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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 16h

Reminder: The JHI Blog's 2026 Graduate Student Symposium, “Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity” will be held this Saturday, October 17, from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Eastern. For more information and to register for the Zoom event, visit the blog here: www.jhiblog.org/2026/08/24/r...

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The latest issue of the journal includes an article by İlker Aytürk and Anıl Kahvecioğlu: "The Second Life of the Constitution of Medina: On the Possibility of a Liberal Islam in Turkey in the 1990s." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/997085 @ilkerayturk.bsky.social

A quote from the article: "Although the Turkish debate on the Constitution of Medina was largely confined to Turkey, with minor ripple effects elsewhere, it nevertheless represented a faith-based, non-Western rejoinder to a largely Western conversation on multiculturalism."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The latest issue of the journal includes an article by Piotr Kuligowski and Bartłomiej Błesznowski: "Beyond the Revolutionary Motto? Three Polish Accounts of Fraternity in the Long Nineteenth Century." Read it here on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @pkuligowski.bsky.social

A quote from the article: "In a society lacking a modern discourse of political sovereignty and national cohesion (Polish territory had been split into three parts, each under the imperial rule of a different neighboring power), fraternity was a central ideal of popular movements demanding national liberation."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The new issue of the journal includes an article by Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, "'Natural Wonders Are Greater than Miracles': Christian Wolff on Supernatural Events." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Against the naive picture that would rank the supernatural higher than the natural, Wolff expressly sided with the defenders of the superiority of nature."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The new issue of the journal includes an article by Joshua Freed: "Mixing Labour and Mixed Property: The Law of Locke's Original Appropriation." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Locke's account of property acquisition [by labour mixing] is one of accession and specification and . . . his vocabulary of 'mixing,' 'joining,' and 'annexing' is not a metaphor in need of repair, but a legal language consistent with a long tradition of writing about mixed substances, mixed properties, and new forms of property."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The new issue of the journal includes an article by Markku Peltonen: "'Free Democracy' and 'Restricted Democracy' in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "The prevailing assumption that the meaning and valence of democracy were fundamentally altered only in the late eighteenth century is no longer tenable. Democracy's meaning was both thoroughly explored and substantially altered in the seventeenth century. The contention that democracy could be both free and restricted bespeaks the important changes and developments for the concept of 'democracy.'"

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The new issue of the journal includes an article by Iain McDaniel, "Democracy, Caesarism, and Kulturgeschichte: Georg Friedrich Kolb Contra Mommsen and Hellwald." Read it here on Project MUSE, with no paywall for the next few weeks: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @iainmcdaniel.bsky.social

A quote from the article: "Why are claims about progress so central to political justifications of Caesarism?"

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The new issue of the journal includes an article by Roslyn Dubler: "Juliet Mitchell, French Structuralism, and the Subject of Feminism in 1970s Britain." Read it here on Project MUSE, with no paywall for the next few weeks: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Recasting the 'turn' from women to gender to the 'pursuit of a comprehensive theory of women's oppression,' shifting from the presumed failures of 1970s feminisms to their goals, therefore opens a new way to explain the development of modern feminist thought."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The April issue of the journal includes an article by Lea Cantor and Jonathan Egid: "An Ethiopian Lucretius? Giusto da Urbino and the Origins of the Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿɘqob Controversy." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @leamundi.bsky.social

A quote from the article: "These new discoveries are the earliest evidence of suspicions of a Giusto da Urbino authorship. Remarkably, they arose in 1857-58, just under sixty years before the commonly stated date of 1916 when Conti Rossini first raised his doubts."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The latest issue of the journal includes an article by Hannah Anderson: "The Useful Caribbean: Settlers’ Botany and Plantation Cultures," available to read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Settlers' classifications emerging from lived experience forged the plantation system in the English colonies of Barbados and Jamaica by synthesizing British, African, and Indigenous knowledge and fusing it with the materialities of tropical biota."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There are twelve days left to submit a proposal to the JHI’s fall graduate symposium. You can find the call and recommended reading here: www.jhiblog.org/2026/05/07/j...

A poster advertising the JHI Graduate Symposium, 2026: "Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity." Proposals due June 22.

