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What We’re Reading: Week of October 2nd

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Spencer Bruce Gordon (ed.), “The Protestant… Continue Reading →

2017/10/06 0

The First of Nisan, The Forgotten Jewish New Year, Part II

By guest contributor Joel S. Davidi In my last post on the history of the first of Nisan as a Jewish new year I discussed the history of this now mostly forgotten holiday into the tenth century. Until this point, this… Continue Reading →

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Violence, Intimate and Public, in Bel-Ami’s Republic

By Contributing Editor Eric Brandom Mme Forestier, who was playing with a knife, added: –Yes…yes…it is good to be loved… And she seemed to press her dream further, to think of things she dared not say. These are lines from a… Continue Reading →

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What We’re Reading: Week of 25th September

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Melodrama in Disguise: The Case of the Victorian Novel

By guest contributor Jacob Romanow When people call a book “melodramatic,” they usually mean it as an insult. Melodrama is histrionic, implausible, and (therefore) artistically subpar—a reviewer might use the term to suggest that serious readers look elsewhere. Victorian novels,… Continue Reading →

2017/09/27 0

You Should Learn Descriptive Bibliography

By editor Erin McGuirl This summer, I spent a week at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia doing something new and I loved it. I was a newcomer to a group of Lab Instructors guiding students through a… Continue Reading →

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What We’re Reading: Week of 18th September

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Eric Emile Chabal, “Les anglo-saxons” (Aeon)…. Continue Reading →

2017/09/22 0

What was life like as a female singer 3400 years ago?

By guest contributor Lynn-Salammbô Zimmermann In the mid-14th century BCE, a group of young female singers contracted an unknown disease. A corpus of letters from Nippur, a religious and administrative center in the Middle Babylonian kingdom (modern-day Iraq), tells us about… Continue Reading →

2017/09/20 0

“Doctrine according to need”: John Henry Newman and the History of Ideas

By guest contributor Burkhard Conrad O.P.L. Any history of ideas and concepts hinges on the observation that ideas and concepts change over time. This notion seems to be so self-evident that the question of why they change is rarely addressed…. Continue Reading →

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What We’re Reading: Week of 11th September

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Disha Pankaj Mishra, “What Is… Continue Reading →

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