by Jonas Borsch, author of “God’s Wrath over Antioch, 525–540 CE: Beginning of the End?” from the new special issue of Studies in Late Antiquity It has now been about four months since …
Read More >By Sarah-Neel Smith, author of Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey This post is designed as a classroom resource for teachers and students interested in modern Turkish art and …
Read More >A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the seventeenth-century memoir of Osman Agha of Timişoara—slave, adventurer, and diplomat—into English for the first time. The sweeping story of Osman’s life …
Read More >By Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles The past week marked historic recognition of injustice and suffering. In Minneapolis on April 20, a jury found …
Read More >By Christine Philliou, author of Turkey: A Past Against History Imagine living in a place where the political elite is deeply divided within itself. Contradictions between constitutionalism and empire are coming into …
Read More >This post is part of our #MESA2020 blog series. Learn more at our MESA virtual exhibit. We’re thrilled to announce Salih Can Açiksöz has won MESA’s 2020 Fatima Mernissi Book Award for …
Read More >excerpted from A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries by Henry Notaker This October we are celebrating National Cookbook Month by exploring the history of the cookbook genre. Check back …
Read More >This guest post is by Jon Pahl, Ph.D, the Peter Paul and Elizabeth Hagan Professor in the History of Christianity at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia I can’t speak to the …
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