“I’ve Got a Thing,” the first season of The Premodern Podcast, is a series of conversations about the objects, documents, and stories that premodernists just can’t stop thinking about. In this episode, JB Shank discusses lathe-turned ivories as a lens for thinking about early modern European courts and elite engagement with the arts and sciences. 

Dr. JB Shank is a Morse Alumni Distinguished University Teaching Professor of History at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities as well as affiliate faculty in Art History, French and Italian, Religious Studies, and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. He is interviewed by Elijah Wallace, a graduate student in History, at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

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Our theme music is “Dangerous Diamonds” by Rogue Valley written by Chris Koza.

Our intermission music is "Summer is icumen in" by Anya Badaldavood.

This episode was produced by Moinak Choudhury.

Transcript by Karen Soto

The conversations on this podcast represent the framing and views of individual scholars which are not necessarily shared by the Center for Premodern Studies, the University of Minnesota, and their staff and affiliates.