Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcasts.

I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding

who we are, our place in the universe, and being more deeply in touch with our own humanity.

This is episode 172 and it's all about music therapy, renaissance style.

The show notes will be up at Englandcast.com slash music of the spheres.

Music of the spheres.

So in this episode, we're actually going to bring together a few things, math, music, healing,

and even string theory.

I'm going to talk about some Greek and Roman ideas.

And you might be thinking, Heather, why are you talking about this stuff that happened

1,500 years before the tutors?

This is the Renaissance English History Podcast.

There's already a history of Rome.

Mike Duncan did that.

Well, with your permission, I shall explain.

Remember that the big thing that was happening during the Renaissance was the ancient texts from Greece and Rome being rediscovered, in part through

the sack of Constantinople, also the reconquista of Spain, taking back the areas that had been

Arab and getting a whole lot of new Arab texts and Arab translations, and also increased trade

and contact with the Mediterranean world outside of Europe. So these manuscripts were making their way

back into Europe, especially back into Northern Europe and England where they were being

studied by scholars. So in order to truly understand the Tudor England mindset, especially with

things like medicine or education, we need to hop back in time and begin with the Greeks and Romans. So that's what we're

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