By Mark Mazower (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) The end of the First World War saw old empires swept away and the opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. Yet the result was division and bloodshed on an unprecedented scale, as liberal democracy, communism and fascism struggled against one another for mastery of the world. … Continued
Edited by Leslie Tuttle (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Ann Marie Plane In Europe and North and South America during the early modern period, people believed that their dreams might be, variously, messages from God, the machinations of demons, visits from the dead, or visions of the future. Interpreting their dreams in much the same ways … Continued
By Franz BorkenauEdited by Richard Lowenthal (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) A history of Western civilization that looks at each preceding era’s influence on the next, and predicts future developments in our culture.
By Norman A. Kutcher (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in the first century and a half of the Qing dynasty (1644–1800). This period encompassed the reigns of three of China’s most important emperors, men who were … Continued
By Fiona Somerset (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) "Lollard" is the name given to followers of John Wyclif, the English dissident theologian who was dismissed from Oxford University in 1381 for his arguments regarding the eucharist. A forceful and influential critic of the ecclesiastical status quo in the late fourteenth century, Wyclif's thought was condemned at the … Continued
By Andrea Frisch (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) By juxtaposing representations of the French civil war past as they appear (and frequently overlap) in historiography and tragedy from 1550-1630, Andrea Frisch tracks changes in the ways in which history and tragedy sought to 'move' readers throughout the period of the wars and in their wake. The book … Continued
By Alice Kaplan (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American quest for an imaginary … Continued
By Thomas A. Brady, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation … Continued
By Harold G. Marcus (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Always controversial during his lifetime (1892-1975), Haile Selassie became, after his dethronement in 1974, a political icon to some, a monster to others, and to all a legend. There is no understanding modern Ethiopia without a grasp of the Emperor's life. This first volume of a projected three-volume … Continued
Edited by Maria Georgopoulou (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Irini Solomonidi The New Griffon volume 12 seeks to highlight several discoveries in a variety of areas and time periods: Father Konstantinos Terzopoulos explores 16 manuscripts of Byzantine chant; Leonora Navari presents the published works of Cardinal Bessarion, one of the heroes of Joannes Gennadius because of his … Continued