Short news items relevant to the Institute and current or past fellows including award announcements, calls for papers, new fellowship offerings, new publications, and changes at the IRH.
This text presents the third volume of "The History of France" by La Popelinière, published in 1581, which focuses on the crucial years of 1561 and 1562 that saw the outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
This article analyzes the transformation of the political position of the Ottoman Armenian community by focusing on the community’s reactions vis-à-vis the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey.
This book reveals the impact of vocalists and composers upon the poetic culture of early modern England by studying the media through which--and by whom--its songs were made.
The book is a study of Palm Sunday processions and related royal entries as both spectacular instances of processional theater and highly charged interpretations of the biblical narrative to which they claim allegiance.
Former IRH UW System Fellow E. Nicole Meyer has edited the volume Rethinking the French Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French and Francophone Women, now available from Routledge.
Former IRH Solmsen Fellow Damián Fernández recently published his book Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E. through UPenn Press. Read more here.
Former UW System Fellow Luke Whitmore‘s book, Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century, has just been published and is available for purchase or as a free and globally available e-copy. Read more at the University of California Press.
Former A.W. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellow Erin Lambert has published her first book, Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe with Oxford University Press.
Former IRH Solmsen Fellow Sara Trevisan has edited the collection Mythical Ancestry in World Cultures, 1400-1800, now available via Brepols Publishers.
Former Mellon Fellow Anthony W. Fontes‘s book, Mortal Doubt: Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City, is now available through the University of California Press. Read more about the book here.