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Western European Studies
Interviews with scholars of Western Europe about their new books.
May 4, 2026
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands
Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, J…
May 4, 2026
Intimacy and Social (Dis)Order in Dutch Colonial Expansion
Explosive sexual scandals, bitter domestic conflicts, and dramatic changes in fortune. Sex, marriage, and family life were matters of enormous consequ…
May 2, 2026
The Ambassador and the Courtesan
Paola de Santo joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Renaissance Italy (U Delaware Press,…
May 2, 2026
Atlas's Bones
A major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Virgil. Chaucer.…
May 1, 2026
1453
A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and c…
April 27, 2026
The British General Election of 2024
Why and how did Labour win the 2024 election? In The British General Election of 2024 Robert Ford, a Professor of Politics at the University of Manche…
April 26, 2026
The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy
Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the United States and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the…
April 25, 2026
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral…
April 24, 2026
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance
Today, I interview Vin Nardizzi, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, about his new monograph Marvellous Vegetables in the Engl…
April 24, 2026
The People, the Workers, and the Citizens
Today we are joined by Mattie Fitch, Associate Professor at Marymount University and author of The People, The Workers and the Citizens: Antifascist C…
April 22, 2026
Where Saints Show Respect
Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power is an anthropological exploration of how authority is produced not only through viol…
April 22, 2026
From Occupation to Integration
After the collapse of the National Socialist regime in May 1945, France became one of four principal occupying powers in a defeated Germany. Within th…
April 17, 2026
Huguenot Networks
Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge UP, 2025), Penny Robert's latest book, takes us into the world of secret i…
April 16, 2026
Leibniz in His World
Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a ratio…
April 14, 2026
Revolutions
Revolutions: A New History (Verso Books, 2025) is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms…
April 13, 2026
Synagogues of Greece
Across Greece, once-thriving Jewish communities stood for more than two thousand years. From the Romaniote Jews of Ioannina to the great Sephardic cen…
April 11, 2026
Master of Rome
By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advoca…
April 9, 2026
The Making of "Jew Clubs"
Today we are joined by Pavel Brunssen, a Research Associate and Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Research Center on Antigypsyism at Heidelberg Univers…
April 8, 2026
The Burgeoning European Print Trade
Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof join Jana Byars to talk about their new book, The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints Via the Pl…
April 7, 2026
Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite
In Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War (Cambridge UP, 2026) Dr. Andrew Park tells the story of…