#1314 Roderick Beaton - Europe: A New History

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopez, and today I'm joined by Dr. Roderick Bitten. He's a Meritus Core Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine history, language and literature at King's College, London. And today we're going to talk about his book Юп. A new history. So, Doctor Bitten, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to have you one. Well, thank you for having me. I'm looking forward to talking to you. So just before we get into

Uh talking about Uh how А європейці девелоп а крос і стрі. Uh I would like to start with a sort of a methodological question here. So Tell us about the branch of history known as history of ideas that

in the book you mention you draw from. Well I do because the book is, you know, it's as well as being a history of Europe is in terms of things that have happened and people have made things happen, it's also uh I also tried to write the story of the idea of Europe. And As I expl as I mentioned, as you say, I um you know I I the context for doing that is The broad area of academic study called the history of ideas and

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