"If the vibrancy in Thinking in the Past is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims with insights from such diverse fields as the hist…
"Thomas Christensen's previous title 1616 : The World in Motion looked at a single year in the age of early maritime globalism--PW gave it a starred review, calling it 'a stunning overview of the nascent modern world.' By contrast his new gorgeously illustrated River of Ink rang…
In "The world as idea", Charles P. Webel presents an intellectual history of one of the most influential concepts known to humanity, that of "the world". Webel traces the development of "the world" through the past, depicting the history of the world as an intellectual construct…
"Using France as the most representative case of a Catholic context, Andre J. Belanger argues that as French society became more secularized intellectuals replaced the clergy as arbitrators of justice and enlightenment. Catholic morality was consolidated by the scholastic tradit…
