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Modern Intellectual History publishes scholarship in intellectual and cultural history from 1650 onwards. MIH concerns itself primarily with apprehending the contextual origins and receptions of texts in order to recover their historical meanings. But we understand ‘texts’ in the broadest sense, so as to encompass multiple forms of intellectual and cultural expression. These include, but are not limited to, political thought, philosophy, religion, literature, both the social sciences and the natural sciences, music, architecture, and the visual arts.
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'Modern Intellectual History' Blogs
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Revising the history of early French social science
- 08 June 2023,
- Historians long thought the term science sociale was coined in 1789 by the revolutionary theorist Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès.
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Radical Democracy and/or Ordinary Anarchy?
- 06 June 2023,
- