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/