https://orabeam.com/candle-history/ Unhurried three-hour monographs on medieval villages, monastic scriptoriums, pre-industrial crafts, and everyday life. en-us © 2026 Orabeam Publishing House Orabeam Publishing House — Slow Candle History Unhurried three-hour monographs on medieval villages, monastic scriptoriums, pre-industrial crafts, and everyday life. episodic Orabeam Publishing House hello@orabeam.com false https://orabeam.com/assets/podcast/candle-history-1400.jpg https://orabeam.com/candle-history/ no https://orabeam.com/monographs/the-entire-history-of-candlelight-how-we-lit-the-long-night/ https://orabeam.com/monographs/the-entire-history-of-candlelight-how-we-lit-the-long-night/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Our signature episode: rushlights, tallow, beeswax and oil lamps, and what evenings felt like before electric light, drawing on A. Roger Ekirch's 'At Day's Close' and household accounts. Read the full primary-source monograph at https://orabeam.com/monographs/the-entire-history-of-candlelight-how-we-lit-the-long-night/ Slow Candle History Our signature episode: rushlights, tallow, beeswax and oil lamps, and what evenings felt like before electric light, drawing on A. Roger Ekirch's 'At Day's Close' and household accounts. Our signature episode: rushlights, tallow, beeswax and oil lamps, and what evenings felt like before electric light, drawing on A. Roger Ekirch's 'At Day's Close' and household accounts. 00:01:26 false full https://orabeam.com/monographs/a-year-on-a-medieval-farm-month-by-month/ https://orabeam.com/monographs/a-year-on-a-medieval-farm-month-by-month/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A calm walk through the agricultural calendar using the 'Labours of the Months', the Luttrell Psalter and Walter of Henley's 'Husbandry', with a dry aside about the weather now and then. Read the full primary-source monograph at https://orabeam.com/monographs/a-year-on-a-medieval-farm-month-by-month/ Slow Candle History A calm walk through the agricultural calendar using the 'Labours of the Months', the Luttrell Psalter and Walter of Henley's 'Husbandry', with a dry aside about the weather now and then. A calm walk through the agricultural calendar using the 'Labours of the Months', the Luttrell Psalter and Walter of Henley's 'Husbandry', with a dry aside about the weather now and then. 00:01:26 false full https://orabeam.com/monographs/the-entire-history-of-bread-from-the-first-ovens-to-the-village-bake/ https://orabeam.com/monographs/the-entire-history-of-bread-from-the-first-ovens-to-the-village-bake/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 +0000 A slow history of humanity's most ordinary food, using archaeobotany such as the Shubayqa 1 flatbread finds, Pliny the Elder and medieval assizes of bread. Read the full primary-source monograph at https://orabeam.com/monographs/the-entire-history-of-bread-from-the-first-ovens-to-the-village-bake/ Slow Candle History A slow history of humanity's most ordinary food, using archaeobotany such as the Shubayqa 1 flatbread finds, Pliny the Elder and medieval assizes of bread. A slow history of humanity's most ordinary food, using archaeobotany such as the Shubayqa 1 flatbread finds, Pliny the Elder and medieval assizes of bread. 00:01:26 false full https://orabeam.com/monographs/daily-life-in-edo-japan-hour-by-hour/ https://orabeam.com/monographs/daily-life-in-edo-japan-hour-by-hour/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000 One ordinary day in old Tokyo, from bathhouse to lantern-lit street, built on Susan Hanley's 'Everyday Things in Premodern Japan' and Edo-period guidebooks. Read the full primary-source monograph at https://orabeam.com/monographs/daily-life-in-edo-japan-hour-by-hour/ Slow Candle History One ordinary day in old Tokyo, from bathhouse to lantern-lit street, built on Susan Hanley's 'Everyday Things in Premodern Japan' and Edo-period guidebooks. One ordinary day in old Tokyo, from bathhouse to lantern-lit street, built on Susan Hanley's 'Everyday Things in Premodern Japan' and Edo-period guidebooks. 00:01:26 false full