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The latest issue of the journal includes an article by Matti Leprêtre: "Paracelsus’s Doctrine of Signatures Reconsidered." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Paracelsus's introduction of neologisms and seemingly novel concepts partly created his own epistemological breaks, making ideas that were common in medieval and ancient medicine—like the localization of disease or the specific action of remedies—appear entirely innovative."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Paola Zichi's article "Race, Redemption, and Reform: The Interplay of Eugenics, Antisemitism, and Feminist Anti Trafficking Efforts in Early Twentieth-Century Italy" is the final piece in the JHI's cluster of articles on "Race: Histories of an Idea." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Early twentieth-century Italian feminist campaigns against the 'white slave trade' and prostitution fused positivist racial science, Jewish philanthropy, and abolitionist feminism, tying protection to surveillance. . . . This Italian experience exemplifies a broader
European entanglement between gendered emancipation and the governance of deviance, and . . . recognizing this genealogy enables a more critical engagement with the assumptions that still shape humanitarian interventions, victim-centred reforms, and feminist approaches to social justice today."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles on "Race: Histories of Idea." Shruti Balaji's contribution is "'The African Problem Is a World Problem': (Dis)locating Race in Late Colonial Indian Intellectual Thought." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @shrutibalaji.bsky.social

A quote from the article: "The (dis)location of elite Indian thought on "race" . . . presents an unstable relationship between questions of universal racial justice and anticolonial struggles in the years prior to India's independence. . . . Kamaladevi's and Naidu's thinking on Afro-Asian solidarities reveals how Indian intellectual thought on race traversed idealized notions of racial solidarities alongside hierarchical and paternalistic attitudes toward Africans under colonial rule."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles: "Race: Histories of an Idea." Ian Stewart's contribution, "Pan-Celticism and Racial Thought at the Fin de Siècle" is available to read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Some of those identifying as belonging to the Celtic race...sought likewise to use race as a constructive idea for promoting their political and cultural goals...Studying the Pan-Celtic movement in light of the better-known Pan-African movement emerging at the time reveals how different peoples interpreted and responded to their place in a racialized world."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The new issue of the journal features a cluster of articles on “Race: Histories of an Idea.” Read Meleisa Ono-George’s contribution, "'In me you see the Almighty’s wondrous Power': Amelia Newsham, Race, and Black Women’s Intellectual History in Georgian Britain": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Only by taking seriously the words of marginalized Black women and other historical actors, even if they are brief or fragmented, and the possibilities of what these might reveal will we begin to witness the ways socially and historically marginalized people attempted to intervene and engage with contemporary intellectual and political debates."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

One week to submit! The JHI Blog welcomes pitches for a forum on the conceptual history of technology. Submit a proposal by May 7. Read the call for complete information: www.jhiblog.org/2026/03/18/c...

Image announcing that pitches for the JHI Blog's forum on the "Conceptual History of Technology" are due May 7, 2026.

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The new issue of the JHI includes an article by Caio Fernandes Barbosa: "Subversive Eros: The Conservative Reception of Marcuse in the Brazilian Dictatorship (1968–69)": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "In light of the recent rise of right-wing populism, 'fake news,' and anti-intellectualism, as well as a renewed interest in Marcuse and the New Left, this article analyzes the response to Marcuse in Brazil, focusing on the phenomenon of conservative moral panic."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The latest issue of the journal includes an article by Shaivya Mishra: "Who Needs the Federation? Lala Har Dayal and the Hindu Right in a Decolonizing World": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Dayal's political experiments with the nation form, unsuccessful and muddled as they are, illustrate this complex and largely unexplored history lurking beneath the nationalism-federalisım binary shaping our understanding of decolonization in South Asia."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The new issue of the JHI features a review essay by Naomi Sussman: "Building the Future with the Past: Indigenous Authorship and the Function of Ethnography": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... This article is now free to read without a subscription.

