December 28, 2020
by standrewshistory
Staff News
The Goethe Institute has awarded Frank Lorenz Müller a €4,500 grant to support the English translation of his book Die Thronfolger. Macht und Zukunft der Monarchie im 19. Jahrhundert (Munich, 2019). His book is scheduled for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
On 18th November Aileen Fyfe gave her inaugural lecture, ‘Why do academics publish (the way that they do)?‘
News about the Donald Bullough Fellowship in Medieval History: due to circumstances brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, our Bullough Fellow for 2020-21, Sarah Hamilton (Exeter), will now take up her fellowship during the academic year 2021-22. As a result, the next call for applications to the Bullough Fellowship will be in Autumn 2021, for fellowships to be held in the academic year 2022-23.
Staff Activity
On 22 July, Raluca Roman gave a talk entitled ‘Traces of the past, visions of the future: the historical shaping of Roma mobilisation and the importance of context’ at the 2020 conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.
On 23 July, Justine Firnhaber-Baker gave the talk ‘Teaching Medieval Revolts at a Time of Modern Uprising’ to Haskins Society Roundtable on Teaching Medieval History in 2020.
On 4th September Claudia Kreklau gave a kenote presentation at the virtual St Andrews conference Devouring Men: Food, Masculinity and Power, entitled ‘Otto von Bismarck’s Devouring Masculinity: Identity Shortcomings and Culinary Compensation of a Political Titan, 1815-1898’. On 24th October Dr Kreklau also spoke at Emory University’s virtual homecoming on ‘A Taste of Emory from Around the World’.
On 8th November Milinda Banerjee gave the talk ‘Political Thought in Colonial Bengal: An Agenda for Intellectual History’, in a Webinar on ‘History of Modern Bengal’, organized by Subhas Chandra Bose Centenary College, Murshidabad (India).
On 13th November Rory Cox presented the paper ‘Ideas of Just War in Ancient Hittite and Israelite Sources’ at Casus Belli, Guerre Giuste: Indagini Sulla Necessità di un Casus Belli, University of Bologna.
On 14th November Chandrika Kaul was a participant and discussant in the television documentary ‘Lord Mountbatten: Hero or Villain?‘, Channel 5.
Publications
Banerjee, Milinda. ‘How “dynasty” became a modern global concept: Intellectual histories of sovereignty and property’, Global Intellectual History (2020).
— and Ilya Afanasyev. ‘The modern invention of “dynasty”: An introduction’, Global Intellectual History (2020).
Bates, C. Richard, Martin R. Bates, Barbara Crawford, Alexandra Sanmark and John Whittaker. ‘The Norse Waterways of West Mainland Orkney, Scotland’, Journal of Wetland Archaeology (2020).
Blakeway, Amy. ‘Religious Reform, the House of Guise and the Council of Fontainebleau: The French Memorial Service for Marie de Guise, August 1560’, Etudes Epistémè 37 (2020).
Eves, William. ‘Collusive Litigation in the Early Years of the English Common Law: The Use of Mort d’Ancestor for Conveyancing Purposes c. 1198-1230’, Journal of Legal History 31 (2020).
Ferris, Kate and Stella Moss, eds. ‘Alcohol Production and Consumption in Contemporary Europe: Identity, Practice, and Power Through Wine’ Contemporary European History 29:4, special issue (2020), pp. 373-379.
Firnhaber-Baker, Justine. ‘The Social Constituency of the Jacquerie Revolt of 1358’, Speculum, 95, no. 3 (2020): 689-715.
—. ‘Two Kinds of Freedom: Language and Practice in Late Medieval Rural Revolts’, Edad Media. Revista de Historia 21, special issue on freedom (2020), pp. 113-152.
Fischer, Conan. ‘Germany, Versailles, and the Limits of Nationhood’, in Aspects of British Policy and the Treatment of Versailles. Of War and Peace, edited by B.J.C. McKercher, Erik Goldstein, pp. 205-227. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Fyfe, Aileen. ‘The production, circulation, consumption and ownership of scientific knowledge: historical perspectives’, CREATe Working Paper (2020).
—. ‘The Royal Society and the Noncommercial Circulation of Knowledge’, in Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Open Access, edited by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, pp. 147-160. The MIT Press, 2020.
Gielas, Anna. ‘Turning tradition into an instrument of research: The editorship of William Nicholson (1735-1815)’, Centaurus 62:1 (2020).
Greenwood, Tim. ‘Social Change in Eleventh-Century Armenia: the evidence from Tarōn’, in Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium, edited by J.D. Howard-Johnston, pp. 196-219. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Hillenbrand, Carole. ‘Al-Ghazali and Sufism’, in The Routledge Handbook of Sufism, edited by Lloyd Ridgeon, pp. 63-75. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
—. ‘The sultan, the Kaiser, the colonel and the purloined wreath’, in The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villians: Engaging the Crusades, Volume Four, edited by Mike Horswell and Kristin Skottki, pp. 112-124. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.
—. ‘What is special about Seljuq history?’, in Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs, edited by Sheila Canby, Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi, pp. 6-16. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Jenkins, Bill. ‘Race before Darwin: Variation, adaptation and the natural history of man in post-Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1790-1835’, The British Journal for the History of Science (2020).
