By Barbara A. Hanawalt (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) To be labeled "of ill repute" in medieval society implied that a person had committed a violation of accepted standards and had stepped beyond the bounds of permissible behavior. To have a reputation "of good repute", however, was so powerful as to help a person accused of a … Continued
By William Craft Brumfield (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russian Architecture has remained the most comprehensive study of the topic in English, a volume that defines the main components and sources for Russia’s architectural traditions in their historical context, from the early medieval period to the present. This edition includes … Continued
By Jutta Schickore (NHC Fellow, 2011–12)
By Judith M. Bennett (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing … Continued
By David Strand (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) In this cogent and insightful reading of China’s twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life—one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China’s social and cultural order. Chinese citizens … Continued
By Deborah Epstein Nord (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) and Maria DiBattista In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women’s writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class … Continued
By Christopher Melchert (NHC Fellow, 2014–15) Christopher Melchert proposes to historicize Islamic renunciant piety (zuhd). As the conquest period wound down in the early eighth century c.e., renunciants set out to maintain the contempt of worldly comfort and loyalty to a greater cause that had characterized the community of Muslims in the seventh century. Instead … Continued
Edited by David W. Wills (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) and Richard Newman
By William E. Leuchtenburg (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1979–80; 1980–81)
By Maureen Warner-Lewis (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) Central Africa in the Caribbean is the product of more than three decades of research. Maureen Warner-Lewis’s pioneering study analyses some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean, with fascinating transatlantic comparative data. She identifies Central African cultural forms in areas settled by the … Continued