Dead Ideas: The History of Extinct Thoughts and Practices
Ein Podcast von B. T. Newberg and history nerd friends
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120 Folgen
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A Haunted Christmas: Ghost Stories from Around the World – World History
Vom: 25.12.2016 -
Hypnotism: Dangers and Advantages in 1888 – PDT3K – French History
Vom: 18.12.2016 -
Hysteria II: The Women of Dr. Charcot’s Hospital – French History
Vom: 11.12.2016 -
Hysteria I: Women and Technology in Belle Époque France – French History
Vom: 4.12.2016 -
Bicycle Face: A Lady Cyclist Medical Scare in the 1890s – Women’s History
Vom: 27.11.2016 -
Miraculous Susan: A Thanksgiving Story from 1893 – PDT3K – American History
Vom: 20.11.2016 -
The Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum) – PDT3K – Women’s History
Vom: 13.11.2016 -
Anti-Witches II: Inquisition Trials and Eastern European Lore – Italian History
Vom: 6.11.2016 -
Anti-Witches I: The Benandanti and the Inquisition in Renaissance Italy – Italian History
Vom: 30.10.2016 -
Halloween in Ireland in 1886 – PDT3K – Irish History
Vom: 23.10.2016 -
Still Arguing Against Miasma in 1901 – PDT3K – American History
Vom: 16.10.2016 -
Miasma II: Court Cases from a Plague Year – Italian History
Vom: 9.10.2016 -
Miasma I: Plague and Mutated Air in Renaissance Italy – Italian History
Vom: 2.10.2016 -
“Savage” Man: Imagining Prehistory in 1873 – PDT3K – Modern History
Vom: 25.9.2016 -
Ginormous Stone Circles II: Making Sense of Stonehenge – British History
Vom: 18.9.2016 -
Ginormous Stone Circles I: Stonehenge Builders of Neolithic Britain – British History
Vom: 11.9.2016 -
Presenting Indian Asceticism to English-speakers in 1924 – PDT3K – Indian History
Vom: 6.9.2016 -
Reanimated Corpses II: Ajivika Story Time – Indian History
Vom: 6.9.2016 -
Reanimated Corpses I: The Ajivika of Ancient India – Indian History
Vom: 6.9.2016 -
Episode 00 WTF Is This Podcast About
Vom: 27.8.2016
We explore ideas and practices once believed to be true but no longer. Each dead idea is explored in all its glorious eccentricity. For example, discover miasma, the theory that plague comes from stinky air; or the medical diagnosis of hysteria, which holds that women's wombs wander around their bodies causing trouble. Join us on a fun romp through the history of ideas that didn’t quite stand the test of time.