A quote from the article: "The seven works explored in this essay mark a distinct turn in the intellectual history of ethnography. These books and essays ask what ethnographic materials are for, and what their future will be. They also indicate a rising tide of feminist interventions in ethnographic studies."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The latest issue of the JHI includes an article by Matilde Cazzola: "Toward a Conceptual History of Radical Philanthropy: Spenceanism and the Ragged-Trousered Lovers of Mankind (Imperial Britain, ca. 1790–1820)." This article is now accessible for free on Muse: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "While several charitable associations and individuals promoted philanthropy as an activity aimed at validating social hierarchies, there were differently philanthropic societies and militants for whom the highest demonstration of 'love for mankind' involved not the preservation of social order but rather its revolutionary overhaul."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The new issue of the journal includes an article by Simon Brown: "Emulation, Edification, and Labor in English Working Schools, 1670–1725": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "The English working schools made those ideas the basis of their pedagogy, with students emulating the moral examples around them and imitating their peers' skills in textile spinning. By learning from one another, these students could contribute to the economic project of England's emulation and competition with rivals in trade."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The latest issue of the JHI includes an article by Nathaniel Mull: "John Locke’s Early Tolerationism: A Critique of the Conversion Narrative": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Locke's early political essays address the long-standing political-theological conflict that engulfed early modern England by appealing separately to the two major parties to that conflict: the subjects and the sovereign."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The new issue of the JHI includes an article by Micha Lazarus, "The B’rith of Tragedy: Jewish Roots of a Stolen Genre in Early Modern Europe": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: This essay is about the history of an idea: the idea that the ancient Jews invented drama, and the Greeks thereafter stole it from them. How did the father of the 100 Protestant revolution and a Jewish theatre director, on either side of the Alps, thirty years apart, marshalling different religious and literary traditions toward we may presume) different goals, come to make the same outlandish claim? And why?

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The October issue of the journal includes an article by Ian Merkel: "Laurette Séjourné and Leonora Carrington, Ethnography and Surrealism in Mexico." Read it here on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "The critical force of much of interwar ethnography has dulled with the passage of time, but Séjourné and Carrington's engagement with Indigenous Mexico, past and present, continues to shine brightly."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The recent issue of the journal includes an article by Wojciech Engelking: "Schmitt's Reinterpretation of Hegel During His Nazi Period." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Schmitt's essays . . . in which he presents a vision of the Third Reich as a post-state political organism . . . were for him an attempt to adapt Hegel's ethical state to the conditions of the 1930s and to identify the Third Reich as the political community that most fully realized the march of the spirit."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The recent issue of the journal includes an article by Hugo Bonin: "'True Liberal Democracy . . . Belongs to Napoléon III': The Rise and Fall of Démocratie Libérale in the French Second Empire" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "In sum, démocratie libérale was not merely a theoretical project but a practical compromise—a balancing act between the demands of popular sovereignty and the fear of democratic excess. It reveals the ambivalence of both liberals and Bonapartists toward democracy, foreshadowing the uneasy cohabitation of democratic and authoritarian tendencies that continues to shape political systems today."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The new issue of the JHI includes an article by Craig Martin: "Averroes Among the Paduan Physicians, 1540 to 1600": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Openness toward Averroes signaled a turn away from the anti-Arabic polemics that roiled medical humanism in the first decades of the sixteenth century and reveal a lack of concern about philosophical controversies surrounding his views about the human soul and the eternity of the world."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

In the new issue of the JHI, Daniel Sutton explores how ancient Greek theorists struggled to find the terminology to distinguish good and bad forms of popular government: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "We do not have an appropriate word for bad democracy in our constitutional discourse; and that is because we never had one."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The new issue of the JHI includes a discussion of the lexicon project, “The Twentieth Century in Basic Concepts: A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany,” by Ernst Müller, Barbara Picht, and Falko Schmieder. Access is free for the next few weeks on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "After the disciplinary differentiation of the individual sciences, which has replaced philosophy as a universal discourse from the nineteenth century onward, and with the emergence of plural public spheres based on new media, knowledge has become splintered and fragmented, so that the forms and contexts of the production of meaning can only be explored in an interdisciplinary and historical-epistemologicai perspective."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Nayeli L. Riano's article in the new JHI, "The Pueblo and the Politics of History and Historiography in the Writings of Andrés Bello and Francisco Bilbao," is now available for free. Read it here on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A new issue of the journal is now available, with articles by Daniel Sutton, Craig Martin, Nayeli L. Riano, Hugo Bonin, Wojciech Engelking, Ian Merkel, and Ernst Müller, Barbara Picht, and Falko Schmieder. Have a look, here on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55549 @pennpress.bsky.social

