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Classical Greek
Presocratics
- 1. Thales
- 2. Anaximander, Anaximenes
- 3. Xenophanes
- 4. Pythagoras
- 5. Heraclitus
- 6. McCabe on Heraclitus
- 7. Parmenides
- 8. Zeno and Melissus
- 9. Atomism
- 10. Anaxagoras
- 11. Empedocles
- 12. Schofield on Presocratics
- 13. Hippocrates
- 14. Sophists
- 500a. Johnson on Sappho
- 500b. Lane on Greek historians
Socrates and Plato
- 15. Socrates without Plato
- 16. Plato's Socrates
- 17. Woolf on Socrates
- 18. Plato's Life and Works
- 19. Charmides, Euthydemus
- 20. Plato's Gorgias
- 21. Plato's Meno
- 22. Plato's Theaetetus
- 23. McCabe on Plato
- 24. Plato's Phaedo
- 25. Plato's Republic pt.1
- 26. Plato's Republic pt.2
- 27. Plato's Parmenides
- 28. Leigh on the Sophist
- 29. Plato's Cratylus
- 30. Plato's Timaeus
- 31. Plato's Erotic Dialogues
- 32. Sheffield on Platonic Love
- 33. Plato on Myth
Aristotle
- 34. Aristotle's Life and Works
- 35. Aristotle's Logic
- 36. Aristotle's Epistemology
- 37. Hugh Benson on Aristotle
- 38. Aristotle on Substance
- 39. Aristotle's Four Causes
- 40. Aristotle's Physics
- 41. Sorabji on Aristotle
- 42. Aristotle on Soul
- 43. Aristotle's Biology
- 44. Aristotle's Ethics 1
- 45. Aristotle's Ethics 2
- 46. Scott on Aristotle
- 47. Aristotle on Mind and God
- 48. Political Philosophy
- 49. Rhetoric, Poetics
- 50. Aristotle on Plato
- 51. Successors
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Later Antiquity
Hellenistic
- 52. Hellenistic Schools
- 53. The Cynics
- 54. The Cyrenaics
- 55. Epicurus' Principles
- 56. Epicurean Ethics
- 57. Epicurean Therapy
- 58. Lucretius
- 59. Warren on Epicurus
- 60. Stoic Logic
- 61. Stoic Epistemology
- 62. Stoic Physics
- 63. Stoic Ethics
- 64. Sedley on Stoicism
- 65. Seneca
- 66. Epictetus
- 67. Marcus Aurelius
- 68. Sellars on Roman Stoics
- 69. Pyrrho
- 70. New Academy
- 71. Cicero
- 72. Woolf on Cicero
- 73. Sextus Empiricius
- 74. Long on the Self
- 75. Ancient Medicine
- 76. Hankinson on Galen
Late Antiquity
- 77. Introduction
- 78. Middle Platonism
- 79. Philo of Alexandria
- 80. Plutarch
- 81. Opsomer on Platonism
- 82. Aristotelianism
- 83. Alexander of Aphrodisias
- 84. Rhetoric and Philosophy
- 85. Astronomy and Astrology
- 86. Cuomo on Mathematics
- 87. Plotinus Life and Works
- 88. Plotinus on the One
- 89. Plotinus on the Soul
- 90. Plotinus on Matter & Evil
- 91. Wilberding on Plotinus
- 92. Porphyry
- 93. Iamblichus
- 94. Proclus
- 95. Sheppard on Aesthetics
- 96. O'Meara on Neoplatonism
- 97. The Last Pagans
- 98. Philoponus
- 99. Sorabji - the Commentators
- 100. Ancient Culture
Ancient Christianity
- 101. Introduction
- 102. Greek Church Fathers
- 103. Origen
- 104. Cappadocians
- 105. Pseudo-Dionysius
- 106. Maximus the Confessor
- 107. Asceticism
- 108. Boys-Stones - Patristics
- 109. Latin Church Fathers
- 110. Augustine's Confessions
- 111. Augustine on Language
- 112. Augustine on Freedom
- 113. Augustine City of God
- 114. Byers on Augustine
- 115. Augustine on Mind
- 116. Brittain on Augustine
- 117. Latin Platonism
- 118. Boethius
- 119. Marenbon on Boethius
- 500c. Engberg-Pedersen on Paul
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Islamic World
Formative Period
- 120. Philosophy and Islam
- 121. Mu'tazilites
- 122. Translation Movement
- 123. Al-Kindī
- 124. Judaism and Philosophy
- 125. Saadia Gaon
- 126. Al-RÄzÄ«
- 127. Pormann on Medicine
- 128. The Baghdad School
- 129. Al-FÄrÄbÄ«
- 130. Al-FÄrÄbÄ« Political
- 131. Black on al-FÄrÄbÄ«
- 132. Vision
- 133. Music and Philosophy
