The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press
Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition
1st Edition
By Ulinka Rublack
December 20, 2025
During the Renaissance, clothing became more and more elaborately decorated and expensive. It often emphasised the privilege of the male elite. Yet clothing could also subvert or reshape conventional cultural norms. Ulinka Rublack argues that cloaks and gowns gained in importance during this period...
Blood Libels, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives
1st Edition
By Magda Teter
April 22, 2025
As a minority group for most of their history, Jews were often marginalized and persecuted. Traces of their lives can be found in the archives of the dominant societies, but only as they intersected with the concerns of those in power. Just as Natalie Zemon Davis, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Carlo ...
Secularism and Its Ambiguities: Four Case Studies
1st Edition
By Carlo Ginzburg
September 25, 2023
In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history. This book relives the experience that participants in the Natalie Zemon Davis Lecture Series at the Budapest campus ...
A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
1st Edition
By Leslie Peirce
June 30, 2021
Without the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searches for the voices of the unfree, drawing on archives, histories written at the time, and legal texts...
Writing Cities: Exploring Early Modern Urban Discourse
1st Edition
By James S. Amelang
December 15, 2019
Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself. But ...
In the Name of History
1st Edition
By Joan Wallach Scott
December 10, 2019
In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to act in its name—in the name of history. Scott investigates three different instances in which repudiation of the past was conceived as a way to a better future: the...
Hybrid Renaissance: Culture, Language, Architecture
1st Edition
By Peter Burke
May 15, 2016
Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are hybridization and Renaissance. Roughly speaking, hybridity refers to something new that ...
Arguing it Out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
1st Edition
By Averil Cameron
January 01, 2016
The long twelfth century, from the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081, to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, is a period recognized as fostering the most brilliant cultural development in Byzantine history, especially in its literary production. It was a time...
Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police
1st Edition
By Katherine Verdery
January 10, 2014
Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were ...
Men at the Center: Redemptive Governance under Louis IX
1st Edition
By William Chester Jordan
September 10, 2012
Taking Professor Natalie Zemon Davis’ fascinating biographical studies of three Women on the Margins in the seventeenth century as an inspiration, the author of this book offers three portraits of men who were at the very center of governance in thirteenth-century France, men who strove ...
Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500-1960: Visions, Religious Images and Photographs
1st Edition
By William A. Christian Jr.
February 20, 2012
This study addresses the relation of people to divine beings in contemporary and historical communities, as exemplified in three strands. One is a long tradition of visions of mysterious wayfarers in rural Spain who bring otherworldly news and help, including recent examples. Another treats the ...
Emotions in History - Lost and Found
1st Edition
By Ute Frevert
September 15, 2011
Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything neuro. On the other hand, emotions have become an object of constant individual and social manipulation since emotional intelligence emerged as a...