90 Second Narratives

“This story is about one of the earliest models to appear on the printed page: the sixteenth-century German peasant…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.

For further reading:
Sky Michael Johnston. “Printing the Weather: Knowledge, Nature, and Popular Culture in Two Sixteenth-Century German Weather Books.” Renaissance Quarterly 73 no. 2 (2020): 391-440

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Nicholas Neesbett was an experienced healer in fifteenth-century England…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Melissa Reynolds.

For further reading:
Melissa Reynolds. “The Sururgia of Nicholas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England.” Social History of Medicine 34 (2021)

How To: Reading Medicine and Science in England, 1400–1600 by Melissa Reynolds (forthcoming)

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Almost every book from the fourteenth century onwards was made of paper, and every letter sent was a paper sheet folded. Early modern Europe was a paper age…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Daniel Bellingradt.

For further reading:
The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Materials, Networks edited by Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds (Brill, 2021)

Vernetzte Papiermärkte: Einblicke in den Amsterdamer Handel mit Papier im 18. Jahrhundert by Daniel Bellingradt (Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2020)

Vervlechting van de papiermarkt: De Amsterdamse papierhandel in de achttiende eeuw by Daniel Bellingradt (Uitgeverij Verloren, 2021) 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

This special episode combines all the stories from Season 5…

“Billy Graham: Emblem of American Evangelicalism” – Dr. Aaron Griffith, Assistant Professor of History at Sattler College

“Katharina von Bora: Paragon of the Protestant Household” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz

“Francis of Assisi: Model of Medieval Sainthood” – Dr. Donna Trembinski, Associate Professor of History at St. Francis Xavier University

“Adolphe Crémieux: Pioneering Justice Minister of France” – Dr. Noëmie Duhaut, Wiss. Mitarbeiterin, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz

“Dadabhai Naoroji: Leader of Indian Nationalism” – Dr. Dinyar Patel, Assistant Professor of History at the S P Jain Institute of Management and Research

“Bob Marley: Icon of Dissent and Love” –  Dr. Jeremy Prestholdt, Professor, Department of History at the University of California San Diego

“Ida Pfeiffer: Pioneer of Leisure Travel” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston

“Audre Lorde: Embodiment of Black Internationalism” – Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“In 1984, Audre Lorde travelled to Berlin…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil.

An extended version of this story is available on the podcast website.

For further reading:
Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement by Tiffany N. Florvil (University of Illinois Press, 2020)

“Adolphe Crémieux was the first Jewish minister in France and, in fact, in Europe…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Noëmie Duhaut.

For further reading:

Noëmie Duhaut, “L’Alliance israélite universelle, les Juifs roumains et l’idée d’Europe,” Archives Juives 53 (2020): 72-89

Adolphe Crémieux: A Biography by S. Posener (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1940)

“Katharina von Bora was an iconic representative of the new household piety championed by her husband, Martin Luther…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.

For further reading:
Martin Treu, "Katharina von Bora, the Woman at Luther's Side," Lutheran Quarterly 13 (1999): 156–178.

Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germanyby Amy Leonard (University of Chicago Press, 2005)

The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg by Lyndal Roper (Oxford University Press, 1991) 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“In 1999, the BBC designated Bob Marley’s anthem, ‘One Love,’ the song of millennium…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Jeremy Prestholdt.

For further reading:
Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden by Jeremy Prestholdt (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Ida Pfeiffer was an icon of leisure travel, before leisure travel was even a thing…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.

For further reading:

A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Ida Pfeiffer.

Wanderlust: The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist by John van Wyhe (NUS Press, 2019).

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Francis of Assisi is one of the most famous medieval saints. An icon, in his own time and today…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Donna Trembinski.

For further reading:
Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi by Donna Trembinski (University of Toronto Press, 2020) 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/