Hot Off Penn Press: October’s New Books
11/04/2014
Yes, it's technically November, but that's just because there were so many new releases last month we couldn't fit in time to post about it! If you'd like to receive… READ MORE
Category: European & World History
Author Q&A: Elisheva Baumgarten, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz
10/23/2014
Elisheva Baumgarten is the author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance, which provides a social history of religious practice in context, particularly with regard… READ MORE
The letter is dead. Long live Facebook?
10/14/2014
Today we have a guest post from Lindsay O'Neill, author of The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World. In it, O'Neill explores the importance and impact of… READ MORE
Creative memory and the constructed past
10/07/2014
Today we have a guest post from Constance Brittain Bouchard, author of Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200. Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had… READ MORE
Tom Nichols on Bill O’Reilly (and Colbert)
10/01/2014
Bill O'Reilly, pundit on Fox News, believes that the terrorist threat posed by ISIS should be met with a hired mercenary army, rather than risking American lives. Penn author Tom… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: September’s New Books
09/30/2014
With the turn toward fall, the Press's presses have been printing overtime, with better than a baker's dozen of titles being released this month. The topics range widely, from the… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Miriam Jacobson, Barbarous Antiquity
09/25/2014
Today's Q&A is with Miriam Jacobson, author of Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England. In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Ann Marie Plane, Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England
09/23/2014
Today we have Ann Marie Plane, author of Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England: Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century. From angels to demonic specters, astonishing visions… READ MORE
The Neverendum Story: Scotland could vote in another referendum soon
09/19/2014
This is a guest post from Dr. Matt Qvortrup, author of Referendums and Ethnic Conflict, in response to yesterday's historic independence vote in Scotland. The Scots chose to stay a… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Martin Jacobs, Reorienting the East
09/16/2014
Next in our series of Fall 2014 Author Q&As is Martin Jacobs, whose book, Reorienting the East: Jewish Travelers to the Medieval Muslim World, explores the Islamic world as it… READ MORE
