What We’re Reading: Week of May 4

Our link roundup has been delayed this weekend because all the JHIBlog editors have been in attendance at Graftoniana, a celebration of JHI editor Anthony Grafton’s birthday and career. We’ve been tweeting at the hashtag #Graftoniana—take a look! Here are… Continue Reading →

May 8, 2015 0

Rescuing the Eighteenth-Century Church of England from the Enormous Condescension of Posterity

by Emily Rutherford I think I’ve found the biggest gap in the secondary literature of all time. As long ago as 1860, the Oxford priest and historian Mark Pattison noticed that historians tended to overlook the Church of England in… Continue Reading →

Days of Letters in the Republic

It’s our pleasure to announce a new feature here at the JHI website. If you look above and to the side, you’ll find a new calendar collecting various happenings in the Republic of Letters. Our hope here matches what we… Continue Reading →

May 4, 2015 0

What We’re 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: In premodern cultural history news:… Continue Reading →

May 1, 2015 0

Dispatch from the Republic of Letters

April and May are busy months, not least for our parent journal. This Friday, the Journal of the History of Ideas will present its 2015 Arthur O. Lovejoy Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Marcia Colish (Yale University) will… Continue Reading →

April 29, 2015 0

Commercializing Opera through Paris’ First Musical Periodical

By guest contributor Saraswathi Shukla The first periodical to successfully distribute musical scores to the French public was founded in 1762 and continued under different names by different editors through the French Revolution (Bruce Gustafson and David Fuller, A Catalogue… Continue Reading →

April 27, 2015 0

What We’re Reading: Week of April 20

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: L.L.B. “Motion Pictures” (The Economist)… Continue Reading →

April 24, 2015 0

A Case of Androgynous Gender-Bending in Early Modern Radical Religion

By guest contributor Timothy Wright From the perspective of contemporary feminism, Christianity has a decidedly mixed record on gender. On the one hand, many modern scholars, such as Mary Wiesner-Hank, cite Christian culture as leading to an “erosion of gender… Continue Reading →

April 22, 2015 0

Breadcrumbs in the Library

by guest contributor Erin McGuirl In the spring of 1989, Mai-mai Sze (1909-1992) and her partner Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) were looking for a home for their library. The collection is strong in East Asian religion, philosophy, and scientific history and… Continue Reading →

April 20, 2015 0

What We’re Reading: Week of April 13

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: Erik Kwakkel, “Book on a… Continue Reading →

April 17, 2015 0

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