What We’re Reading: Week of November 2nd

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. John: Jean Birnbaum, « Mort de… Continue Reading →

November 6, 2015 0

Education in Excess: The Folger Institute’s “Theatres of Learning”

by guest contributor Timothy Lundy When Erasmus began to compose his authoritative textbook on style, De copia, during the last decade of the fifteenth century, it’s highly unlikely that he envisioned a gathering of twenty-first century scholars in a reconstructed… Continue Reading →

Introducing Our New Contributing Editors

It is with great excitement that we announce a new direction for JHIBlog—or, that is, several new directions. Beginning this month, several contributing editors have agreed to join us and broaden the website’s historical scope and depth. This will entail… Continue Reading →

November 2, 2015 1

The Jewish Musical Pioneers: Salamone de Rossi and Rabbi Leon of Modena

by guest contributor Elad Uzan One of the ways in which the history of the Jewish people reveals itself is through music. The Torah, Writings [Ketuvim], and the Psalms contain over eight hundred references to the spiritual and religious usages… Continue Reading →

November 2, 2015 0

What We’re Reading: Week of Oct. 26

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: Celebrated historian and wonderful person… Continue Reading →

October 30, 2015 0

Only Buddhists and Anglicans: Moderation and the Church of England

by guest contributor Peter Walker Is it possible to be a fanatical Anglican? The idea sounds like a contradiction in terms. One readily thinks of George Eliot’s Casaubon, the stuffy and pedantic academic, or more sympathetically, Dawn French’s jolly and… Continue Reading →

October 28, 2015 11

Goodnight Moon: Kepler’s ‘Somnium’

by guest contributor Nicholas Bellinson One Bohemian night in 1608, the Imperial Mathematician gazed up at the moon and the stars. In the seven years since he had received that title, Johannes Kepler had discovered many things about these celestial… Continue Reading →

October 26, 2015 1

What We’re Reading: Week of Oct. 19

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: Shameless self-promotion: I’m participating in… Continue Reading →

October 23, 2015 2

Moses Gaster: Folklore, ‘Medieval’ Judaism and Turn-of-the-Century Jewish Historiography

by guest contributor Yitzchak Schwartz Historians have a very specific idea of how Jewish intellectuals understood their history at the turn of the twentieth century. Most see Jewish historiography of the period as centered around the German Wissenschaft des Judentums… Continue Reading →

October 19, 2015 7

What We’re Reading: Week of Oct. 12

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: Mary Beard, Why ancient Rome… Continue Reading →

October 16, 2015 0

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