Janina Ramirez
Season 6, Episode 6
Cultural and art historian Dr Janina Ramirez joins Robin and Josie to talk about medieval literature this week. Gospels, Julian of Norwich, Beowulf and great books on critical art theory are all up for discussion this episode.
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Reading List
Janina recommends:
The work of Sylvia Plath
The Private Life of the Saints by Janina Ramirez
The Wanderer
The Seafarer
The Lindisfarne Gospels
The Story of Art by E.H. Gomrich
Art History and its Methods by Eric Fernie
The work of Griselda Pollock
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life by Chris Hadfield
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
The work of Val McDermid
Beowulf
Robin recommends:
Julian of Norwich by Dr Janina Ramirez
Keeping an Eye Open by Julian Barnes
The work of John Updike
A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey
On Photography by Susan Sontag
The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
Killing for Company by Brian Master
The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Master
The Vampyre, The Werewolf and Other Gothic Tales of Horror by John Polidori
Josie recommends:
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
The York Plays
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