What Should We Call a Bad Democracy?
DANIEL SUTTON

Averroes Among the Paduan Physicians, 1540 to 1600
CRAIG MARTIN

The Pueblo and the Politics of History and Historiography in the Writings
NAYELI L. RIANO

“True Liberal Democracy . . . Belongs to Napoléon III”: The Rise and Fall of Démocratie Libérale in the French Second Empire
HUGO BONIN

Schmitt’s Reinterpretation of Hegel During His Nazi Period
WOJCIECH ENGELKING

Laurette Séjourné and Leonora Carrington, Ethnography and Surrealism in Mexico
IAN MERKEL

The Twentieth Century in Basic Concepts: A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
ERNST MÜLLER, BARBARA PICHT, AND FALKO SCHMIEDER

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

In the journal, Victoria Smolkin and Daniel Peris examine how the interactions between two secularist organizations shaped the meaning, direction, and fate, of secularism in interwar Europe. Read the article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "While Soviet atheists were too distant, too politically weak, and too institutionally disorganized to justify the fears of religious conservatives, the anxieties of liberal freethinkers, or the hopes of radical secularists, Soviet atheism nevertheless cast a long shadow and left a lasting legacy."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Rolf Strøm-Olsen explores how patterns of musical consumption were shaped by the authority of music-critical journalism in "Applied Aesthetics and the Musical Public on the Threshold of Romanticism." Read it here in the latest issue of the JHI: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @rstromolsen.bsky.social

A quote from the article: "The music-critical discourse of the early nineteenth century sought to become, in effect, a market-making system, with the aesthetic stakes of music hanging in the balance. It also sought thereby to shape, through the market, the musical public in such a way that the public’s own cultural aspirations could be redeemed in aesthetic terms."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Ingrid Schreiber: "Egoism and Sociability in the Kantian Public Sphere" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "We may never truly be alone in Kantianism, but we are also never really together—perhaps to our ultimate advantage."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Kaarlo Havu: "Rhetoric, Ambivalence, and Dissension in Renaissance Catholic Europe During the Sixteenth Century": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Jesuit discussions on the avoidance of public antagonism in the spirit of decorum or accommodation could be seen, at least in part, as a reaction to the ambivalent powers of rhetoric to address the senses and emotions of the people. They wanted to incorporate the powers of eloquence but preferably within genres that did not nurture open confrontation."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The new issue of the JHI includes an article by Luuk de Boer: "The Abstract King: Hellenistic Royal Wills and the Immortal State": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "In the domain of public law, the last will and testament laces the holders of power into what may, by analogy, be called an undying office or perhaps an abstraction—the office of the scholarch or, indeed, the abstract king."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The latest issue of the JHI includes an article by Sophie Scott-Brown: "'A Real WEA Tutor': G. D. H. Cole, Socialist Democracy, and the Politics of Persona"—free for the next few weeks: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "To Cole, democracy was an ongoing social inquiry made on ever-shifting grounds. This inquiry required many forms of knowledge as well as complete emotional and intellectual agility from its participants, a comprehensiveness that no single curriculum, learning theory, or pedagogical method alone could capture, let alone ensure."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Kirsten Macfarlane's article in the summer issue of the JHI, "Written in the Stars? Alphabets and Angels in Early Modern Europe," is free to read and download for the next few weeks: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "This is a story about how easily erudition could upset the more fragile areas of the post- Reformation theological consensus, and yet it is also a story about how rapidly erudition could become as inflated and speculative as the most cynical early modern caricature of medieval scholasticism."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

In the latest issue of the JHI, Mikołaj Ratajczak delineates the genealogy of “biopolitics” in the discourse on the “biology of the state": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "The biology of the state might be the most radical theoretical example of what we would like to call here a 'biopolitical tendency to naturalize the social.'"

