Episode 7: When In Rome, What Did the Romans Do?
Comitia in Smith, W. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Comitia.html
Sarah Bond. 2016. Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean.
Koenraad Verboven and Christian Laes (eds). 2016. Work, Labour and Professions in the Roman World.
Gregory S. Aldrete. 2004. Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia.
Florence Dupont. 1993. Daily Life in Ancient Rome.
Jorg Rupke. 2018. Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion.
Ray Lawrence. 2009. Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Ancient Rome.
Episode 6: History’s Horrible Women
Incomplete list:
Kord, S. 2009. Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860: Heroines of Horror.
Shu-Fang Dien, D. 2003. Empress Wu Zeitan in Fiction and History: Female Defiance in Confucian China.
Stevenson, M.J & Cuncun,W. 2017. Wanton Women in Late Imperial Chinese Literature: Models, Genres, Subversions and Traditions.
Lengyel, O. 1995. Five Chimneys. (Memoir of time at Auschwitz-Birkenau under Grese)
Laidler, K. 2005. Female Caligula: Ranavalona, the mad Queen of Madagascar.
Episode 5: What’s Your Favourite Historical Fallacy?
William Cronon. 2012. Two Cheers for the Whig Interpretation of History. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2012/two-cheers-for-the-whig-interpretation-of-history.
Francis Fukuyama. 1989. The End of History and the Last Man.
Hayden White. 173. Metahistory.
David Wootton. 2017. A Brief History of Facts. https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/brief-history-facts
Episode 3: Did Anyone Marry for love Before 1987?
Stephanie Coontz. 2005. Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage.
Susan Squire. 2008. I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage.
Nancy F. Cott. 2000. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation.
Don S. Browning. 2006. Sex, Marriage and and Family in World Religions.
Nicola Griffiths. 2006. Hild
Emma Southon. 2018. Marriage, Sex and Death: The Family and the Fall of the Roman West.
Eucheria of Marsailles, Sixth Century Satirical Poem.
Renata Grossi. 2014. Looking For Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage.
Sarab Abu-rabia-Queder. 2007. ‘Coping with 'forbidden love' and loveless marriage: Educated Bedouin women from the Negev’ Ethnography 8.3. 297-323.
Robert Epstein, Mayuri Pandit and Mansi Thakar. 2013. How Love Emerges in Arranged Marriages: Two Cross-cultural Studies. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 44.3. 341-360