By guest contributor Erin Duncan-O’Neill Beginning in a small hallway on the second floor of New York’s Grolier Club, the exhibition Vive les Satiristes! Caricature during the Reign of Louis Philippe, 1830-1848 displayed prints and bound illustrations of French caricature… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Mark Marion Gondelman In 1713, a rebellious Kabbalist named Nechemiah Chayun published a book called ‘Oz le-Elohim. The tract immediately incited a scandal: In it, Chayun argued, in good Rabbinic Hebrew and on the basis of established… Continue Reading →
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: Caroline Alexander, “The Dread… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Adam Fales Who, in short, authored Congreve? Whose concept of reader do these forms of the text imply: the author’s, the actor’s, the printer’s, or the publisher’s? And what of the reader? D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and… Continue Reading →
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. Derek: David Greenberg, “America’s 100 other… Continue Reading →
by Derek O’Leary Hugo Swinton Legare engraved by T. Doney, c.1830-1850. From the Brussels diary of Hugh Swinton Legare (1797-1843), while US chargé d’affaires there: 24th May [1832]: Nothing remarkable; stretched off on a sofa today in the salle-à-manger, while my… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Megan Baumhammer The fieldwork expeditions of William Beebe (1872- 1962) and the Department of Tropical Research aimed to “bring the laboratory to the jungle.” Beebe, an ornithologist affiliated with the New York Zoological Society (now known as… Continue Reading →
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. Emily: CFP! Past and Present:… Continue Reading →
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. Emily Steven Nadler, Who was the… Continue Reading →
The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 78 number 2, is now available in print, and is already available online at Project Muse. The table of contents is as follows: Jacomien Prins, Girolamo Cardano and Julius Caesar Scaliger… Continue Reading →
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