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Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on Peter Abelard, logical analysis of the Scripture and what was the role of the universities in the Middle Ages

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Student Life in the Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on the seven liberal arts, first textbooks and drinking as part of the student culture

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Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on the first European universities, different models of the education regulation and the proliferation of universities at the end of the Middle Ages

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Education in the Middle Ages

Historian Peter Jones on monastic education, cathedral schools and apprenticeship in the Middle Ages

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Panopticon in Russia

Historian of Science Simon Werret on Michel Foucault, the Grigory Potemkin’s estate and theatricality of Samuel Bentham’s panopticon

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Knowledge in Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on connoisseurship, how can we tell an original painting from a copy and why lesser details are so important in art

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Materiality in the History of Christianity

Historian Peter Jones on the medieval obsession with relics, Christian heresies and why we shouldn’t reduce objects just down to their function or purpose

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History of Laughter

Historian Peter Jones on three theories of laughter, humour as a way of doing politics and how laughter was perceived in the Medieval Europe

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Love and Pain

Historian Peter Jones on love as a contract, religious love in middle ages and why love is tied to self-sacrifice

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Theory-Change and Scientific Realism

Professor of Philosophy of Science John Worrall on scientific revolutions, continuity of science, and the change of Newtonian physics by Einstein's theory