Pathology and Visual Culture

The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpêtrière School

Natasha Ruiz-Gómez

“Pathology and Visual Culture is the first study to deeply engage with the range of visual productions of the Salpêtrière School. This welcome book brings much overdue attention to material hardly or not at all mentioned by the many scholars—art historians, visual culture specialists, and historians of science and medicine—who have concentrated on the painted and photographic representations of hysteria directed by Charcot.”—Allison Morehead, author of Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form

Enlightenment Anthropology

Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism

Carl Niekerk

“Niekerk reconstructs the emergent discipline of anthropology as a major feature of the European Enlightenment, emphasizing not only its scientific ambitions but also its political inspiration and intention: a ‘radical’ opposition to the enslavement of non-European populations and to the excesses of colonialism. He sketches a line from Buffon to Camper, Blumenbach, and Herder, adding original characterizations of the contributions of Raynal and de Pauw. This is a rich and rewarding study.”—John Zammito, author of The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling

Pearls for the Crown

Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion

Mónica Domínguez Torres

“Pearls for the Crown makes a significant contribution to current studies on the early modern pearl trade, nature, art, and race. It showcases how these marine gems came to embody imperial ideologies rooted in ancient Roman texts—and what textual sources and the display of pearls in artworks and rituals reveal about their worth.”—Laura Fernández-González, author of Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire

Illuminating the Vitae patrum

The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy

Denva Gallant

“Denva Gallant, in a masterful analysis of this manuscript’s unique imagery, convincingly argues for a renewed rise in the interest in the desert fathers in trecento Italy. Her study reveals ways that religious trends of the period encouraged laypeople to adopt some of the spiritual practices of monks, nuns, and even hermits, including penance, prayer, and imaginative contemplation of religious narratives.”—Holly Flora, Professor of Art History, Tulane University

Congratulations to Sarah Ifft Decker, whose book The Fruit of Her Hands won the La corónica Book Award!”

Nineteenth-Century French Studies says of Sharon Larson’s Resurrecting Jane de la Vaudère: “Just as other female authors have now passed into the canon of nineteenth-century French studies because of the work of pioneering scholars to reclaim them, so too does Larson lay down the foundations for a broader appreciation of La Vaudère in her study.”

Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture calls Marjorie Swann’s Environment, Society, and the Compleat Angler “well-researched and packed with valuable historical context.”

Journal of Religious History says that Gibbon’s Christianity by Hugh Liebert is “excellent. Its thesis is audacious, its prose is elegant, its argument is logical and easy to follow, its references are meticulous, and its use of primary sources is impressive.”

An interview with Brenden Jacob-Jenkins on Eugene O’Neill is free to access until July 5 in The Eugene O’Neill Review.

The new open access journal, Palestine/Israel Review, has published its first issue! Read it on the Scholarly Publishing Collective.

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research is free to access online until 2025!

We are very excited to announce a new startup journal for 2025: American Gothic Studies! Find more information here.

The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period

Ellie Bennett

The title “Queen of the Arabs” is applied in Neo-Assyrian texts to five women from the Arabian Peninsula. These women led armies, offered tribute, and held religious roles in their communities from 738 to approximately 651 BCE. This book discusses what the title meant to the women who carried it and to the Assyrians who wrote about them.

The Southern Wall of the Temple Mount and Its Corners

Past, Present and Future

Edited by Yuval Baruch, Ronny Reich, Moran Hagbi, and Joe Uziel

“The Temple Mount/Haram aš-Šarīf has fascinated scholars since the dawn of modern archaeology, and the pious for millennia before that. The studies assembled here document excavations and conservation at the southern and southwestern retaining walls of the Herodian Temple, with special care for all periods—from the Iron Age to Herod the Great to medieval Islam. This magnificent volume is a monument to decades of dedicated research, a resource for generations to come!”—Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University

The Flavors of Iraq

Impressions of My Vanished Homeland

Feurat Alani, Illustrated by Léonard Cohen

“A moving journey by a diasporic Iraqi journalist as he returns to discover his homeland and chronicle its people’s plight as they survive dictatorship, crushing economic sanctions, and a neocolonial war that leaves a legacy of death and destruction. A telegraphic account of Fallujah’s (and Iraq’s) wounds and the resilience of its people, told with wit and love.”—Sinan Antoon, author of The Corpse Washer

Escaping Wars and Waves

Encounters with Syrian Refugees

Olivier Kugler

“Artistically masterful. . . . Sketchbooks like Kugler’s make readers feel as if they are sitting beside the artist—watching the refugees climb onto the beach of the Greek island of Kos after crossing the Aegean from Turkey, or smelling the tea sold by a vendor in an Iraqi refugee camp.”—New York Review of Books