Edited by F. S. Naiden (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Christopher A. Faraone The interpretation of animal sacrifice, now considered the most important ancient Greek and Roman religious ritual, has long been dominated by the views of Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne. No penetrating and general critique of their views has appeared … Continued
By Charles Caramello (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Focusing on biographical portraiture, Charles Caramello argues that Henry James and Gertrude Stein performed biographical acts in two senses of the phrase: they wrote biography, but as a cover for autobiography. Constructing literary genealogies while creating original literary forms, they used their biographical portraits of precursors and contemporaries to … Continued
By Leo Spitzer (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) Desperate to escape the increasingly vehement persecution in their homelands, thousands of refugees from Nazi-dominated Central Europe, the majority of them Jews, found refuge in Latin America in the 1930s. Bolivia became a principal recipient of this influx — one of the few remaining places in the entire world … Continued
By Michael Lienesch (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, … Continued
By Jean Bethke Elshtain (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 2000–01) In this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential “public intellectual” Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean Bethke Elshtain explores Addams’s legacy thematically and chronologically, recounting her embrace of “social feminism,” her challenge to the usual cleavage between “conservative” and “liberal,” and the growth of Chicago’s … Continued
By Donald Crummey (NHC Fellow, 1992–93)
By Lorenzo de’ MediciEdited by Melissa Meriam Bullard (NHC Fellow, 1998–99)
By William Craft Brumfield (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine, and massive political terror tested the limits of human endurance. The results of this assault on Russian culture are particularly evident in ruined architectural monuments, some of which are little known even … Continued
By Irena Kossowska (NHC Fellow, 2009–10)
Edited by Alastair Minnis (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) and Rosalynn Voaden The first comprehensive survey of the major – but much neglected – contribution made by holy women to the religious culture of the later Middle Ages. Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition offers the first wide-ranging study of the remarkable women who contributed to the … Continued