History writing
Posted on 18 November 2018
The larger meaning of history in the chronicles written by Michael Psellos, Michael Attaleiates, Anna Komnene, and Niketas Choniates.
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Posted on 2 December 2018
Princess Anna Komnene makes good use of her political retirement by writing her Alexiad and gathering a circle of scholars to write commentaries on Aristotle.
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Posted on 24 March 2019
Historian Judith Herrin joins us to talk about competition and mutual influence between Islam and Byzantium.
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Posted on 17 May 2020
Machiavelli’s seminal work of political advice, The Prince, tells the ruler how to be strong like a lion and cunning like a fox.
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Posted on 31 May 2020
Peter celebrates reaching 350 episodes by explaining a single sentence in Machiavelli's "Discourses."
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Posted on 14 June 2020
Leading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses.
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Posted on 28 June 2020
Bruni, Poggio, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini explore political ideas and historical method in works on Roman and Italian history.
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Posted on 7 February 2021
The ANA unites leading African American scholars of the early 20th century, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Ferris, Archibald Grimké, and Kelly Miller (pictured).
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Posted on 21 February 2021
We chat with Tommy Curry about African-American thought between the turn of the century and the Harlem Renaissance.
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Posted on 25 July 2021
Pioneering historian Carter G. Woodson argues for a new approach to education and economic uplift.
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Posted on 26 December 2021
The Trinidadian historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James applies Marxist analysis to the Haitian Revolution, American cinema, and Shakespeare.
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Posted on 9 January 2022
Two Trinidadian political thinkers: sociologist Oliver Cox analyzes the nature of racial prejudice, and historian Eric Williams connects capitalism to slavery.
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Posted on 4 December 2022
The polymath Jean Bodin produces a pioneering theory of political sovereignty along the way to defending the absolute power of the French king.
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Posted on 1 January 2023
Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, and Guillaume du Vair grapple with history and the events of their own day.
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Posted on 15 December 2013
The historian Ibn Khaldūn applies the methods of philosophy to understand the rise and fall of political regimes.
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