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Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of A Revolution in Language: The Politics of Signs in Eighteenth-Century France (2001); Common Sense: A Political History (2011), which won the Mark Lynton History Prize and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize; and Democracy and Truth: A Short History (2019).
Peter T. Struck is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts (2004); and Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Antiquity (2016). Both won the Goodwin Award for best book in Classical Studies. He is co-editor, with Rita Copeland, of The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (2010).
No review can fully do justice to the extent of erudition the contributors demonstrate in this six-volume set. ... These are complex texts in the classic academic sense.
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This is a very welcome and valuable addition to humanity’s cultural heritage, and I recommend it highly for any research library, as well as scholars in any of the fields of study it engages with. A great publishing effort.
Sun News Austin
These six new volumes, stylishly presented and curated, often elegantly written, have been edited together as <i>A Cultural History of Ideas</i>, ranging from the ancient world almost to the present … It makes for an interesting intellectual engagement, and a useful resource for those looking to track, say, different accounts of “nature” from Plato to the planetary scales of the Anthropocene.
- Duncan Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement
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How has the nature of ideas evolved over time? How have ideas been shaped, employed and received in different social and cultural contexts?
In a work that spans 2,800 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 62 experts, each contributing an overview of a particular theme in a specific period in history. The volumes explore the development of ideas , primarily in the West, from a range of disciplinary angles.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole and, for ease of navigation, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This schema offers the reader the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes or following one theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the 6.
The 6 volumes cover: 1. – Classical Antiquity (800 BCE - 500 CE); 2. – Medieval Age (500 - 1450); 3. – Renaissance (1450 - 1650) ; 4. – Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. – Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. – Modern Age (1920 – 2000+).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: Knowledge; The Human Self; Ethics and Social Relations; Politics and Economies; Nature; Religion and the Divine; Language, Poetry and Rhetoric; The Arts; History.
The page extent is approximately 1,728pp with c. 240 illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors, Series Preface and Introduction, and concludes with Notes, Bibliography and an Index.
A Cultural History of Ideas is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com . Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .
Volume 1: A Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity
Edited by Clifford Ando, University of Chicago, USA, Thomas Habinek, University of Southern California, USA and Giulia Sissa, University of California Los Angeles, USA
1. Knowledge, Thomas Habinek
2. The Human Self, Giulia Sissa
3. Ethics and Social Relations, James Ker
4. Politics and Economies, Clifford Ando
5. Nature, G.E.R. Lloyd
6. Religion and the Divine, Zsuzsanna Várhelyi
7. Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, Sean Gurd
8. The Arts, Ruth Webb
9. History, Lucas Herchenroeder and Clifford Ando
Volume 2: A Cultural History of Ideas in the Medieval Age
Edited by Dallas G. Denery II, Bowdoin College, USA
1. Knowledge, Amanda Power
2. The Human Self, Mary Franklin-Brown
3. Ethics and Social Relations, Eileen C. Sweeney
4. Politics and Economies, Cary J. Nederman & Karen Bollermann
5. Nature, Kellie Robertson
6. Religion and the Divine, Claire M. Waters
7. Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, Wesley Chihyung Yu
8. The Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart
9. History, Matthew Kempshall
Volume 3: A Cultural History of Ideas in the Renaissance
Edited by Jill Kraye, University of London and Warburg Institute, UK
1. Knowledge, Paul Nelles
2. The Human Self, Guido Giglioni
3. Ethics and Social Relations, Matthias Roick
4. Politics and Economies, Erik De Bom
5. Nature, Craig Martin
6. Religion and the Divine, Barbara Pitkin
7. Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, Anthony Ossa-Richardson
8. The Arts, Susanna Berger
9. History, William Stenhouse
Volume 4: A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Jack R. Censer, George Mason University, USA
1. Knowledge, Chad Wellmon
2. The Human Self, Howard G. Brown
3. Ethics and Social Relations, Sarah Maza
4. Politics and Economies, Gary Kates
5. Nature, Brian W. Ogilvie
6. Religion and the Divine, Jonathan Sheehan
7. Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, Christy Pichichero
8. The Arts, Douglas Fordham
9. History, Caroline Winterer
Volume 5: A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Empire
Edited by James H. Johnson, Boston University, USA
1. Knowledge, Jan Goldstein
2. The Human Self, Jerrold Seigel
3. Ethics and Social Relations, Krishan Kumar
4. Politics and Economies, Brian Vick
5. Nature, Frederick Gregory
6. Religion and the Divine, Thomas Kselman
7. Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, Patrick McGuinness
8. The Arts, Julian Johnson
9. History, Donald R. Kelley and Bonnie G. Smith
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Ideas in the Modern Age
Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University, USA
1. Knowledge, Knox Peden
2. The Human Self, Edward Baring
3. Ethics and Social Relations, Sandrine Sanos and Roxanne Panchasi
4. Politics and Economies, Angus Burgin
5. Nature, Jedediah Purdy
6. Religion and the Divine, Sarah Shortall
7. Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, Christopher Nealon
8. The Arts, Lisa Florman
9. History, Nasser Zakariya
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
PRAISE FOR THE SERIES
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion
“Intriguing, surprising, and thought-provoking essays covering many cultural layers of dress history.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
“A comprehensive treatise that belongs in every academic library concerned with a form of literature that has had broad appeal for centuries and continues to do so.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Hair
“A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair.”
Times Literary Supplement
A Cultural History of Law
“These introductions should be of great use to scholars from across the periods.”
Law & Literature
A Cultural History of Peace
“The set is a good introduction to the study of peace and encourages looking at world history in a new way.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Theatre
“All six volumes are aesthetically attractive, with well-chosen cover illustrations in color and numerous halftones throughout. Page layouts with wide margins, good paper, subtitles, generous bibliographies, notes, and index all add to the appeal.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Tragedy
“A highly contemporary work, alert to politics, social theory and sexuality.”
London Review of Books
A Cultural History of Western Empires
“Students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here.”
CHOICE
A Cultural History of Work
“[Programs] such as economics, American and world history, women’s studies, and art history will benefit from the information herein.”
American Reference Books Annual
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of A Revolution in Language: The Politics of Signs in Eighteenth-Century France (2001); Common Sense: A Political History (2011), which won the Mark Lynton History Prize and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize; and Democracy and Truth: A Short History (2019).
Peter T. Struck is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts (2004); and Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Antiquity (2016). Both won the Goodwin Award for best book in Classical Studies. He is co-editor, with Rita Copeland, of The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (2010).