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From and for the Republic of Letters

The JHI Blog welcomes pitches for guest posts from across the world and across the republic of letters. Our readers will also know that we’ve happily branched out into reviews of conferences, public lectures, and exhibitions. We would like to… Continue Reading →

August Boeckh in the 21st Century: Methodological Questions for Globalized Classics

by guest contributor Colin Guthrie King August Boeckh (1785–1867) is in a certain sense the great unknown classicist of the nineteenth century. Boeckh was professor eloquentiae et poeseos (“of rhetoric and composition”) at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin (today’s Humboldt-Universität) from… 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 →

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 →

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