The new issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (January 2023, 84.1) is now live on Project MUSE.

Over the coming weeks, we will publish short interviews with some of the authors featured in this issue about the historical and historiographical context of their respective essays. Look out for these conversations under the rubric Broadly Speaking.

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Table of Contents
Volume 84, Issue 1

Rome as “Part of the Heavens”: Leon Battista Alberti’s Descriptio urbis Romae (ca. 1450) and Ptolemy’s Almagest
by Maren Elisabeth Schwab

Occupy the Commonplaces: Machiavelli and the Aristotelian Tradition of the Topics
by Abram Kaplan

Knowing Old Age in the Renaissance: Medicine, Poetry, and Spirituality in Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Encyclopedia of Old Age
by Hannah Marcus

The Abbé d’Aubignac’s Homer and the Culture of the Street in Seventeenth-Century Paris
by William Theiss

Max Weber, the Rise of the Polis, and the “Hoplite Revolution” Theory
by Roel Konijnendijk and Fernando Echeverría

How to Do Things with Words: Antifascism as a Differentially Mobilizing Ideology, from the Popular Front to the Black Power Movement
by Giuliana Chamedes
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Historians and Programmers in the 1970s: Formal Languages, the Writing of History, and Ideas of Science
by Pedro Cristovão dos Santos

The Remnants of Giorgio Agamben: The Omnibus Homo Sacer upon Its Completion
by Udi Greenberg

Books Received