By Constantin Fasolt (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no … Continued
By Jeremy D. Popkin (NHC Fellow, 2000–01; 2012–13) Though history and autobiography both claim to tell true stories about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subjective and therefore unreliable. What then, asks Jeremy D. Popkin in History, Historians, and Autobiography, are we to make of the ever-increasing number of professional historians who are … Continued
By Carolyn Higbie (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) Carolyn Higbie uses an inscription of the first century BC from Lindos to study the ancient Greeks and their past. The inscription contains two inventories. The first catalogues some forty objects given to Athena Lindia by figures from the mythological past (including Heracles, Helen, and Menelaus) and the historical … Continued
By Elizabeth A. Clark (NHC Fellow, 1988–89; 2001–02) In this work of sweeping erudition, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues forcefully for a renewal of the study of premodern Western history … Continued
By Richard W. Pfaff (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) This book provides a comprehensive historical treatment of the Latin liturgy in medieval England. Richard Pfaff constructs a history of the worship carried out in churches – cathedral, monastic, or parish – primarily through the surviving manuscripts of service books, and sets this within the context of the … Continued
Edited by John Higham (NHC Fellow, 1987–88; 1988–89)
Edited by Melvin Richter (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and Hartmut Lehmann
By Yehoshua Arieli (NHC Fellow, 1979–80)
Edited by Richard Lim (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) and Carole Ellen Straw
By Richard W. Pfaff (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) This book includes four hitherto unpublished papers together with a substantial introductory historiographical and bibliographical overview. Many of the studies concern the liturgical views of figures like Lanfranc, St Hugh of Lincoln, and William of Malmesbury (an edition of William’s Abbreviatio Amalarii is included) and the ways Thomas … Continued