- 134. Arabic Ethics
- 135. The Būyid Age
- 136. Daftary on IsmÄ'Ä«lism
- 137. Ash'arites
- 138. Avicenna's Life
- 139. Avicenna on Existence
- 140. Avicenna on God
- 141. Avicenna on Soul
- 142. Gutas on Avicenna
- 143. Al-GhazÄlÄ«
- 144. Al-GhazÄlÄ« "Incoherence"
- 145. Griffel on al-GhazÄlÄ«
- 500d. Ted Good on Zoroastrianism
Andalusia
- 146. Introduction
- 147. Islamic Law
- 148. Ibn Ṭufayl
- 149. Averroes
- 150. Arabic into Latin
- 151. Averroes on Intellect
- 152. Taylor on Averroes
- 153. Ibn 'Arabī's mysticism
- 154. Ibn Khaldūn
- 155. Ibn Gabirol
- 156. Pessin Jewish Platonism
- 157. Judah Hallevi
- 158. Freedom and Astrology
- 159. Ethics and Judaism
- 160. Maimonides
- 161. Maimonides on eternity
- 162. Stroumsa on Maimonides
- 163. Maimonides Controversy
- 164. Gersonides
- 165. Crescas
- 166. Rudavsky Interview
- 167. Book of Job
- 168. Kabbalah
- 169. Albo and Abravanel
- 170. Freudenthal Interview
Eastern Traditions
- 171. Introduction
- 172. Al-BaghdÄdÄ«
- 173. Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RÄzÄ«
- 174. Suhrawardī
- 175. Illuminationism
- 176. Al-Ṭūsī
- 177. Existence Debate
- 178. Rūmī and Sufism
- 179. Rustom on Sufism
- 180. Logical Tradition
- 181. Ibn Taymiyya
- 182. Mongol Era
- 183. Shiraz
- 184. Wisnovsky Commentaries
- 185. Safavids
- 186. MullÄ á¹¢adrÄ on Existence
- 187. MullÄ á¹¢adrÄ on Motion
- 188. Rizvi on MullÄ á¹¢adrÄ
- 189. Islamic India
- 190. Ottoman Empire
- 191. European Encounters
- 192. Women and Islam
- 193. 'Abduh and IqbÄl
- 194. After á¹¢adrÄ
- 195. von Kügelgen Interview
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Medieval
Early Medieval
- 196. Introduction
- 197. Carolingian Renaissance
- 198. Eriugena on Freedom
- 199. Eriugena's Periphyseon
- 200. Kraye and Marenbon
- 201. Gersh on Platonism
- 202. Roots of Scholasticism
- 203. Can God Change the Past?
- 204. Anselm's Life and Works
- 205. The Ontological Argument
- 206. Sweeney on Anselm
- 207. Problem of Universals
- 208. Heloise and Abelard
- 209. Abelardâs Ethics
- 210. Marenbon on Abelard
- 211. The Victorines
- 212. Debating the Trinity
- 213. Philosophy at Chartres
- 214. Philosophy of Nature
- 215. Medieval Podcasters
- 216. Individuation
- 217. Arlig on Mereology
- 218. Early Political
- 219. Gratian and Lombard
- 220. Humfress on Law
- 221. Hildegard of Bingen
- 222. Translations into Latin
- 223. Rise of the Universities
- 224. Emery on Institutions
- 500e. Watson on Ireland
Thirteenth Century
- 225. 13th Century Logic
- 226. 13th Century Physics
- 227. 13th Century Psychology
- 228. The Transcendentals
- 229. 13th Century Ethics
- 230. Robert Grosseteste
- 231. Roger Bacon
- 232. Burnett on Magic
- 233. Bonaventure
- 234. Peter Olivi
- 235. Toivanen on Animals
- 236. Franciscan Poverty
- 237. Hadewijch and Mechthild
- 238. Robert Kilwardby
- 239. Dutilh Novaes on Logic
- 240. Albert on Nature
- 241. Albert's Metaphysics
- 242. Cory on Self-Awareness
- 243. Thomas Aquinas
- 244. Aquinas Soul Knowledge
- 245. Ethics in Albert, Aquinas
- 246. The Rule of Law
- 247. Just War Theory
- 248. MacDonald on Aquinas
- 249. The Condemnations
- 250. Q&A
- 251. "Latin Averroism"
- 252. Eternity of the World
- 253. Speculative Grammar
- 254. Romance of the Rose
- 255. Speer Medieval Aesthetics
- 256. Henry of Ghent
- 257. Pickavé on Henry of Ghent
- 258. Trinity Eucharist
- 259. Cross on the Trinity
- 260. Scotus on Being
- 261. Scotus on Freedom
- 262. Scotus on Ethics
- 263. Scotus on Universals
- 264. Pini on Scotus
Fourteenth Century
- 265. Introduction to 14th c.
