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In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press 2018), Geraldine Heng collects a remarkable array of medieval approac…
A searching and richly textured history of the affinities and common origins of Latin American and North American liberation theologies, The World Com…
A sharply observed study of the representations of education found in Anglo-Saxon texts, Irina Dumitrescu’s The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon…
Since it was published in 2016, Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press, 2016)…
The list is the origin of culture. At least, that's according to Umberto Eco, whose words open Liam Cole Young's new book, List Cultures: Knowledge…
A deft and searching exploration of genre theory through science fiction, and science fiction through genre theory, John Rieder's Science Fiction and …
A revealing exploration of representative modes of medievalism, Medievalism: A Critical History (Boydell & Brewer; hardcover 2015, paperback 2017)…
"Boxing has always attracted writers because it issues a standing challenge to their powers of description and imagination, and also a warning--really…
In the age of the railroad, social movements, revivals, and campaigns for political office spread like wildfire across the United States. Leaders and …
Beginning with a network of reformed figures that orbited around Billy Graham, from J. Howard Pew's money to Carl Henry's passion for cultural esteem,…
"Surveillance and literature, as kindred practices, have light to shed on each other." When David Rosen and Aaron Santesso considered the disciplin…
In Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), Scott Selisker offers readers a fascinat…
Dilapidated thirteenth-century walls as a playscape for today's children, medieval relics made as fetish objects for twenty-first century enthusiasts,…
Was the War for American Independence really about American independence? It depends on who you ask. In his new book, Brothers at Arms: American In…
Was Hegel a medieval thinker? In The Birth of Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Andrew Cole puts forward a reexamination of Hegelian dial…
Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London, began developing his histor…
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Clarke's third law, coined in 1973, expresses the difficulty that people of a…