Europe

The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam, George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies, was published May 25, 2021, by Princeton University Press:

“The Spectre of War looks at...

Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Bynum, Professor Emerita in the School of Historical Studies, has been published by Princeton University Press on September 29, 2020:

"Between the twelfth and the...

On the second Sunday after Trinity in 1724, the congregation at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig heard Johann Sebastian Bach’s new cantata that began with the words Ach Gott. Bach set the word Gott to the most dissonant triad known at the time: the...