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The latest JHI includes an article by Myriam Bienenstock, "Assessing Ethical Culture in Germany: Friedrich Albert Lange, Felix Adler—and Hermann Cohen": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Felix Adler had defined the program of his New York Society for Ethical Culture as that of a 'practical religion,' and even if [Hermann] Cohen did agree with Adler’s fight against particularism, a fight he himself defined as a fight for 'all' human beings, he believed that such a fight cannot be led by means of a religion, whichever it is. It should be furthered politically."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Olga Lenczewska: "Kant on Moral Education and the Origins of Humanity" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Sam Kennerley contributes the final article on the Greek Fathers in the latest JHI: "A 'Lost Renaissance' of Patristic Scholarship? Unpublished Latin Translations of John Chrysostom Created in Italy Between 1575 and 1585": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "The loss of these translations paints another picture of censorship in early modern Italy to be hung beside those of earlier studies. Here we find not eagle-eyed censors imperiously rooting out any trace of heresy, nor men of letters happily collaborating on the dismemberment and reassembly of their works. We instead find overworked scholars leaving their manuscripts on the desks of equally overworked censors, until these manuscripts were forgotten or rendered obsolete by rival publications."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

In the latest issue of the journal, Maria Fallica considers the patristic anthologies curated by Herman Hamelmann to understand the early modern reception of the Greek Fathers during the inception of Lutheran confessionalization: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "Obscure and challenging authors, such as Clement of Alexandria, were rescued from library shelves and thrust into the intellectual fray, gaining newfound but ambiguous fame."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

In the latest issue of the JHI, Marta Quatrale explores Melanchthon's editions of the Greek Fathers. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "In Melanchthon’s view, the study of Nazianzus and the other eloquent Greek Fathers he had been promoting in Wittenberg through his courses and editions was instrumental for forming the future generation of Reformed leaders and scholars and ensuring they would not suffer defeats such as the one experienced in Leipzig by Karlsdatdt and, less manifestly, by Luther."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The cluster on the Greek Fathers in the new JHI includes an article by Christa Lundberg: "Humanist Translation and the Parisian Tradition: Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’s ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite" muse.jhu.edu/article/959039

A quote from the article: "Against the recent Platonizing interpretations of ps.-Dionysius, Lefèvre introduced his edition as an antidote brewed from the scholarly and religious resources of Paris."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The cluster on Greek patristics in the new JHI includes an article by Francisco Bastitta Harriet: "Studying, Translating, and Editing the Greek Fathers in Lorenzo’s Florence: Pico, Poliziano, and Ficino" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "While Ficino primarily viewed the Fathers through the lens of their alignment with the Platonic tradition and Poliziano approached their works as a repository of classical references and eloquence, Pico pursued a more comprehensive engagement with the Greek Fathers, valuing their philosophical insights beyond the confines of Platonism and integrating their perspectives into his broader intellectual endeavors."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In the new JHI, a cluster on the Greek Fathers opens with Annet den Haan's article, "Patristic Translations and the Patronage of Pope Nicholas V." muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "While a more systematic translation program for patristics would have fit well in Nicholas’s patronage, in practice, it appears that his support for patristic translations was mostly incidental."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles, "Context and Paratext: New Insights into the Early Modern Reception of the Greek Fathers." The introduction by organizer Paolo Sachet is now available open access: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quote from the article: "What can we learn about early modern patristic reception by conceiving of publishers, editors, translators, patrons, correctors, censors, and compositors as creators of patristic books? Looking at editions in their making, rather than just the final product, reveals failures, compromises, and second thoughts that are crucial to a complete understanding of the works and their reception."

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In the new JHI, Nitzan Lebovic (@nitzanl1.bsky.social) writes about complicity and the Kastner Affair. This article is now available open access. Read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

A quotation from the article: "Complicity will be understood here as a concept that characterizes 'soft' forms of intention that are easy to deny in court, or temporary positions that may change with the circumstances. Focusing on complicity bypasses the perpetrator-victim dichotomy in favor of a discursive and historical analysis of the entanglement between individuals and institutions."

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