How Many Things Are There? Ways of Counting in Medieval Metaphysics

by guest contributor Aline Medeiros Ramos When I see two brown dogs, how many things are really there? Are there two particular dogs alongside each other, or is there only one kind of thing (dog, or “dogness”)? Or are there… Continue Reading →

2015/02/27 0

History contra global

by John Raimo It is a truth universally acknowledged, that everyone feels strongly about global history. It may even prove more contentious so far as intellectual history goes. Yet what goes comparatively little discussed would be how today’s global history… Continue Reading →

2015/02/25 0

Marcel Schwob and Moody History

by guest contributor Dylan Kenny Everyone in Paris knew Marcel Schwob (1867-1905). Journalist, critic, slang philologist, decadent symbolist fabulist, whose French Hamlet Sarah Bernhardt acted in 1899, whose 1904 lectures on François Villon were attended by Max Jacob and his… Continue Reading →

2015/02/23 0

What We’re Reading: Week of Feb. 16

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week (with occasional significant overlap …). If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments! Madeline: Tom… Continue Reading →

2015/02/21 0

Why Are All the Costume Dramas Edwardian?, or, History and Popular Memory

by Emily Rutherford When the World War I-era miniseries Parade’s End, based on the novels of Ford Madox Ford, was being broadcast on the BBC, a British friend asked me, “Why are all the costume dramas Edwardian?” It’s true: the… Continue Reading →

2015/02/20 0

Histories of Tithes: Religious Controversy and Changing Methodologies

by Madeline McMahon In December 1618, the talented scholar John Selden was called before King James to answer for the publication of his Historie of tithes (London: William Stansby, 1618). Selden’s work on tithes (literally, the “tenth” of all goods… Continue Reading →

2015/02/18 0

Mobility in Context and the Global Intellectual

by Maryam Patton If ideas are the most migratory things in the world, as Arthur O. Lovejoy suggested in 1940, then why have intellectual historians proven less eager to adopt the precepts of global history in comparison to their colleagues… Continue Reading →

2015/02/16 0

What We’re Reading: Week of Feb. 9

Madeline: Francine Prose, “The Case for Hollywood History” (NYRB) Darryl Pinckney, “Some Different Ways of Looking at Selma” (NYRB) Juan-Jacques Aupiais, An Interview with P. Adams Sitney (Nassau Literary Review) Jonathan Wilson, Bernard Cooper on art and life (LARB) Rhiannon… Continue Reading →

2015/02/14 0

The Sounds of History

by John Raimo So far as writing history goes, the British historian G.M. Young wrote, “The secret is to treat every document as the record of a conversation, and go on reading till you hear the people speaking.” This characterization… Continue Reading →

2015/02/13 0

Annotations and Generations (II)

by guest contributor Frederic Clark Adam Winthrop died in 1623—seven years before his son John would board the Arbella and sail to Massachusetts. John Winthrop’s son, John Jr., was studying abroad at Trinity College Dublin at the time. His father… Continue Reading →

2015/02/11 0

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