Kamusella, Tomasz. ‘Bullgaria bllokoi Maqedoninë e Veriut’. Kosova.info. 30 November 2020.
—. ‘A Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog? Bulgaria, the EU and North Macedonia’. Democratization Policy Council. 6 December 2020.
—. ‘Çfarë shpreh dhe “fsheh” vetoja e Bullgarisë ndaj Maqedonisë së Veriut?’. Gazeta Telegraf. 26 November 2020.
—. ‘Çfarë synon Bullgaria, me bllokimin e Maqedonisë së Veriut ?!’. Pro Integra. 27 November 2020.
—. ‘Judeo-Christian Europe and Language Politics’, Wachtryz.eu. 13 October 2020.
—. ‘Liquidating a Language’, Wachtyrz.eu, 27 June 2020.
—. ‘Multicultural Opole? “Multilingualism” in an ethnolinguistic nation-state’, New Eastern Europe, 24 July 2020.
—. ‘Vetoja e Bullgarisë ndaj Maqedonisë së Veriut, një precedent i rrezikshëm’. Bota Sot. 27 November 2020.
—. ‘Yiddish, or Jewish German? The Holocaust, the Goethe-Institut and Germany’s Neglected Obligation to Peace and the Common Cultural Heritage’. Wachtryz.eu. 21 October 2020.
Kastritsis, Dimitri. ‘Tales of Viziers and Wine: Interpreting Early Ottoman Narratives of State Centralization’, in Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia: Eurasian Parallels, Connections and Divergences, edited by Jo Van Steenbergen, 224-254. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
MacLean, Simon. ‘The Edict of Pîtres, Carolingian Defence against the Vikings, and the Origins of the Medieval Castle’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 30 (2020).
Marinov, Aleksander. ‘Images of Roma through the Language of Bulgarian State Archives’, Social Inclusion 8:2 (2020).
Marushiakova-Popova, Elena and Veselin Popov. ‘Beginning of Roma Literature: The Case of Alexander Germano’, Romani Studies 30:2 (2020), pp. 135-162.
Murdoch, Steve and Kathrin Margarete Gertrud Zickermann. ‘Martha Stuart (1590-1670)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 9 July 2020.
Murdoch, Steve. ‘Scottish Calvinists and Swedish Diplomacy, 1593-1632: the case of Sir James Spens of Wormiston’. In Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe, edited by Roberta Anderson and Charlotte Backerra. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Nott, James. Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960. Oxford: OUP, 2020.
Palmer, James. ‘Apocalyptic Insiders? Apocalypse and Heresy in Carolingian-Iberian Relations’, in Cultures of Eschatology 1: Authority and Empire in Medieval Christian, Islam, and Buddhist Communities, edited by Veronika Wieser and Vincent Eltschinger, pp. 337-356. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020.
Parr, Rosalind. ‘Solving World Problems: the Indian women’s movement, global governance, and “the crisis of empire”, 1933-46’, Journal of Global History 1:19 (2020).
Peacock, Andrew. ‘Remembering Turkish Origins in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Deccan: The Qaraqoyunlu Past in the Persia Chronicles of the Qutbshahi Dynasty’, in Turkish History and Culture in India: Identity, Art and Transregional Connections, edited by Andrew Peacock and Richard Piran McClary, 152-199. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
Randjbar-Daemi, Siavush. ‘The Tudeh Party of Iran and the peasant question, 1941-53’, Middle Eastern Studies (2020).
Roman, Raluca. ‘Between (mis)recognition and belonging. Finnish Roma, migrant Roma and social outreach’, in Mobilising for mobile Roma: Solidarity activism in Helsinki in the 2000s-2010s, edited by Aino Saarinen, Airi Markkanen, and Anca Enache. Helsinki: Trialogue Books, 2020.
Rose, Jacqueline. ‘Dissent and the State: Persecution and Toleration’, in The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, vol. 1, edited by John Coffey, pp. 313-33. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Stella, Attilio. ‘Bringing the feudal law back home: social practice and the law of fiefs in Italy and Provence (1100-1250)’, Journal of Medieval History 46:3 (2020), pp. 396-418.
Struck, Bernhard. ‘Did Prussia have an Atlantic history? The partitions of Poland-Lithuania, the French colonization of Guiana, and climates in the Caribbean, c. 1760s-1780s’, in Globalized Peripheries: Central Europe and the Atlantic World, 1680-1860, edited by Jutta Wimmler and Klaus Weber. Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2020.
Thakkar, Mark. ‘Duces caecorum: On Two Recent Translations of Wyclif’, Vivarium 58:4 (2020), pp. 357-383.
Whatmore, Richard and Katrin Redfern. ‘History tells us that ideology “purity spirals” rarely end well’, The Conversation, 1 July 2020.
White, Sarah. ‘The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in English Ecclesiastical Courts, c. 1193-1300’, Studies in Church History 56 (2020): 114-130.
Zahova, Sofiya. ‘“Improving Our Way of Life is Largely in Our Own Hands”: Inclusion According to the Romani Newspaper of Interwar Yugoslavia’, Social Inclusion 8:2 (2020), pp. 286-295.