizens, stripping the meat from the bones, then combining it

with pig to make sausages, which were then sold to Romans from their

shop behind the ... more

18 Jul 2026 • 49 min • Most popular

Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)

Today’s guest, Krzysztof Rowiński, is the author of Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film

(Routledge, 2026). This book focuses on the concept of non- redemptive

failure, a type of failure that is not part of a ... more

7 Jul 2026 • 45 min

Catherine Fletcher, "The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires" (Princeton UP, 2026)

In Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a

desirable object, a luxury item carried at court. Guns were in use on

the battlefield by 1440; later in that century Leonardo da Vinci

sketched a design for a faster-firing, more ... more

23 Jun 2026 • 46 min

Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)

Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still undergird the global economy today. A key institution of early modern risk management was General Average, ... more

15 Jun 2026 • 51 min

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Brad Bouley

Author; History Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

Episode: Bradford A. Bouley, "The Barberini Butchers: Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

Krzysztof Rowiński

Professor of literary comparativism, author of Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption, 20th Century Literature and Film

Trinity College Dublin

Episode: Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)

Catherine Fletcher

Historian of Renaissance Italy

Manchester Metropolitan University

Episode: Catherine Fletcher, "The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Jacob Dyble

Author, Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe

University of Padova

Episode: Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)

Susanna Drake

Professor of Religious Studies at Macalister College

Macalister College

Episode: Susanna Drake, "Veiling in the Late Antique World" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Paola de Santo

Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

Episode: Paola De Santo, "The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Renaissance Italy" (U Delaware Press, 2026)

David Potter

Professor of Greek and Roman History

University of Michigan

Episode: David Potter, "Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Marta Lorimer

Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University; co-editor of the Journal of Political Research and Exchange

Cardiff University

Episode: Marta Lorimer, "Europe As Ideological Resource: European Integration and Far Right Legitimation in France and Italy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Martha Feldman

Professor of music and humanities, author of Castrato Phantoms, Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome

University of Chicago

Episode: Martha Feldman, "Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome" (Zone Books, 2026)

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Bradford A. Bouley, "The Barberini Butchers: Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

Q: What ultimately ended the meat moment and what were its long-term implications?

A combination of military conflict, notably the War of Castro, and the papacy's inability to sustain supply lines led to a rapid collapse of meat imports; this undermined papal political ambitions and had lasting environmental and social consequences in the region.

Bradford A. Bouley, "The Barberini Butchers: Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

Q: Why were the popes so concerned with meat consumption and supply in Rome during this period?

Because meat served as a political instrument and a symbol of religious authority; controlling meat allowed the papacy to dramatize its power, feed a display of magnificence, and reinforce its role as both spiritual and temporal ruler.

Catherine Fletcher, "The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Q: What lessons might contemporary policymakers draw from this history about gun ownership and regulation?

The host and Fletcher emphasize that many debates about gun ownership, regulation, and social impact are deeply historic, suggesting that historical perspective can help frame current discussions and potentially reduce heated polarization by focusing on underlying social and political dynamics.

Catherine Fletcher, "The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Q: How do you see the relationship between guns and empire, and what does that tell us about European expansion?

The discussion clarifies that guns did not by themselves drive conquest, but the imperial context reframed firearms as symbols of European power and Christian mission. This mythologizing helped normalize guns in Europe and in artistic representations linked to colonial projects.

Catherine Fletcher, "The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Q: How did guns move from a military technology to everyday life in Italy, including civilian and elite use?

Fletcher describes militia service as the key to normalization, with civic militias and shooting contests embedding gun use in everyday life. She also details elite practices like decorated and novelty guns, linking weaponry to social status and court culture while balancing regulation to manage public safety.

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