Law
Posted on 14 April 2013
The roots of Jewish philosophy in the Islamic world, focusing on the Rabbinic background in the Mishnah and Talmud, and the thought of early figures like Isaac Israeli.
Posted on 21 April 2013
Saadia Gaon draws on philosophy and Islamic theology to provide a rational account of Jewish belief.
Posted on 27 October 2013
The development of Islamic law and jurisprudence (fiqh), and the many-sided output of the legal theorist Ibn Ḥazm.
Posted on 22 June 2014
The controversial jurist Ibn Taymiyya sets forth an originalist theory of law and a searching criticism of the philosophers’ logic.
Posted on 12 April 2015
Gratian and Peter Lombard help bring scholasticism to maturity by systematizing law and theology.
Posted on 17 April 2015
A discussion about Roman law and its reception in the medieval period, with ancient law expert Caroline Humfress.
Posted on 31 January 2016
Natural law and political legitimacy in thirteenth century thinkers up to and including Thomas Aquinas.
Posted on 2 July 2017
An interview with Monica Green reveals parallels between medicine and philosophy in the middle ages.
Posted on 11 February 2018
Jean Gerson’s role in the political disputes of his day, the spread of lay devotion and affective mysticism, and the debate over the Romance of the Rose initiated by Christine de Pizan.
Posted on 18 March 2018
The host of the History of India podcast joins us for the final episode on India.
Posted on 29 April 2018
Do the cuneiform writings of Babylonian culture show that it had its own philosophy?
Posted on 21 October 2018
Byzantine political thought from the time of Justinian down to the Palaiologos dynasty wrestles with the nature and scope of imperial power.
Posted on 13 January 2019
Legal and economic thought in Byzantium: the sources of the law’s authority, the relation of church and civil law, just price, and just war.
Posted on 7 March 2021
West African intellectuals like J.E. Casely-Hayford (pictured) and Mojola Agbebi build upon Edward Blyden’s ideas at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Posted on 3 April 2022
The story of Martin Luther King Jr. up to 1963, focusing on the development of his philosophy of nonviolence.
Posted on 14 August 2022
Peter reads the first chapter of his new book Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy, available from University of Notre Dame Press. Pre-order with the code 14FF20 from undpress.nd.edu, to get a 20% discount!
Posted on 5 February 2023
The career and ideas of Nelson Mandela up to the time of his imprisonment, in the context of the founding of the African National Congress.
