history

What can historical fiction do that history can’t? from magistra 6 days old

[ ... ] ‘straight’ history. The rising cultural importance of historical novels is reflected in the recent Booker prize shortlist, and History Today in ...

Medieval attitudes and mental exercises from magistra 87 days old

[ ... ] on religious history I’ve ever read is Peter Brown’s The body and society: men, women and spiritual renunciation in early Christianity (Columbia ...

Why I no longer read historical fiction from magistra 103 days old

[ ... ] is research history). So if I criticise historical novels, it is not with any sense of superiority or illusion that they’re easy to write. ...

IMC 2: gender and the purposes of history from magistra 122 days old

[ ... ] medieval history matters, even if I don't start citing Paul Ricoeur, as Rider did. And yet after the session a friend of mine was dismissive of ...

Ranking revolutions from magistra 308 days old

[ ... ] from history’ is the fear of a ‘civilised’ country returning to ‘barbarism’, the sense that our state too could end like that. I think a ...

A prosopography of Cambridge medievalists from magistra 335 days old

[ ... ] in medieval history at Cambridge in the same year as me: 1998-99. There were twenty two of us who started the course: here is what has happened in ...

RAE results for history from magistra 337 days old

The Research Assessment Exercise results for 2008 are now out, in theory telling us (among other things) the UK history departments doing the highest ...

Hard church, soft church, no church from magistra 484 days old

[ ... ] look at the history of Christianity in England is also revealing. (I’m focusing on England here, not because the Scottish and Welsh denominations ...

Quality control of historians from magistra 584 days old

[ ... ] such bad history? I have just read an article in May’s History Today magazine (not yet on their website). This is Anthony Pagden, ‘Perpetual ...

Should historians be public intellectuals? from magistra 588 days old

[ ... ] of the history of the word ‘intellectual’ (and possibly ‘public’) and a sketch of culture and its audiences since the Enlightenment, in order ...