Apr 23, 2011
Pre-Modern Notes
- Michael Dirda for the Washington Post, 13 April, and J. E. Lendon, "Nature's Noblemen," Weekly Standard, 18 April review John Armstrong's In Search of Civilization: Remaking a Tarnished Idea.
- Liesl Schillinger, "Simon Schama Talks About Everything," Daily Beast, 16 April, reports on a day with the author of Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother. Phillip Lopate, "Simon Schama: The Essayist as Star Writer," NYT, 22 April, reviews the book.
- Steve Donoghue for The National, 8 April reviews John Aberth's Plagues in World History. It challenges William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples.
- "Dancing Mania," Frontier Psychiatrist, 17 April, features epidemics of it in medieval and early modern central Europe.
- Matthew Kaminski, "The Spanish Model," The Book, 20 April, reviews Stanley G. Payne's Spain: A Unique History.
- Eric A. Posner, "The Court of Literature," The Book, 14 April, and Garry Wills, "Shakespeare Subpeoned," NYT, 15 April, review Kenji Yoshino's A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Tell Us About Justice.
- Anthony Grafton, "About Time," Tablet, 14 April, reviews Elisheva Carlebach's Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe.