# Christopher De Hamel

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613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel

Books are beloved objects, earning lots of praise as amazing pieces of technology and essential contributors to a civilized society. And yet, we often take these cultural miracles for granted. Who's been making these things for the last several centuries? How have they influenced what we've been re…

641 Blood, Guts, and Books - Inside the Medieval Scriptorium (with Sara Charles) | My Last Book with Elizabeth Coggeshall

Medieval manuscripts are so wondrously beautiful they deserve comparison with the world's finest works of art. But what was behind the production of these books? We might think of rows of monks, patiently toiling away in a hushed chamber - but that would be to ignore the actual conditions of book p…

Inside the Monastery: How Monastic Life Shaped the World”

In this premiere episode of Everyday Catholic History, Fallon Tridento takes you inside one of the most influential institutions in Church history: the monastery. Discover how St. Benedict’s Rule shaped Western civilization, how monks preserved ancient knowledge, and why monastic life still matters…

Episode 337 - The Human Side of Illuminated Manuscripts with Sienna Wells

In this episode Natalie Grueninger interviews manuscript specialist Sienna Wells about illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. They discuss how manuscripts were made, who produced and owned them (including women), how the printing press changed book culture, and what physical traces of us…

You find yourself safe in a mountain monastery as snow falls | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are safe and warm in a Benedictine monastery high in the Alps, more than eight hundred years ago, on a snowy night in deep January. A single candle, walls of thick stone, warm bread and soup from the guest kitchen, a monk finishing one last line in the script…