Archiv für Januar 2017

Vesalius’ Fabrica : A Report on the Worldwide Census of the 1543 and 1555 Editions

<span class=“paragraphSection“><div class=“boxTitle“>Summary</div>This article provides a listing of known copies of the first two folio editions of Andreas Vesalius‘ <span style=“font-style:italic;“>De humani corporis fabrica&l…

Taming Nuclear Power: The Accident near Harrisburg and the Change in West German and International Nuclear Policy in the 1970s and early 1980s

<span class=“paragraphSection“><div class=“boxTitle“>Abstract</div>In 2011 a broad majority in the German Federal Parliament voted to abandon nuclear energy. This article explores the origins of the change in attitude towards nuclear …

Beulah Bewley, My Life as a Woman and a Doctor

<span class=“paragraphSection“>BewleyBeulah, <span style=“font-style:italic;“>My Life as a Woman and a Doctor</span>, Bristol: Silverwood Books, 2016. Pp. 236. £15. ISBN 978 1 7813 2419 6.</span>

Call for Submissions

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A Microhistory of the Womb from the N-Town Mary Plays to Gorboduc

This essay examines representations of the womb across late medieval and early modern performance. The N-Town Mary plays and the Elizabethan tragedy Gorboduc are separated by less than a century but are rarely examined in light of one another. Using m…

Probing the Limits of Microhistory

This epilogue to the special issue of JMEMS, „Microhistory and the Historical Imagination: New Frontiers,“ comments on the essays, which trace the frontiers of microhistory. While they embrace the essence of microhistorical practice in their commitmen…

The Desert War of a Carolingian Monk

How small can microhistorians go? The article proposes the advantages of „particle history,“ the intense investigation of small, often isolated and dislocated fragments, and how they connect to the worlds to which they once belonged. To demonstrate th…

Crime and Testimony: Life Narratives, Pardon Letters, and Microhistory

Late medieval and early modern pardon letters are among the best sources of ordinary people’s voices in the premodern period. The stuff of social history, these legal documents allow us access to nonelite social actors and masculine spaces of sociabil…

The Macrohistory of Microhistory

In the classic microhistorical mode, this article begins with the tale of the author’s quirky, accidental entry into microhistory. It then frames his own practice in the social history of the 1980s, before moving to an apologia for microhistory not as…

New Books across the Disciplines

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