Archiv für Januar 2014

Issue 6 | Focus – An Unusual Traveler: Ida Pfeiffer’s Visit to the Holy Land in 1842

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In 1842 the middle-aged Austrian Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) set out for the Holy Land. To counter protests from her family, horrified by her plan to travel alone, Pfeiffer, who became a well-respected travel writer, disguised this journey as a …

Issue 6 | Focus – Travels of Russians to the Holy Land in the 19th Century

Abstract 
This article focuses on three main aspects: the presence of the Holy Land in the Russian literature of pilgrimage, the creation in Palestine of Russian institutions, and the representations of the Holy Land in Russian architecture. By d…

Reviewed Work(s): Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650 by Alan Durston

Review by: Noble David Cook

The American Historical Review, Volume 113, Issue 5, Page 1588-1589, December 2008.

Reviewed Work(s): Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782 by Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington

Review by: Cynthia Radding

The American Historical Review, Volume 113, Issue 5, Page 1589-1590, December 2008.

Reviewed Work(s): The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion after the Black Death by Katherine L. French

Review by: Christine Peters

The American Historical Review, Volume 113, Issue 5, Page 1591-1592, December 2008.

Reviewed Work(s): Death in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards

Review by: Anthony Corbeill

The American Historical Review, Volume 113, Issue 5, Page 1590-1591, December 2008.

Reviewed Work(s): Graphic History: The „Wars, Massacres and Troubles“ of Tortorel and Perrissin by Philip Benedict

Review by: Andrew Pettegree

The American Historical Review, Volume 113, Issue 5, Page 1592-1593, December 2008.

Reviewed Work(s): Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire by Bruce T. Moran

Review by: Lisa T. Sarasohn

The American Historical Review, Volume 113, Issue 5, Page 1593-1594, December 2008.

Reviewed Work(s): Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism’s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe by Walter L. Adamson

Review by: Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi

The American Historical Review, Volume 113, Issue 5, Page 1594-1595, December 2008.

Reviewed Work(s): Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England by William H. Sherman

Review by: Alexandra Halasz

The American Historical Review, Volume 113, Issue 5, Page 1595-1596, December 2008.