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Hace 3 días · As Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt—who edits the Norton Shakespeare and the Norton Anthology of English Literature—said in a 2012 interview, they “remind people that the humanities carry the experience, the life-forms of those who came before us.”
Hace 5 días · What surprises me more is the balance of Stephen Greenblatt's two points here: a willingness to be a Burckhardtian and then a claim for the importance of a doctrine learnt from Lucretius's work.
Hace 3 días · It was not a major moment that carried the weight of history: It was as light as a few sheets of paper. In Greenblatt’s view, it was the improbable act of saving a single 15th-century essay that ...
Hace 4 días · Elizabeth I’s death, four hundred years ago, ended the Tudor dynasty and brought the Stuart kings of Scotland to the English throne. The dynastic changeover inaugurated a new phase of the history of this island. Key words and concepts – inter alia, Britain, union, empire, Englishman, Scot – acquired new meaning and relevance, as James VI ...
Hace 4 días · Who were Adam and Eve, really? Over many centuries, the origin story has undergone countless transformations. The Pulitzer Prize-winner and Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt chooses five books that explore the history of Adam and Eve, and tells us why the world isn't ready to leave the narrative of Eden behind
Hace 4 días · La Revolución de Inglaterra de 1688-89 reunió todas las características de una revolución moderna: fue popular, divisiva, violenta e ideológicamente innovadora. Fue una revolución sobre la naturaleza del Estado, no una revolución contra el Estado.
Hace 1 día · Some of the big, monumental, military monuments leave me cold (this is just me—no judgment on anyone else’s response). They feel a bit too set apart from our lives (I wrote more about the intersection of memorial and everyday life here).But as I was watching coverage of the commemoration ceremony at the British Memorial in Normandy I noticed that—in the frame created by the monument ...