- 266. Pink on the Will
- 267. Marguerite Porete
- 268. Dante Alighieri
- 269. Church and State
- 270. Marsilius of Padua
- 271. Ockham Ethics Politics
- 272. Ockhamâs Nominalism
- 273. Ockham on Mental Language
- 274. Brower-Toland on Ockham
- 275. Responses to Ockham
- 276. Foreknowledge
- 277. 14th Century Logic
- 278. Uckelman on Obligations
- 279. Oxford Calculators
- 280. 14th Century Physics
- 281. Green on Medicine
- 282. John Buridan
- 283. Zupko on Buridan
- 284. Autrecourt's Skepticism
- 285. Perler on Skepticism
- 286. Medieval Economic Theory
- 287. Meister Eckhart
- 288. German Dominicans
- 289. Angels
- 290. Pickavé on Emotions
- 291. English Mysticism
- 292. Chaucer and Langland
- 293. Gender and Sexuality
- 294. Davis on Chaucer
- 295. Jean Gerson
- 296. John Wyclif
- 297. Scholasticism in Europe
- 298. Ramon Llull and Petrarch
- 299. Pasnau on Substance
- 300a. Ancient Philosophy Today
- 300b Medieval Philosophy Today
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Byzantine
Byzantine
- 301. Introduction
- 302. Syriac and Armenian
- 303. Iconoclasm
- 304. John of Damascus
- 305. Louth on John of Damascus
- 306. Photius
- 307. Michael Psellos
- 308. O'Meara on Psellos
- 309. John Italos
- 310. Political Philosophy
- 311. Rhetoric in Byzantium
- 312. Byzantine Historiography
- 313. Anna Komnene
- 314. Ierodiakonou Commentaries
- 315. Gender in Byzantium
- 316. Law, Money, and War
- 317. Manuscripts
- 318. Primavesi on Manuscripts
- 319. The Proclus Revival
- 320. Byzantium and Islam
- 321. Herrin Byzantium & Islam
- 322. Palaiologan Science
- 323. Palamas and Hesychasm
- 324. Latin in Byzantium
- 325. Gemistos Plethon
- 326. Later Orthodox
- 327. Trizio on East and West
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Renaissance / Reformation
Italian Renaissance
- 328. Introduction
- 329. Greek Scholars in Italy
- 330. Italian Humanism
- 331. Lorenzo Valla
- 332. Kraye on Humanism
- 333. Humanist Ethics
- 334. Reviving Hellenistic
- 335. Ebbersmeyer on Emotions
- 336. Christine de Pizan
- 337. Italian Women Humanists
- 338. Defense of Women
- 339. Florentine Platonism
- 340. Marsilio Ficino
- 341. Theories of Love
- 342. Robichaud on Plato
- 343. Jewish Philosophy
- 344. Pico della Mirandola
- 345. Human Nature
- 346. Muratori on Animals
- 347. Savonarola
- 348. Civic Humanism
- 349. Machiavelli
- 350. Machiavelli Republicanism
- 351. Skinner on Machiavelli
- 352. Renaissance Histories
- 353. Italian Utopias
- 354. Renaissance Economics
- 355. Italian Universities
- 356. Aristotle Reception
- 357. Lines on Aristotle
- 358. Pomponazzi and Nifo
- 359. Zabarella
- 360. Hasse on Arabic Learning
- 361. Mathematics and Art
- 362. Renaissance Medicine
- 363. Cardano
- 364. Giglioni on Medicine
- 365. Telesio and Campanella
- 366. Magic and Astrology
- 367. Copenhaver on Magic
- 368. Giordano Bruno
- 369. Galileo and Renaissance
- 370. Rowland on Rome
Central Europe
