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Gendered Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony and the Power of Music in Niẓāmī’s Haft Paykar

by Jacomien Prins Last year, I presented a paper on music, harmony and gender in Niẓāmī’s Haft Paykar at the conference ‘Femininity and Masculinity in Persian Classical Romances’ (Utrecht University, 2024). While I have been fascinated by the way in… Continue Reading →

Announcing the winner of the Selma V. Forkosch Prize for 2024: Germaine A. Hoston

The Journal of the History of Ideas awards the Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in the journal each year. The winner of the JHI’s Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in 2024 is… Continue Reading →

The Archive of Empire: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Asheesh Kapur Siddique

by Disha Karnad Jani

The Cult of Gorky in Interwar Greece

by Nikolaos Paraschis

Call for Submissions, JHI Blog Forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

Inspired by a panel at the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference, this JHI Blog Forum will collect and publish short reflections on the relationship between new work in intellectual history and political economy, broadly conceived, concerning Europe and beyond…. Continue Reading →

Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University: C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in Postwar America

by Sam Chian

Alciati’s Book of Emblems and the Popular Recovery of Antiquity

by Truman Cunningham

Summer of Fire and Blood: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Lyndal Roper

by Disha Karnad Jani

Across Natural Orders: The Enlightenment Discovery of Insect Pollination

by Christoffer Basse Eriksen

Other Worlds, Other Persons? Theological Encounters with Extraterrestrials in Early Modern Fiction

by Parker Cotton

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