Special Episode: Caligula (1979)

https://caligula.org/

Courtney Love as Caligula (2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAf-V0eepAs

Original Caligula Trailer (1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FHN7qMqOvE

Making of Caligula Featurette (contains Guccione chest hair) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlxtytbxX4c

Gore Vidal’s (bad) Screenplay https://pdfcoffee.com/caligula-1975-10-20-scriptpdf-pdf-free.html

Episode 72: What Was So Great About Alexander?

• Ian Worthington. 1999 ’How ‘Great’ was Alexander?’ Ancient History Bulletin 13. https://m-hosseini.ir/esk-solk/articles-1/10.pdf 

• Ian Worthington. 2005. Alexander the Great: A Reader. Routledge. 

• Carol G. Thomas. 2007. Alexander the Great in his World. Blackwell. 

• Ali Ansari. 2012. Alexander the not so Great: History through Persian Eyes. BBC Magazine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18803290 

• Jürgen Osterhammel. 1997.  Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview, trans. from German by Shelley L. Frisch. Markus Wiener and Kingston Ian Randle Publishers

• Margaret Kohn and Kavita Reddy, "Colonialism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2023/entries/colonialism/>.

• Sven Lindqvist. 2018. ‘Exterminate All The Brutes’

• Sven Lindqvist. 2012. Terra Nullius. A Journey Through No One's Land.

• Affiliate links: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/history-is-sexy

Episode 71: Were Children Ever Really Raised by Wolves?

• Serena DuBois. 2007. Feral children in Fiction and Fact. https://erblist.com/erbmania/dubois-feralchildren-all.pdf 

• Archived list of recorded cases of alleged Feral/Wild Children in chronological order http://web.archive.org/web/20020408134427/http://feralchildren.com:80/cases.html 

• Julia V. Douthwaite. 2002. The Wild Child, the Natural Man and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press. 

• Elizabeth Bumiller. April 1985. The Mystery of the Wolf Boy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/04/21/the-mystery-of-the-wolf-boy/4c729f3c-3617-4cae-8008-361f32c074b1/ 

• Michael P. Carroll. 1984. The Folkloric Origins of Modern “Animal Parented Children” Stories. Journal of Folklore Research 21 (1), 63-85

• Euan Ferguson, Oct. 1999. He Was A Wild Child. Really Wild. The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/10/euanferguson.theobserver 

• Rev. J.A.H. Sing. 1926. The Diary of the Wolf-Children of Midnapore. https://www.midnapore.in/wolf-children-of-midnapore/wolf-children-of-midnapore1.html 

• National Geographic. 2007. Is It Real? Feral Children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jix7-Q1748 

• Adriana S, Benzaquen. 2006. Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature. McGill-Queens University Press.

Episode 70: What Are Men’s Clothes So Boring?

• J.C. Flugel. 1930. The Psychology of Clothes. Available at https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34079/page/n121/mode/2up 

• Graeme Richards. 2004. ‘Flügel, John Carl, (1884–1955)’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 

• Joanna Bourke. 1996. ‘Men’s Dress Reform in Interwar Britain’, Journal of Design History 9 (1): 23-33

• John Rickman. 1931. ‘Review of The Psychology of Clothes,’ Philosophy 6(22): 269-70

• Brent Shannon. 2004. ‘Refashioning Men: Fashion, Masculinity and the Cultivation of the Male Consumer in Britain 1860-1914.’ Victorian Studies 46 (4): 597-630

• Sofi Thanhauser. 2022. Worn: A People’s History of Clothes. Pantheon. 

• Tim Edwards. 2016. Men in the Mirror: Men’s Fashion, Masculinity and Consumer Society. 2nd Edn. Bloomsbury. 

• David Kuchta. 2002. The Three Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England 1550-1850.University of California Press. 

• Robyn Gibson, Paul Dufficy, David Smith, Laurence Coy and Joshua Barnes. 2015. ‘A- History of Men’s Suits: An Interlude’ in R. Gibson (ed). The Memory of Clothes. Sense. 81-86.

• Mark Titmarsh. 2019. Rein Man: A Review of Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015. Fashion Theory, 24(3), 435–444. 

• Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear 1715-2015 online exhibition https://artsandculture.google.com/story/reigning-men-fashion-in-menswear-1715-2015-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art/lAUBboqYvPT5JA?hl=en 

• Alexandra Rowland. 2019. ‘Beau Brummell Wasn’t A Hero of Men’s Fashion. He Was A Villain. A Boring Uptight Villain” Esquire. https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a26870204/beau-brummell-style-toxic-masculinity/ 

• Articles of Interest Podcast https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/suits-articles-of-interest-10/transcript/ 

Episode 69: What’s the Deal With Vikings pt 2 - Sagas and Religion

• A big recommendation for the Saga Thing podcast, espcially episode 1C.

  https://sagathingpodcast.wordpress.com/episode-archive/ https://sagathingpodcast.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/episode-1c-what-is-a-saga/ 

• Lisa L. Hannett. 2017. The Politics of Retelling Norse Mythology. The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-politics-of-retelling-norse-mythology/517422/ 

• Carolynne Larrington. 2014. The Poetic Edda 2nd revised edition. OUP. 

• Anders Winroth. The Age of the Vikings

• Margaret Clunies Ross. 2010. The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga. CUP. 

• Heather O’Donoghue. 2004. Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short-Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell.

• Heather O’Donoghue. 2007. From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths. I.B. Taurus. 

