The most important religious orders of the Catholic church. In the 13th century, the Franciscans "went to people," while the Dominicans filled the positions in the Inquisition. 

Once a powerful and self-centered empire, China is now a Communist state.  In this episode, we talk about how Marxism, a Western ideology, became adopted to the Chinese conditions.

Saint Augustine (354-430) was one of the most influential church fathers of Western Christianity. His concepts of eternity, time, and the human being laid the foundation of the Catholic Church.

First published in 1731, this story written by Abbé Prévost is about moral degradation, fraud, loyalty, passion, and love.  

Michel Foucault, 1926-1984.  Is he a historian, sociologist, philosopher? He is all this and much more, 

Smart in his speeches, clownish in his actions, Don Quixote is a modern character. 

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Does identity matter? Yes, as the case of a 16th-century imposter Martin Guerre proves it. 

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When the peasants speak, the elites are puzzled. In this episode we talk about how Carlo Ginzburg deciphered testimonies of a miller in a small village in Italy. 

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What can we see in the French village of Montaillou? A community, a trial, and heretics, but also a world of Christianity. 

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Knowledge is impossible without memory. In the epoch of Renaissance, memory could be a theater. 

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