No 26 (2023): Cromohs

Issue Description

THE DESTRUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEBREW BOOKS
Ed. by Miriam Benfatto and Elena Lolli

Miriam Benfatto and Elena Lolli, The Destruction and Preservation of Hebrew Books. New Sources and Methodologies for Studying Catholic Censorship and Other Forms of Dismemberment and Rescue of Hebrew Texts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Miriam Benfatto, Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Holy Office, the Jews and Voltaire. Censorship Notes on La difesa de’ libri santi e della religione giudaica (Venice, 1770)

Elena Lolli, Surviving Hebrew Accounts From the European Genizah. The Earliest Ledger of a Jewish Pawnshop in Italy

Kenneth Stow, Censorship: Books, the Halakhah, and Jewish Continuity, A Synoptic Overview

Mauro Perani, Causes, Methods, and Manifestations of the Destruction of Hebrew Manuscripts

HISTORIANS AND THEIR CRAFT
Interview with Martin Mulsow
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

ANALYTICAL CONCEPTS FOR TRANSCULTURAL SETTINGS
PATHWAYS IN GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY 
Ed. by Luc Wodzicki

Luc Wodzicki and Sebastian Conrad, Analytical Concepts for Transcultural Settings: Pathways in Global Intellectual History

Paulina Dominik, Just ‘a Strange Polish Muslim’? Seyfeddin Thadée Gasztowtt, the 1905 Global Moment and Biography in Global Intellectual History

Daniel Kolland, Global Performances of a Belated Concept: Revisiting Modernity through Concept History

Sébastien Tremblay, Queerness—What Would the Queers Do? Analytical Concepts, Fluidity, and the Potential of Queer Semantic Fields for Global History

Luc Wodzicki, The Transculturality of Virtue in the Early Modern Mediterranean. A Case Study in Florentine-Ottoman Relations

Leonie Wolters, Lost in Anti-Imperialist Translation. The Universal Contexts of M. N. Roy (1887–1954)


BOOK REVIEWS

Clare Anderson, Convicts: A Global History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022
Bianca Rosi

Catia Antunes, ed., Pursuing Empire: Brazilians, the Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil and the South Atlantic, c.1620-1660, Leiden: Brill, 2022
Stuart Schwartz

Kevin Bovier, La Renaissance de Tacite. Commenter les Histoires et les Annales aux XVIe siècle, Basel and Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2022
Lorenzo Paoli

Giulia Iannuzzi, Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment: Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733), Turnhout: Brepols, 2024
Jason Pearl

Martin Mulsow, Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023
Tobias Winnerling

Vanessa Righettoni, Bianco su nero. Iconografia della razza e guerra d’Etiopia, Milan: Fondazione Passaré; Macerata: Quodlibet, 2018
Chiara Costa

Jean-Frédéric Schaub e Silvia Sebastiani, Race et histoire dans les sociétés occidentales (XVe-XVIIIe siècles), Paris: Albin Michel, 2021
Girolamo Imbruglia

Cover image: Jan Davidsz de Heem, Still Life with Books and a Violin. 1628. Courtesy of Mauritshuis, The Hague. https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/613-still-life-with-books-and-a-violin/

 

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Table of Contents

The Destruction and Preservation of Hebrew Books

The Destruction and Preservation of Hebrew Books: New Sources and Methodologies for Studying Catholic Censorship and Other Forms of Dismemberment and Rescue of Hebrew Texts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Miriam Benfatto, Elena Lolli
1-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14239
Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Holy Office, the Jews and Voltaire. Censorship Notes on La difesa de’ libri santi e della religione giudaica (Venice, 1770)
Miriam Benfatto
8-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14233
Surviving Hebrew Accounts From the European Genizah. The Earliest Ledger of a Jewish Pawnshop in Italy
Elena Lolli
24-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14370
Censorship: Books, the Halakhah, and Jewish Continuity, A Synoptic Overview
Kenneth Stow
37-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14238
Causes, Methods, and Manifestations of the Destruction of Hebrew Manuscripts
Mauro Perani
48-58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14237

Historians and Their Craft

An Interview with Martin Mulsow
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
59-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14908

Analytical Concepts for Transcultural Settings. Pathways in Global Intellectual History

Analytical Concepts for Transcultural Settings: Pathways in Global Intellectual History
Luc Wodzicki, Sebastian Conrad
72-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-15310
Just 'a Strange Polish Muslim'? Seyfeddin Thadée Gasztowtt, the 1905 Global Moment and Biography in Global Intellectual History
Paulina Dominik
76-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14648
Global Performances of a Belated Concept: Revisiting Modernity Through Concept History
Daniel Kolland
95-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14516
Queerness—What Would the Queers Do? Analytical Concepts, Fluidity, and the Potential of Queer Semantic Fields for Global History
Sébastien Tremblay
114-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14502
The Transculturality of Virtue in the Early Modern Mediterranean: A Case Study in Florentine-Ottoman Relations
Luc Wodzicki
132-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14743
Lost in Anti-Imperialist Translation: The Universal Contexts of M. N. Roy (1887–1954)
Leonie Wolters
158-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14558

Book Reviews

Convicts: A Global History
Bianca Rosi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14898
Pursuing Empire: Brazilians, the Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil and the South Atlantic, c.1620-1660
Stuart B. Schwartz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14928
La Renaissance de Tacite: Commenter les Histoires et les Annales au XVIe siècle
Lorenzo Paoli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14892
Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment: Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733)
Jason Pearl
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-15348
Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History
Tobias Winnerling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14735
Bianco su Nero: Iconografia della razza e della guerra d’Etiopia
Chiara Costa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-15210
Race et histoire dans les sociétés occidentales : (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)
Girolamo Imbruglia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-15165
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