Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities
Historian Peter Jones on Peter Abelard, logical analysis of the Scripture and what was the role of the univers...
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June 21, 2021
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May 31, 2021
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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May 10, 2021
Medieval Universities
Historian Peter Jones on the first European universities, different models of the education regulation and the...
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April 20, 2021
Education in the Middle Ages
Historian Peter Jones on monastic education, cathedral schools and apprenticeship in the Middle Ages
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March 23, 2021
Panopticon in Russia
Historian of Science Simon Werret on Michel Foucault, the Grigory Potemkin’s estate and theatricality of Samue...
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September 1, 2020
Knowledge in Art
Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on connoisseurship, how can we tell an original painting from a copy and why less...
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April 30, 2020
Materiality in the History of Christianity
Historian Peter Jones on the medieval obsession with relics, Christian heresies and why we shouldn’t reduce ob...
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March 24, 2020
History of Laughter
Historian Peter Jones on three theories of laughter, humour as a way of doing politics and how laughter was pe...
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September 13, 2019
Love and Pain
Historian Peter Jones on love as a contract, religious love in middle ages and why love is tied to self-sacrif...
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August 14, 2018
Theory-Change and Scientific Realism
Professor of Philosophy of Science John Worrall on scientific revolutions, continuity of science, and the chan...
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July 31, 2018
Modern Nationalism
Historian Richard Bourke on the components of nationalism, national identity, and the role of ideology and the...
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July 17, 2018
Monetary Revolution in the 11th century England
Historian Rory Naismith on the monk Ælfric Bata, the formation of the English monetary system, and the silver ...
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