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Full articles for this season’s Journal of the History of Ideas available through Project Muse Value, Justice, and Presumption in the Late Scholastic Controversy over Price Regulation Andreas Blank In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, theories of price regulation were… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Josey Tom If the creation of subfields within a discipline indicates its development rather than its demise, then political theory is expanding and glowing in a new light. Founded in the mid-1990s, the sub-field known as Comparative… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer E.L. Meszaros The concept of “canon” is mired in controversy. Should a canon be defined by the divine author of the component texts, by its continued use as a set of objects of study, or as a… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Cynthia Houng I first encountered Abbot Suger: On the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and Its Art Treasures, edited, translated and annotated by Erwin Panofsky (1946, 2nd. revised and expanded edition 1979) when I was working on a… Continue Reading →
Pranav: Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France Ruth Harris’s account of the infamous Dreyfus affair is one of the most harrowing but meaningful books that I have read in a long… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Jeremy Glazier When John Keats first looked into George Chapman’s rendition of Homer in 1816, he stayed up all night reading the two-hundred-year-old translation with his friend Charles Cowden Clarke and left us with a brief but… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Rebecca Levitan When I began studying ancient Greek art as an undergraduate student, I was initially disturbed by the detailed depictions of violence against women. I was also confused that some of the most graphic of these… Continue Reading →
Simon Commentators in contemporary British politics evoke “The Welfare State” so often that you’d think everyone knew what it meant. Today its use often accompanies a story of decline, a lament for the dismantling of the Welfare State, or a… Continue Reading →
By Guest Contributor John D’Amico On April 1, 2019, the government of Japan announced the name of the new era. With the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the accession of Crown Prince Naruhito, the curtain falls on the Heisei period… Continue Reading →
