The State Bibles: The Anglo-Dutch Politics of the King James Version and the Statenvertaling, by Esther van Raamsdonk, published by the British Academy, is the first extended comparative study of two key bible translations of the early modern period – the King James Version (1611) and the Dutch Statenvertaling (1637).
Writing to win the prize: prize contests in 18th-century Europe
Essay competitions in the long eighteenth century, edited by Avi Lifschitz and Martin Urmann, recently published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Series.This book is the first to provide a preliminary, and necessarily incomplete, overview of this phenomenon across national and linguistic borders, institutional settings and media outlets. In this blog post, Avi Lifschitz and Martin Urmann explore how these essay competitions paved the way for one of the pillars of modern academia, the blind peer review, alongside the issues of the practice, which on the surface seemed egalitarian.
The Invention of Frenchness
This year, the Bayeux Tapestry is being displayed in the UK for the first time after 1,000 years. Here, Anne-Hélène Miller, discusses this significant moment and her new book, The Invention of Frenchness. Scene 51 of the Bayeux Tapestry, from the Bayeux Museum. Credit: https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/decouvrir-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/explorer-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux-en-ligne The year 2026 marks the “return” of the Bayeux Tapestry … Continue reading
Translating Peter the Sicilian
In this blog post, Carl Dixon, author and translator of the latest title in the Translated Texts for Byzantinists series, discusses the Paulicians of the Byzantine Empire and the controversies of Peter the Sicilian's writings on them. The Paulicians are one of the more unusual heresies of the Middle Ages. Unlike many of their ilk, … Continue reading
Remembering Through Poetry: Voices from the Concentration Camps
In this blog post, Belle Marie Joseph reflects on remarkable poems written secretly in Nazi concentration camps, and explains how years of research into these writings shaped her latest book 'Trauma and Meaning in French Concentration Camp Poetry (1943-1945)'.
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