Professor Emeritus William J. Courtenay has published a new book on religious life at the medieval University of Paris. The book is titled Rituals for the Dead: Religion and Community in the Medieval University of Paris (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018). According to John Van Engen, Andrew V. Tackes Professor Emeritus of Medieval History …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s new book, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History, has just been released this week by Oxford University Press. The book examines the history of American thought from the pre-contact period to the present day by delving into ideas, thinkers, and intellectual movements. “Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, …
Elizabeth Schmidt (Ph.D. 1987), has published a new book, Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (Ohio University Press, 2018), which offers a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. Although conflicts in contemporary Africa have emerged …
January 2017 Assistant Professor Pablo F. Gómez’s forthcoming book, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, will come out in April from University of North Carolina Press. As described by the publisher, “Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body …
The Parallel Press at the UW–Madison Libraries has published a collection of essays to honor the long and distinguished career of the noted UW–Madison historian of fascism, and of contemporary Spain. The book Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne is co-edited by three former Payne students Brian Bunk, …