Episode 68: What’s The Deal with Vikings?

• Anders Winroth. 2014. The Age of the Vikings. Princeton University Press.

• Julian D. Richards. 2005. Vikings: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.

• Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide and Kevin J. Edwards. 2019. The Vikings. ARC Humanities Press. 

• Cat Jarman. 2021. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads. William Collins. 

• Neil Price. 2020. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings. Basic Books. 

• http://viking.archeurope.info/

Episode 67: Were the Victorians Really Prudes?

• Zisowitz Stearns, C & Stearns, P.N. 1985. Victorian Sexuality: Can Historians Do It Better? Journal of Social History 18 (4): 625-34

• Kincaid, J. 1988. ‘What The VIctorians Knew About Sex’, Browning Institute Studies 16: 91-99

• Cott, N.F. 1978. Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850. Signs 4 (2): 219-36

• Furneaux, H. 2011. Victorian Sexualities. Literature Compass 8/10: 767–775, 

• Sweet, M. 2001. Inventing the Victorians. 

•  Cody, LF. 1996. Review of The Making of Victorian Sexuality by Michael Mason; The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes by Michael Mason.Victorian Studies 39 (3): 466-468.

• Clements, N. 1998. The Myth of Victorian Prudery: Promoting an Image. Articulāte 3: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1043&context=articulate 

• Crozier, I. 2010. William Acton and the history of sexuality: the medical and professional context. Journal of Victorian Culture 5 (1): 1-27.

• Ridell, F. 2014. A Victorian Guide to Sex.

• Ridell, F. 2014. ‘No, no, no! Victorians didn’t invent the vibrator’ The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/10/victorians-invent-vibrator-orgasms-women-doctors-fantasy

Episode 66: Did the Illuminati cause the French Revolution?

References

Augustin Barruel, 1797. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism.

John Robison. 1797. Proofs of a Conspiracy Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies.

Claus Oberhauser. 2020. Simonini’s letter: The 19th century text that influenced antisemitic conspiracy theories about the Illuminati. The Conversation.

Christine Jacobson. 2021. A Look at Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: On Megan Rosenbloom’s “Dark Archives”. LA Review of Books.

Jonathon Israel. 2011. Democratic Enlightenment Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790. OUP.

Megan Rosenbloom. 2020. Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin.

Dieter Groh. 1987. ‘The Temptation of Conspiracy Theory, or: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Part II: Case Studies’ in Carl F. Graumann and Serge Moscovici (eds) Changing Conceptions of Conspiracy, pp. 15-38.

Amos Hofman. 1993. ‘Opinion, Illusion, and the Illusion of Opinion: Barruel's Theory of Conspiracy.’ Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (1) pp.27-60.

Thomas Milan Konda. 2019. Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Took Over America.

Michael Taylor. 2014. ‘British Conservatism, the Illuminati, and the Conspiracy Theory of the French Revolution, 1797–1802’. Eighteenth-Century Studies 47 (3) 239-312.

Josef Wages & Reinhard Markner. (trans 2017). Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati.

Episode 65: What’s The History of Petra?

References

• P. J. Parr (1960) Excavations at Petra, 1958–59, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 92:2, 124-135, 

• al-bashaireh, Khaled & Hodgins, Gregory. (2014). The Chronology of Qsar El-Bint, Petra: Discussion and New Radiocarbon Dates. Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 146. 281-292. 10.1179/1743130114Y.0000000003. 

• Sivan, Hagith. Review of The Petra Papyri IV ed. by Antti Arjava et al., and: The Petra Papyri II eds. by Ludwig Koenen, Jorma Kaimio, Robert W. Daniel. Journal of Late Antiquity, vol. 7 no. 1, 2014, p. 194-196. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/jla.2014.0003. 

• Kouki, P. (2012) The Hinterland of a City: Rural Settlement and Land Use in the Petra Region from the Nabatean-Romans to the Early Islamic Period. Doctoral Thesis. University of Helsinki. https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/33133/thehinter.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 

• Lawler, Andrew (2007) ‘Reconstructing Petra.’ Smithsonian 38 (3). Pp. 42-49

• Bikai, P. M. (2002). The Churches of Byzantine Petra. Near Eastern Archaeology, 65(4), 271–276. https://doi.org/10.2307/3210859

• Wenning, Robert (2013). ‘Nabatean Niches and the Formation of Early Petra’ in Mouton, M. & Schmid, G. (eds) Men on the Rocks: The Formation of Nabatean Petra. Pp 343-350.

• Wenning, Robert (2013). ‘Towards “Early Petra”: An Overview of the Early History of the Nabateans in its Context.  in Mouton, M. & Schmid, G. (eds) Men on the Rocks: The Formation of Nabatean Petra. Pp 7 -23

• Russell, K. W. (1980). The Earthquake of May 19, A. D. 363. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 238, 47–64. https://doi.org/10.2307/1356515

• Manuel Bravo (2021) The Hidden History of Petra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QdKNyrpWA 

• UNESCO. Petra. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/326 

Episode 64: What’s The History of Alchemy?

P.G. Maxwell-Stuart. 2012. The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy.

Sean Martin. 2006. Alchemy and Alchemists.

The Alchemy Website including ‘Nicola Flamel’s’ alchemical heiroglyphs and a great many (nonsensical) alchemical texts https://web.archive.org/web/20190612044100/http://www.levity.com/alchemy/flam_h6.html