Turning Modern

Chad D.
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From the year 1500 to the fall of Napoleon, each episode of "Turning Modern" highlights a different event, person, or creative work in the early modern West. Join me as I look at the people, forces, and art that helped shape the world we live in, for better and for worse.

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  1. The First Printed Book Banned By The Church

    2月28日

    The First Printed Book Banned By The Church

    A genius prodigy sets out to change the world by resolving all philosophical and religious disputes with one book, his own 900 Theses, and a debate in Rome between Europe's brightest intellectual lights. And he will leave his mark on history, just not in the way he wants... Sources Cited: Hanegraaf, Wouter J. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Bradatan, Costica. Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of Philosophers (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance (Chatto &Windus, 1965). Mirandola, Pico della. Syncretism in the West: Pico’s 900 Theses (1486), ed. andtrans. S.A. Farmer, 2nd edition (Arizona State University, 2003). ____________. “Oration on the Dignity of Man”, trans. Cosma Rohilla Shaizi. Cosma’s Home Page, 21 November 1994. Last accessed 2/23/2025: https://bactra.org/Mirandola/.  Slattery, Luke. “A Renaissance Murder Mystery.” The New Yorker (20 July 2015).Last accessed 2/25/2025: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-renaissance-murder-mystery. Stethern, Paul. Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City (Pegasus Books, 2015). The Turning Modern theme is Johann Bach, "No. 14 Chorus" Die Auferweckung des Lazarus by Esther Himmler, Ingeborg Russ, Urs Dettwiler, Bruce Aber, and the Trossingen Soloists' Association and Chorus Community (Original composition: 1773; Recording: 1978-1979).

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  2. 2月21日

    The Age of Anxiety: Prelude

    As the sixteenth century begins following plague, turmoil, traumatic defeats, and the discovery of new continents, people from all faiths feel that the end of history and salvation are at hand while others look to the past to find hope for the future. Reference: Cornell H. Fleischer, "A Mediterranean Apocalypse: Prophecies of Empire in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries" Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 61 (2018): 18-90. Music: Bach, Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (based on a hymn by Martin Luther) (Performer unknown)

    6 分鐘

  3. 2月21日

    Turning Modern: Introduction

    What is Turning Modern, and why the "early modern West"?

    8 分鐘
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From the year 1500 to the fall of Napoleon, each episode of "Turning Modern" highlights a different event, person, or creative work in the early modern West. Join me as I look at the people, forces, and art that helped shape the world we live in, for better and for worse.

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  • 創作者
    Chad D.
  • 活躍年代
    2026年
  • 集數
    3
  • 年齡分級
    兒少適宜
  • 版權
    © Chad D.
  • 節目網站
    Turning Modern