Suzanne Conklin Akbari, widely recognized for her intellectual
range and interdisciplinary accomplishments in the field of
Medieval Studies, will join the Faculty of the School of Historical
Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, effective...
Many of the images we associate with the plague actually depict
leprosy or smallpox. In fact, there are very few images of the
Black Death from the time of the scourge.
Monica H. Green, former Member in
the School of Historical Studies, is among the...
Jacob Heilbrunn of TheNational Interest
reviews Ernst
Kantorowicz: A Life (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2017) by Robert E.
Lerner, former Member in the School of Historical Studies,
writing "in this, the first full-length biography of...
In 1927, entirely unknown and at the absurdly young age of
thirty-one, Ernst
Kantorowicz, Professor (1951–63) in the School of Historical
Studies, had stunned the academic world when he published the first
biography ever written of a man loved and...
Last week, Columba Stewart, George William Cottrell, Jr. Member
in the School of Historical Studies, Executive Director of the Hill
Museum and Manuscript Library, and Professor of Theology at Saint
John's Abbey and University in Collegeville...
In Ernst
Kantorowicz: A Life, the distinguished medieval historian
Robert E. Lerner, Member in
the School of Historical Studies (1988–1989), presents a richly
illuminating study of the German-Jewish scholar and Professor in
the School of Historical...