First Impressions #52: Patricia Appelbaum
Art Remillard talks with Patricia Appelbaum about her new book St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint.
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Rose Muravchick
Kristian Petersen talks with Rose Muravchick, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Vassar College, about Textiles, Talismans, and Islam.
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An Immodest Proposal – By Maria Doerfler
Maria Doerfler on Kate Wilkinson’s Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity One of the distinct pleasures of living in New York City is
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Nightmares and Dreams – By Andrew Lanham
Andrew Lanham on Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights There’s a lot of talk about religion in Salman Rushdie’s new
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First Impressions #51: David M. Krueger
What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? Art Remillard talks with David
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First Impressions #50: Samuel Moyn
Special guest host Simon Rabinovitch talks with Samuel Moyn about his new book Christian Human Rights. Moyn is Professor of Law and History
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First Impressions #49: Michael J. O’Loughlin
President Obama may have more Twitter followers, but Pope Francis has the highest retweet rate of any world leader. Dave Krueger talks with
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On Authors, Fathers, and Holy Men – By Ellen Muehlberger
Ellen Muehlberger in the Late Antiquity and the New Humanities Forum ※ Visit the Forum home to see all of the essays. ※ Ambition created the
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Can “Late Antiquity” Be Saved? – By Philip Rousseau
Philip Rousseau in the Late Antiquity and the New Humanities Forum I confess I’ve sometimes wondered whether we shouldn’t abandon the term “late
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Late Antiquity Dissolves – By Anthony Kaldellis
Anthony Kaldellis in the Late Antiquity and the New Humanities Forum ※ Visit the Forum home to see all of the essays. ※ Late antiquity
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