History

City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson, Editors 1994 Spring

Drawing examples from Spain, England, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, most of them in the fifteenth century, the contributors explore the uses of ceremony as statements of political power, as pleas for divine intercession, and as expressions of popular culture. Their essays show us spectacles meant to confirm events such as victories, the signing of a city charter, or the coronation of a king. In other circumstances, the spectacle acts as a battleground where a struggle for the control of the metaphors of power is played out between factions within cities or between cities and kings. Still other ceremonies called upon divine spiritual powers in the hope that their intervention might save the urban inhabitants. Contributors; Lorraine Attreed, Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Lawrence McBride Bryant, Maureen Flynn, Barbara A. Hanawalt, Bram Kempers, Sheila Lindenbaum, Ben R. McRee, James Murray, David Nicholas, Gerard Nijsten, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Kathryn L. Reyerson, and Teofilo R. Ruiz.

Storm from Paradise The Politics of Jewish Memory Jonathan Boyarin 1992 Spring

”An essay in the richest sense of that term, inspired by and modeled on Walter Benjamin’s essays. Based on varied, diverse, and abundantly cross-disciplinary readings, it moves and builds, questions and interrogates, and ultimately convinces us that the Jewish experience with being the ‘other’ and, conversely and recently, with ‘othering’ is indeed relevant to theorists of contemporary culture.” --Marianne Hirsch

The Medieval Mediterranean Cross-Cultural Contacts Marilyn J. Chiat and Kathryn L. Reyerson, Editors 1991 Spring

The Emergence of Social Space Rimbaud and the Paris Commune Kristin Ross 1989 Spring

Rimbaud’s poems feature in this re-creation of the Communard experience. "This engaging study does much to open up new areas of research. . . . Extremely well documented." --South Atlantic Review

Control of the Imaginary Reason and Imagination in Modern Times Luiz Costa Lima 1988 Fall

Draws on English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish literary traditions to examine the relationship between Western notions of reason and subjectivity from the Renaissance to the first decade of the twentieth century.

History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics Volume XI William Aspray and Philip Kitcher, Editors 1988 Spring

Essays in Ancient Philosophy Michael Frede 1987 Spring

Eastern Europe 1740-1985 Feudalism to Communism Robin Okey 1987 Spring

Traces the development of Eastern European countries, showing their struggle to overcome the legacy of underdevelopment and dependence left by the Turks and the Hapsburgs. “This concise, sprightly work considers some of the common historical traditions in the political awakening of Eastern Europe since the eighteenth century. . . . Informed and thought-provoking.” --Library Journal

Between East and West Finland in International Politics, 1944-1947 Tuomo Polvinen D.G. Kirby and Peter Herring, Editors None

Reproductions of Banality Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life Alice Yaeger Kaplan 1986 Fall

India Waits Jan Myrdal None

Uncertain Dimensions Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century Raymond F. Betts 1985 Spring

Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 Lyle N. McAlister 1984 Fall

A narrative and interpretive history of Spanish and Portuguese exploration, settlement, and colonization of the Americas.

Solidarity Forever An Oral History of the IWW Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffer None

Scenes from the Drama of European Literature Erich Auerbach 1984 Spring

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