by Madeline McMahon In the fifteenth century, a rash of treatises were written by Italian clerics ascribing local icons of the Madonna and Child to St. Luke. Manuscript treatises such as that by the Roman canon Giovanni Baptista not only… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Zachary Levine What should we do when brilliant thinkers push their ideas in strange directions? Should we try to interpret their later work in the context of their earlier work, or vice versa? Should we reject their… 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. Emily: Our very own Erin McGuirl,… Continue Reading →
by Jake Purcell and Emily Rutherford For the second year, your trusty blog editors have combed through the behemoth that is the AHA Annual Meeting’s program in search of panels and events related to intellectual history. JHIBlog readers attending the… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Cynthia Houng “So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have a factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely,… 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. Madeline: Jonathan Rée, on James Harris’s… Continue Reading →
This time last year, we editors were nervously putting the finishing touches on our design for JHIBlog, and writing posts so that there would be something on the website. We launched on January 1, 2015: what a year it’s been!… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Steven McClellan What’s in a name? When I began thinking about writing a dissertation on the history of the Verein für Sozialpolitik (Association for Social Policy), I assumed that the largest problem would be related to 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. Emily: Peter Mandler, The humanities are… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Georgios Giannakopoulos The wave of student protests for racial tolerance and university reform in America recently crashed against the name of Woodrow Wilson. The eagerness to address Wilson’s racism prompted a discussion about his political legacy and… Continue Reading →
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