CromohsPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-24553
A. Thomson
{"title":"Global intellectual history : some reflections on recent publications","authors":"A. Thomson","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-24553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-24553","url":null,"abstract":"Ann Thomson is Professor of Intellectual History at the European University Institute. She works on the intellectual history of the long Eighteenth Century, in particular on the ‘natural history of man’ and the circulation of ideas and cultural exchange. Recent works include The Enlightenment in Scotland: National and International Perspectives , edited with Jean-Francois Dunyach (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2015), L’âme des Lumieres (Seyssel: Champvallon, 2013), Cultural Transfers: France and Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century , edited with Simon Burrows and Edmond Dziembowski (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010), and Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"21 1","pages":"133-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.13128/CROMOHS-24553","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-20145
F. Alfieri
{"title":"Adriano Prosperi, Infanticide, Secular Justice, and Religious Debate in Early Modern Europe , Turnhout, Brepols, 2016","authors":"F. Alfieri","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-20145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-20145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"20 1","pages":"142-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-20134
Benjamin D. Steiner
{"title":"The Monuments of Empire Global Material Culture, “Colonial” Spaces and Emotional Styles in French Senegambia (c.1630–c.1730)","authors":"Benjamin D. Steiner","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-20134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-20134","url":null,"abstract":"Cap Gaspar (present-day Dakar, Senegal), 1635. It must have been a curious scene when two men – French Capuchins wearing large robes of brown woolen cloth – crawled through the small door of a house into a maze of narrow corridors and alleys finally entering a larger room. A man, who made the sign of the cross, raised his eyes to the sky and showed them two paintings of the king of France and the king of Spain, greeted them affectionately. He explained that these portraits represented ‘prototypes’ of Christians, who already dwelled in paradise. The monks, impressed by the simplicity of his explanation, offered to bring him more devotional objects when they returned.1","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"54 1","pages":"52-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-20132
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
{"title":"Overlaps and Intersections in New Scholarship on Empires, Beliefs, and Emotions","authors":"Merry Wiesner-Hanks","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-20132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-20132","url":null,"abstract":"Feminist standpoint theory and post-modernism have both taught us that our position matters, so I would like to establish mine. I am not a historian of the emotions, though perhaps better said I have never defined myself as such, and I am writing this in August of 2016 in the United States. Earlier this summer voters in Britain voted to leave the European Union, and Republicans in the United States chose as their presidential candidate a man who has never held political office and has little familiarity with the world other than its golf courses, casinos, and hotels. Both those who supported and those who were appalled by these decisions saw emotions as voters’ key motivations, and, somewhat surprisingly, were not that different in describing these emotions: anger, fear, resentment, nostalgia. If I am to understand today’s politics, perhaps I should become a historian of the emotions.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-20144
Antonio Rizzi
{"title":"Massimo Rospocher, Il papa guerriero: Giulio II nello spazio pubblico europeo , Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015","authors":"Antonio Rizzi","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-20144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-20144","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"12 1","pages":"138-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-20133
Susan Broomhall
{"title":"Performances of entangled emotions and beliefs: French and Spanish cultural transformations on the sixteenth-century Florida peninsula","authors":"Susan Broomhall","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-20133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-20133","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores how interpretations and practices of entangled emotions and beliefs were critical to European engagement with Florida during the mid-sixteenth century. It analyses emotional performances of religious, racial and cultural beliefs that lay at the heart of colonising activities of both the French and Spanish, articulated in affective forms such as facial expression, gestures, sexual practices and violent acts, and rhetorically in verbal encounters and textual presentations. It contends that these performances occurred both as practices in the Florida region and Europe, and through rhetorical and visual forms in contemporary epistolary, manuscript and printed texts. The study argues that conflicting European activities with indigenous peoples and lands in Florida produced complex emotional and affective labour among European and indigenous agents — rulers, captains, crews, spiritual envoys and diplomatic personnel. This essay suggests new insights into colonial power relations may be suggested by consideration of emotions in cross-cultural performances, in securing diplomatic relations, or as an unexpected, disruptive force to other behaviours within official negotiations. In the eyes of participants, through these entangled belief and emotional performances about Florida, indigenous, French and Spanish peoples were themselves all culturally transformed. The essay analyses performances of entangled emotions and beliefs — religious, racial and cultural — that lay at the heart of colonising activities of both the French and Spanish in a region that has became known today as Florida. These emotional performances of belief, I contend, occurred in multiple sites, both in practices in the Florida region and Europe, and also through rhetorical and visual forms in contemporary epistolary, manuscript and printed texts. I argue that conflicting European activities with local peoples and lands in Florida produced what were perceived as cultural transformations through complex emotional and affective labour that expressed divergent religious, racial and cultural beliefs among European and indigenous agents. These emotional performances were articulated in affective forms through bodies, facial expression and gestures, sexual practices and violent acts. Others were expressed rhetorically in verbal encounters and textual presentations. These were sophisticated forms of emotional labour, performed by a range of participating agents from indigenous and European leaders, captains and crews, to","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"20 1","pages":"25-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.13128/Cromohs-20135
E. Tortarolo
{"title":"Is There a Happy Degrowth in Historical Studies? The Jinan Mall, Chinese Globality and Italian Historiography","authors":"E. Tortarolo","doi":"10.13128/Cromohs-20135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/Cromohs-20135","url":null,"abstract":"It comes naturally to historians to put into perspective the scientific conferences they have attended only many years later, after time has made it easier to distinguish between what turns out to be merely contingent and what fits a pattern of development clearly visible with the benefit of hindsight. However, there are good reasons for taking stock of the 2015 Jinan conference before first impressions have completely faded. As on many previous occasions, the Italian Committee has made the decision to publicly review the conference and the role of the Italian participants. In doing so it has followed a well-established tradition that has a lot to commend it. First of all, it provides an opportunity to gather information on what occurred at the conference for the benefit of those who funded the attendance of many of the speakers, at least partially (essentially the tax-payers of this or a later generation). Secondly, from a specifically scientific point of view, it allows those in charge to improve the quality and representativeness of the Italian delegation at the next congress, in Poznan in 2020. Thirdly, it allows a critical assessment of the international trends most visible in Jinan.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"20 1","pages":"77-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66144997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-20140
U. Grassi
{"title":"Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)making of Gender: Historical and Cultural Perspective, ed. by Anna Foka and Jonas Liliequist, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015","authors":"U. Grassi","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-20140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-20140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"20 1","pages":"118-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.13128/Cromohs-20142
Nicholas Mithen
{"title":"Martin Mulsow, Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 1680-1720 (translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort), Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2015","authors":"Nicholas Mithen","doi":"10.13128/Cromohs-20142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/Cromohs-20142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"20 1","pages":"126-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}