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Western European Studies
Interviews with scholars of Western Europe about their new books.
August 1, 2026
The Kiss
The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power (Reaktion, 2026) by Professor Katie Barclay tells the surprising history of our most intimate gesture: th…
July 30, 2026
Restoring the Ancient Religion
Restoring the Ancient Religion: The Theurgic Orthopraxy of Iamblichus (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026) reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late An…
July 28, 2026
The Greater Second World War
Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor, The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, 2025) This ambitious edited collection …
July 26, 2026
Whispers from Celtic Seas
What if the legends of submerged cities, land-making witches and sea-crossing bishops are not mere inventions but echoes of real events? Whispers …
July 25, 2026
Elisabeth van Houts, "Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English"
Born in 1102, Empress Matilda combined the blood of two dynasties: the house of Wessex and their conquerors, the dukes of Normandy. As a widowed Germa…
July 24, 2026
Student Internationalism and the Global Cold War
In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast, I sat down with Mikuláš Pešta to talk about his new book, Student Internationalism and the Global …
July 22, 2026
The New Age of Genocide
The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and lawyers…
July 20, 2026
Art and Citizenship in Conflict
Art and Citizenship in Conflict: British Women War Artists, 1939-45 (Manchester UP, 2026) by Dr. Lucy Curzon examines the work of women war artists in…
July 15, 2026
The Forger of Paris
The Forger of Paris (Doppelhouse Press, 2025) presents Adolfo Kaminsky’s biography in its only authorized edition, expanded with photographs from Kami…
July 14, 2026
The Fifth Crusade
In 1217, the crusader states were in a highly fragile condition. The Fourth Crusade had failed, and Jerusalem had not been recovered. The crusad…
July 13, 2026
Cats
For more than 10,000 years, cats have prowled at the edges of human life. But, starting only a few decades ago, hundreds of millions of them bec…
July 9, 2026
The Land Where Nothing Works
What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint,…
July 8, 2026
Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England
In the bustling market towns and growing cities of medieval England between 1200 and 1600, public works were the lifelines of urban society. In …
July 3, 2026
Smell
The sense of smell is often linked to the dark, the antisocial, the primitive—the very opposite of modernity and progress. Today we live in an a…
July 2, 2026
Chinese EVs
Can Europe afford to stand back as China rewrites the global electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem? In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen at the University of …
July 2, 2026
The First Emancipation
The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France (Princeton UP, 2026) is a dramatic account of how slavery and race …
June 30, 2026
Gregory Ghosts: Haunting Irishness
Kevin P. Reilly is President Emeritus and Regent Professor with the University of Wisconsin System, having served as President from 2004-13. Kevin gr…
June 26, 2026
Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting
Between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries, European painting underwent a profound transformation as artists increasingly painted on …
June 25, 2026
Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987
From the inside flap: “A rich resource of Deleuze’s research that is unavailable in his published writing Includes summaries of 216 seminar sessio…
June 23, 2026
The Firearm Revolution
In Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a desirable object, a luxury item carried at court. Guns were in use on the battlefi…