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Renaissance warfare history book – “Renaissance Mass Murder” (Oxford University Press, 2019) – Stephen Bowd interview

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Dr. Stephen Bowd studied and Medieval and Renaissance studies now teaches at the University of Edinburgh.  We talked about his latest book on military mass murders committed during the Italian Wars of the early 16th century.

0:46 – Stephen talks about how he got into writing on massacres during the italian Wars.

2:25 – The book covers the years 1494 to about 1530.

3:18 – The book is broken into sections on mass murder events, what the soldiers thought of murders, what the civilian thought, theories behind mass murder in war, and comparisons to other mass murders.

6:37 – Stephen talks about massacres associated with military activity and those that were between military activities.

9:05 – Stephen talks about the attitudes of soldiers towards civilians.

11:15 – Stephen talks about the nationalities of the various armies involved in these massacres.

13:45 – Stephen talks about the plunder taken in towns during these wars.

15:00 – Stephen talks about the sack of Rome.

16:19 – Stephen talks about the levels of lawlessness in these massacres and seiges.  But there also sometimes plans drawn up for these massacres.

19:30 – Some soldiers feared that peace talks would lead to less plunder for them after the siege or battle ends.

21:47 – Stephen talks about what weapons were used for these massacres.

23:38 – Stephen talks about the numbers of people massacred.

26:30 – Stephen talks about women who trained in arms to defend their towns.

41:00 – Stephen talks about Machiavelli’s views on the murder of civilians.

45:52 – Stephen talks about Protestant-Catholic divisions and these massacres.

48:27 – Stephen discusses how these massacres shape art and the Renaissance.

55:55 – Stephen’s work can be found by googling “Shadow Agents of War.”

 Links of interest

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/renaissance-mass-murder-9780198832614?cc=us&lang=en&
https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles/profile_tab1_academic.php?uun=sbowd

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Guests: Stephen Bowd

Host: Cris Alvarez

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Modern warfare history book – “Pretty Liar” (Syracuse University Press, 2018) – Natalie Khazaal interview

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Natalie Khazaal is assistant professor of international studies and Arab culture at Texas A&M University. She studies the role of the media in representations of minorities, as well as the role of language and literature in generating media representations. We spoke about her latest book on television during the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1991.

0:36 – Natalie explains how she got into studying and writing on television during the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1991

5:50 – Natalie talks about the Lebanese Civil War and what it was about.

8:00 – Natalie talks about the parts of Lebanon impacted by the civil war.

10:55 – Lebanese people refer to the civil war as “The War of Others.”

11:25 – Natalie talks about the specifics of the book.  It looks at news television and television entertainment.

15:03 – Natalie talks about who controlled Lebanese television during the civil war.  News became a hotly debated issue.

19:00 – Natalie talks about coverage of the World Cup during the war.

21:00 – Natalie talks about how language and gender was affected by the civil war.

31:48 – Natalie touches a little on radio.

34:38 – Natalie talks about cable television and how the book is about terrestial television.

37:00 – Television didn’t do enough to warn Lebanese people about war events so they developed their own code words to exchange information.

42:30 – Natalie discusses about how Lebanese people during the civil war brought up the same questions then that citizen journalists ask now.

44:04 – Natalie talks about the resources she used for her study.

51:20 – Natalie talks about news bulletin records and how difficult they are to access.

59:46 – Natalie  has a twitter account @natalie_khazaal and she’s on Facebook at Natalie Lemonn.

Links of interest

http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2018/pretty-liar.html

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Guests: Natalie Khazaal

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