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CLST 383: Humanism of Antiquity: Greece
Henry III
1207-1258
Vol. 1
The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III’s rule, from when he first assumed the crown to the moment his personal rule ended Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry...
The Warm South
How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination
An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the...
Modernism for the Masses
Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York
A mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals became a crucial site for the...
Overcoming Necessity
Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism
An argument for why emergencies are no excuse for extralegal action by presidents Using emergency as a cause for action ultimately leads to an almost unnoticed evolution in the political understanding of...
Anger
The Conflicted History of an Emotion
Tracing the story of anger from the Buddha to Twitter, Rosenwein provides a much-needed account of our changing and contradictory understandings of this emotion All of us think we know when we are angry,...
Celestial Mirror
The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II
Explore the eighteenth-century Indian astronomical observatories called the Jantar Mantars, massive, stunning structures built to observe and understand the heavens Between 1724 and 1730, Maharajah Sawaii...
Bernini's Michelangelo
A novel exploration of the threads of continuity, rivalry, and self-conscious borrowing that connect the Baroque innovator with his Renaissance paragon Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), like all ambitious...