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Turning Modern

Chad D.

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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19 episodes

  1. Halloween Special #1: The Serial Killer Countess 22:27
  2. The Rise and Fall of the Kingdom of God in Münster 35:53
  3. The Secret Love of Copernicus 18:06
  4. The Abducted Children Sent To An Island 15:59
  5. How an Independence War Inspired a Ski Competition 19:54
  6. The Forgotten Woman Who Helped Shape The Protestant Reformation 14:08
  7. The Peasant Revolt That Helped Change Eastern Europe 27:25
  8. The Queen Who Became a Professional Writer 27:08
  9. The Actual First Bible Translated Into English (And The Man Who Died For It) 26:37
  10. The Drop-Out Who Destroyed a Society 21:15
  11. 5/30 Update 2:18
  12. Martin Luther on Trial 27:12
  13. The "Journalist" Who Covered the Ottoman Invasion of Egypt 30:14
  14. The Erotic Publication That Scandalized Renaissance Europe 19:03
  15. The German Peasant Who (Almost) Started a Revolution 5:34
  16. The African King Who Had a Portuguese Name 32:37
  17. The First Printed Book Banned By The Church 21:34
  18. The Age of Anxiety: Prelude 5:34
  19. Turning Modern: Introduction 8:27