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Two Editors and their Theophrastus

by guest contributor Richard Calis In an earlier post I reported on the philological endeavors of Pieter Fontein and his strong interest in the marginalia of Isaac Casaubon. As I would like to underline here, this was much more than… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of Oct. 5th

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. John: Andrés G. Freijomil, « Michel… Continue Reading →

Legacies of British Slave Ownership: Thoughts on British Imperial History and Public Memory

by Emily Rutherford Last week, I was meant to be teaching the women’s suffrage movement to my modern British history discussion section, but my students only wanted to talk about one thing: Prime Minister David Cameron visited Jamaica last week,… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of Sept. 28

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. John: James M. Banner, Jr. “Thinking… Continue Reading →

Synthesis, Narrative, and Conversation: On Thomas Bender

by guest contributor Daniel London

What We’re Reading: Week of Sept. 21

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. Madeline: Patrick Lacroix, “Crossing Borders: Reconstructing… Continue Reading →

Making a Case for Bishops’ Authority in the Second and Seventeenth Centuries

By Madeline McMahon In 1644, James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, published the letters of two early Christian martyrs: Polycarp and Ignatius (Polycarpi et Ignatii Epistolae (Oxford: Lichfield, 1644)). Both were bishops in the eastern Roman Empire and both met their… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of Sept. 14th

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. John: Doctor Cleveland, “Loving Shakespeare’s Language,… Continue Reading →

Lincoln Kirstein, Dance, and Intellectual History

by guest contributor Laura Quinton Last week, New York University’s Center for Ballet and the Arts hosted a panel, “Dance and the Intellectual: Lincoln Kirstein’s Legacy.” The event featured moderator Leon Wieseltier, former literary editor of the New Republic, along… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Week of September 7

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. John: Eric Aeschlmann, « Hannah Arendt… Continue Reading →

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