- 371. Introduction
- 372. Printing Press
- 373. Northern Humanism
- 374. Nicholas of Cusa
- 375. Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
- 376. Erasmus
- 377. Northern Scholasticism
- 378. Martin Luther
- 379. Roper on Luther
- 380. Erasmus vs Luther
- 381. Melanchthon
- 382. The Peasantsâ War
- 383. Huldrych Zwingli
- 384. John Calvin
- 385. Protestant Scholasticism
- 386. Cornelius Agrippa
- 387. Hattab on Protestantism
- 388. Paracelsus and Alchemy
- 389. Theories of Matter
- 390. Dutch Toleration
- 391. Lipsius and Stoicism
- 392. Sellars on Modern Stoics
- 393. Copernicus
- 394. Tycho Brahe
- 395. Kepler
- 396. Daston on Science
France
- 397. French Humanism
- 398. Marguerite of Navarre
- 399. Rabelais
- 400. Philosophy Podcasters
- 401. Logic and Language
- 402. Medicine
- 403. Peter Ramus
- 404. Goulding on Ramus
- 405. Ramism
- 406. Toleration in France
- 407. Antognazza on Toleration
- 408. The Huguenots
- 409. Jean Bodin
- 410. Blair on Bodin
- 411. Later French Humanism
- 412. Montaigne
- 413. French Skepticism
- 414. Lagerlund on Skepticism
- 415. Marie de Gournay
Britain
- 416. English Reformation
- 417. Scottish Reformation
- 418. MacCulloch on Britain
- 419. British Humanism
- 420. Thomas More
- 421. English Political
- 422. Richard Hooker
- 423. Elizabethan Poetry
- 424. Shakespeare
- 425. Gray on Shakespeare
- 426. Hamlet and Individualism
- 427. Tempest and Colonialism
- 428. Macbeth and Witchcraft
- 429. Womenâs Spiritual Literat
- 430. British Scholasticism
- 431. Normore on Scholasticism
- 432. John Dee
- 433. Science in England
- 434. Theories of Vision
- 435. Gilbert and Magnetism
- 436. Robert Fludd
- 437. Rampling on Alchemy
Catholic Reformation
- 438. Introduction
- 439. The Inquisition
- 440. Exploration and Science
- 441. New World Debate
- 442. Williams on Disability
- 443. Iberian Humanism
- 444. Spanish Mysticism
- 445. The Jesuits
- 446. Aquinas Revival
- 447. Messmer Protestants Spain
- 448. Iberian Scholasticism
- 449. Tropia on Jesuits
- 450. Two Renaissance Artworks
- 451. Free will in Molina
- 452. Scholastic Metaphysics
- 453. Scholastic Law
- 454. Scholastic Politics
- 455. Pink on Suárez
- 456. Cervantesâ Don Quixote
- 457. Sabuco and Erculiani
- 458. The Cheese and the Worms
- 459. Bellarmine
- 460. Galileo's Trial
- 461. Reeves on Galileo
- Early Modern
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India
Origins
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Historical Overview
- 3. The Vedic Period
- 4. The Upanisads
- 5. The Self in the Upanisads
- 6. Karma
- 7. Black on the Upanisads
- 8. Panini's Grammar
- 9. The Buddha
- 10. The Buddhaâs Teaching
- 11. Kautilya and Ashoka
- 12. Gethin on Buddhism
- 13. The Mahabharata
- 14. The Bhagavad-Gita
- 15. Non-Violence
- 16. Women in Ancient India
- 17. Frazier on Hinduism
Age of the Sutra
- 18. Age of the Sutra
- 19. Rise of Skepticism
- 20. Mimamsa-Sutra
- 21. Mimamsa on Knowledge
