Episode 14: Why Did Christianity ‘Win’?
Very very incomplete!
Ramsey MacMullen. 1984. Christianising the Roman Empire (AD 100-400).
Bart Ehrman. 2018. The Triumph of Christianity; How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
Ramey MacMullen and Peter Brown. 2011. The Tenacity of Paganism, NYRB https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/06/09/tenacity-paganism/
Catherine Nixey. 2018. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World.
Episode 13: Did The Nazis Really Go Looking for the Lance of Longinus?
Eric Kurlander, 2017. Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich.
Eric Kurlander, 2017. A Song of Ice and Fire. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/song-ice-and-fire
Peter Levanda, 2002. Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult.
Nicolas Goodridge-Clarke, 1985. The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology.
Episode 10: How Has Music Changed over History? ft. Dr Anna Scott.
Paleolithic flute made from a vulture bone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCBBDV2Tzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUFRmQ4eso
Hurrian hymn #6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhB9gRnIHE
Ancient Greek music - the work of Armand D’Angour on reconstructing hymns and sections of dramatic chorus https://youtu.be/4hOK7bU0S1Y
Earliest surviving complete piece of composition is the Seikilos epitaph c.100ad from Turkey.
Indian Hindu vedic arts - the Samaveda - 1000BC - sections of the Rigveda set to a melody and chanted http://www.vedchant.com/Yajur.mp3
Chinese Xun - like egg flutes made of clay. Oldest are about 5000bc . https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ARecording_of_Xun.ogg
Solitary Orchid in the Stone Tablet Mode - written for the guqin in 7thC AD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPqX2rgCAok
Synaulia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLXyBzMci0
Musica Romana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4KqvAhqFA
Music of the Middle Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHzH5iDcGQ
Le Jeu De Robin Et Marion by Adam de le Halle, troubadour in the 13thC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIx07t14jw
Hildegard of Bingen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei88J4lERbk
Hermann of Reichenau 11thC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petits_Chanteurs_de_Passy_-_Salve_Regina_de_Hermann_Contract.ogg
John Dowland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrzAo9Wl4
"A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp86xtRUokA
Baroque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLj_gMBqHX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dYNttdgl0
Classical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3Vmo_EM8Y
Episode 8: Did Women Really Dress As Men to Join the Army?
Catherine Baker: https://twitter.com/richmondbridge/status/983619848973553664?s=09
Mark Stoyle. 2018.‘Give mee a Souldier's Coat’: Female Cross‐Dressing during the English Civil War. History 103 (354) pp. 5-26. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-229X.12542
Catherine Baker. 2018. Montrous Regiment. History Today. https://www.historytoday.com/catherine-baker/monstrous-regiment
Cheryl Morgan. 2018. How Not To Erase Trans History. http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/erase-trans-history/
Julie Wheelwright. 1990. Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
DeAnne Blanton, Lauren Cook Wike. 2002. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
Fraser Easton. 2003, Gender's Two Bodies: Women Warriors, Female Husbands and Plebeian Life. Past and Present 108, pp. 131-174. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3600742
Jing Yin, 2011. Popular Culture and Public Imaginary: Disney vs. Chinese Stories of Mulan. Javnost - The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture 18 (10), pp. 53-74.
Peter Boag. 2011.Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past.
Lila Guadêncio, nd. The Pillars of Mimicry: Performativity and 'Realness' in Hua Mulan. http://www.academia.edu/24696528/The_Pillars_of_Mimicry_Performativity_and_Realness_in_Hua_Mulan
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