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Some reading gathered for you from around the web by members of the JHIBlog team. Let us know what else has caught your eye this week in the comments! Kristin: Mary Beard, “Sex and Death in the Classical World” (New Statesman) Jonathan… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Meg Foster Heroes are big business in popular culture. From ancient Greek and Roman legends, through to the popular Marvel comic figures of our own time, we have spent centuries on the lookout for exceptional men and… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich It is seldom recalled that there were several “Great Plagues of London.” In scholarship and popular parlance alike, only the devastating epidemic of bubonic plague that struck the city in 1665 and lasted the better… Continue Reading →
Here’s what our editorial team has been reading this week—let us know what you think and what you’ve been reading! Brendan: Tim Rogan, Why Amartya Sen remains the century’s great critic of capitalism (Aeon) Jamie Fisher, The Left-Handed Kid (LRB)… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Pamela C. Nogales C. Prompted by the experience of the second world war, historian Lewis Namier described the undemocratic birth of modern republics in his 1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals (1944) and warned of the unintended consequences… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Nuala F. Caomhánach In his A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings (2017), Nasser Zakariya pries open a Latourian black box to reveal how natural philosophers and later scientists constructed “scientific epics” using four possible “genres of… 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. Cynthia: What is the purpose of… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Joshua S. Daugherty While exploring the pictorial depth displayed in traditional Tibetan scroll paintings known as thangkas, a rather abstract concept continually resurfaced: the notion of space. Early paintings appear shallow or flat, yet, in later centuries,… Continue Reading →
by Editor Sarah Claire Dunstan. One summer’s afternoon in 1923, a French barrister was enjoying a drink in a Parisian café. A man of broad experience and education, the barrister was also a medical doctor who had served in the… 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. Sarah: Heather Agyepong, “The Forgotten… Continue Reading →