- 22. Freschi on Mimamsa
- 23. Vedanta-Sutra
- 24. Advaita Vedanta
- 25. Bhartrihari on Language
- 26. Clooney on Vedanta
- 27. Samkhya
- 28. Ayurvedic Medicine
- 29. Yoga-Sutra
- 30. Maas on Yoga
- 31. Nyaya-Sutra
- 32. Nyaya on Perception
- 33. Nyaya on Reasoning
- 34. Nyaya on the Mind
- 35. Jha and Jha on Nyaya
- 36. Vaisesika-Sutra
- 37. Vaisesika on Complexity
- 38. Theories of Time
- 39. Naturalism
- 40. Materialism
- 41. Chadha on Mind
- 42. Aesthetics of Rasa
Buddhists and Jains
- 43. Buddhists and Jains
- 44. Nagarjuna on Emptiness
- 45. Nagarjuna on Change
- 46. Nagarjunaâs Tetralemma
- 47. Westerhoff on Nagarjuna
- 48. Jain Theory of Standpoints
- 49. Jains on Truth
- 50. Gorisse Jain Epistemology
- 51. Vasubandhu and Yogacara
- 52. Dignaga on Perception
- 53. Dignaga's Logic
- 54. Graham Priest on Buddhism
- 55. Dignaga on Consciousness
- 56. Buddhaghosa
- 57. Tantra
- 58. Carpenter on Animals
- 59. Indian Influence on Greece
- 60. Influence on Islam, Europe
- 61. Later Indian Philosophy
- 62. Kit Patrick
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Africana
Precolonial
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Prehistoric Africa
- 3. Ancient Mesopotamia
- 4. Ancient Egypt
- 5. Egyptian Instructions
- 6. Egyptian Narratives
- 7. Parkinson on Egypt
- 8. Early Ethiopian Philosophy
- 9. Zera Yacob
- 10. Walda Heywat
- 11. Kiros on Ethiopia
- 12. Subsaharan Islam
- 13. Sokoto Caliphate
- 14. Diagne on Islam in Africa
- 15. Oral Philosophy in Africa
- 16. Imbo on Okot p'Bitek
- 17. Philosophy of Time
- 18. God in African Philosophy
- 19. Philosophy of the Person
- 20. Communalism
- 21. Divination and Witchcraft
- 22. Gender in Africa
- 23. Nzegwu on Gender
- 24. Professional School
- 25. Sage Philosophy
- 26. Kresse on Anthropology
- 27. Beyond the Reaction
- 28. Jeffers African Philosophy
Slavery / Diaspora
- 29. Introduction
- 30. Anton Wilhelm Amo
- 31. Smith on Amo
- 32. Early Writing in English
- 33. Phillis Wheatley
- 34. Lemuel Haynes
- 35. Sancho and Banneker
- 36. Cugoano and Equiano
- 37. Haitian Revolution
- 38. Baron de Vastey
- 39. Garraway on Haiti
- 40. Early Black Institutions
- 41. Colonization Controversy
- 42. Sidbury African Identity
- 43. David Walker
- 44. Maria W. Stewart
- 45. Hosea Easton
- 46. Rogers Political Thought
- 47. Frederick Douglass
- 48. Douglass Speeches
- 49. Henry Highland Garnet
- 50. Martin Delany
- 51. Truth and Harper
- 52. Emigration to Canada
- 53. Alexander Crummell
- 54. Moses on Nationalism
- 55. Africanus Horton
- 56. Edward Blyden
- 57. T. Thomas Fortune
- 58. Anténor Firmin
- 59. Thomas and Durham
- 60. Abolitionism in Brazil
- 61. Anna Julia Cooper
- 62. Ida B. Wells
- 63. Cooper on Women Activists
- 64. Henry McNeal Turner
- 65. Booker T. Washington
- 66. Introducing Du Bois
- 67. Jeffers on Part Two
Africana 20th Century
- 68. Introduction
- 69. American Negro Academy
- 70. Curry on Early 20th C.
- 71. West African Intellectuals
- 72. African American Socialism
- 73. Wills on Marxism
- 74. Marcus Garvey
- 75. Two Amy Garveys
- 76. Dawson on Garvey
- 77. Harlem Renaissance
- 78. Alain Locke
- 79. Harris on Locke
- 80. Professional Philosophers
- 81. Carter G. Woodson
- 82. Zora Neale Hurston
- 83. The Negro Spiritual
- 84. Later Du Bois
- 85. Bright on Du Bois
- 86. Negritude
- 87. Leopold Senghor
- 88. Aimé and Suzanne Césaire
- 89. E. Franklin Frazier
- 90. C.L.R. James
- 91. Cox and Williams
- 92. Claudia Jones
- 93. Boyce Davies on Jones
- 94. Richard Wright
- 95. Ralph Ellison
- 96. James Baldwin
- 97. Martin Luther King Jr
- 98. Krishnamurthy on King
- 99. Malcolm X
- 100. Jeffers on Part Three
- 101. Later Malcolm X and MLK
- 102. Juan Rene Betancourt
- 103. Azikiwe & Awolowo
- 104. Kwame Nkrumah
- 105. Fanon Black Skin
- 106. Fanon Wretched
- 107. Gordon on Fanon
- 108. Lorraine Hansberry
- 109. Black Power
- 110. Black Panthers
- 111. Maulana Karenga
- 112. Black Arts Movement
- 113. Black Theology
- 114. Julius Nyerere
- 115. AmÃlcar Cabral
- 116. Taiwo x 2 on Cabral
- 117. Mandela and the ANC
- 118. Nascimento
- 119. Afrofuturism
- 120. Reggae & Rastafari
- 121. Kuti and Soyinka
- 122. Steve Biko
- 123. Walter Rodney
- 124. Black Feminism
- 125. Angelou, Morrison, Walker
- 126. Angela Davis
- 127. Audre Lorde
- 128. hooks and Collins
- 129. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- 130. Ngũgĩ interview
- 131. Cultural Studies
- 132. Glissant and Créolité
- 133. Drabinski on Glissant
- 134. Cedric Robinson
- 135. Sylvia Wynter
- 136. African-Centered Thought
- 137. Asanteâs Afrocentricity
- 138. Critical Race Theory
- 139. Cornel West
- 140. Cornel West Interview
- 141. Professional Philosophy
- 142. Final Chat with Chike
- China
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293. The Good Wife: Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages
Medieval attitudes towards homosexuality, sex and chastity, and the status of women. Authors discussed include Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Chaucer.
⢠P. Allen, The Concept of Woman, vol.1: the Aristotelian Revolution, 750BC-AD 1250 (Montreal: 1985).
⢠A. Blamires, The Case for Women in Medieval Culture (Oxford: 1997).
⢠V.L. Bullough and J.A. Brundage (eds), Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (New York: 1996).
⢠C.W. Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley: 1987).
⢠C.W. Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (New York: 1992).
⢠C. Dinshaw and D. Wallace, Cambridge Companion to Medieval Womenâs Writing (Cambridge: 2003).
⢠P. Dronke, Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Cambridge: 1984).
⢠M.H. Green, Making Womenâs Medicine Masculine: the Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology (Oxford: 2008).
⢠M.D. Jordan, The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (Chicago: 1997).
⢠K. Pratt and C.W. Marx (eds), Woman Defamed and Woman Defended (Oxford: 1992).
⢠C. Muessig, G. Ferzoco and B.M. Kienzle (eds), A Companion to Catherine of Siena (Leiden: 2012).
⢠A.B. Mulder-Bakker (ed.), Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe 1200-1550 (Turnhout: 2004).
⢠M. Turner, The Wife of Bath: a Biography (Princeton: 2023).






Comments
Additional bibliography on Episode 292
Works of Ruth Karras would be excellent addition to your bibliography:
Ruth Mazo KARRAS, Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others (New York: Routledge, 2005)
Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)
Ruth Mazo Karras, Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
Ruth Mazo Karras
In reply to Additional bibliography on Episode 292 by Monica Green
Karras
Great, thanks Monica! (Did you listen to the episode yet? At one point I quote from your work, I think about the misogynist book from Chaucer's Wife of Bath.)
In general I think the potential literature on this is vaster than any topic I have covered for the whole middle ages. Thanks for this pointer for me and the listeners, and maybe other people will have further recommendations.
Christine de Pizan
Do you know if you'll do an episode on Christine de Pizan? Her text, The Book of the City of Ladies, is definitely worth our while from a philosophical point of view. (On big topic is Epistemic Injustice in relation to moral / intellectual equality of men and women.)
In reply to Christine de Pizan by Scott M. Williams
Christine
I am a BIG FAN of her and in fact have found a way to cover her twice, sort of. In the upcoming episode on Jean Gerson I cover the debate over the Romance of the Rose, and Christine appears there as a critic of course. Then I have actually already written a further episode on her other works, but you will have to wait for that - it will appear towards the start of the Renaissance series.
Infertility
Thank you for a well-balanced discussion on a subject which is often treated in a lurid manner. I would observe that there is one point in which I would quibble a little - the question of infertile couples, and the licitness of this. It was generally accepted that it was is because they did not take active steps to make themselves infertile.
However, there is an interesting link between infertility and grounds for marrital annulment. Upon entering a marriage, if one party knows that he or she is infertile and does not inform the other party, then the marriage is not considered valid - it is called a defect of person. If, on the other hand, the other party is informed and still goes through with the marriage, then it is considered valid.