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New Books in Early Modern History

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In Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg presents a lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception o... more

In The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India (Oxford UP, 2025), Elaine Fisher reconstructs Vīraśaiva origins from unstudied multilingual archives, overturning the conventional narrative of a monolingual Kannada bhakti movemen... more

In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men and women took to the streets to protest the planned union with England, fearing the end of Scottish sovereignty. But unbeknownst to the mob, a spy was in their midst—the English writer D... more

In Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Ian Smith urges readers of Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet to develop “racial literacy.” Through both wide social influences and specific professional p... more

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Recent Guests

Elaine Fisher
Associate Professor of Hinduism at Stanford University
Stanford University
Episode: Elaine M. Fisher, "The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Ian Smith
Professor of English at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
Episode: Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Thomas Kuehn
Professor Emeritus at Clemson University
Clemson University
Episode: Thomas Kuehn, "Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Arnoud Visser
Professor of Textual Culture in the Renaissance at Utrecht University and Director of the Huizinga Institute.
Utrecht University
Episode: Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Debra Kaplan
Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany at Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University
Episode: Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, "A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Elisheva Carlebach
Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University
Columbia University
Episode: Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, "A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Saundra Weddle
Professor of Architecture at Drury University
Drury University
Episode: Saundra Weddle, "The Brothel and Beyond: An Urban History of the Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice" (Penn State UP, 2026)
Dr. Olivia Weisser
History professor at UMass Boston specializing in the history of medicine during the early modern period.
UMass Boston
Episode: Olivia Weisser, "The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Professor Toby Green
Historian of West Africa and author of The Heretic of Cacheu
University of Chicago Press
Episode: Toby Green, "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

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Jana Byars
Host known for her in-depth conversations with authors about their recent historical works and research.
Dr. Miranda Melcher
Co-host who emphasizes discussions around scholarly contributions in the fields of history and early modern studies.

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Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Q: How do you conceptualize the reader of Black Shakespeare?
The reader of Black Shakespeare is not limited to individual identities but is informed by the systemic whiteness that affects all readers differently, encouraging a journey towards racial literacy.
Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Q: Talk to us about what systemic whiteness is and how it determines what is acknowledged and what is written about within Shakespeare studies.
Systemic whiteness describes how societies develop and perpetuate a white preference or bias, affecting what we are conditioned to see in literary works.
Marc Mierowsky, "A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence" (Yale UP, 2026)
Q: How did Defoe and his colleagues manage to influence public opinion in Scotland?
Defoe infiltrated various committees and built a network to disseminate propaganda while simultaneously monitoring the Scottish Parliament's activities.
Marc Mierowsky, "A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence" (Yale UP, 2026)
Q: What is the importance of English control over Scotland at this moment in 1703?
It's a source of dynastic and geopolitical insecurity, with concerns over potential Jacobite support for an invasion from France.
Marc Mierowsky, "A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence" (Yale UP, 2026)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?
I am a lecturer in English Lit at Melbourne Uni, and I've always been interested in the connection between Daniel Defoe's writing and his politics.

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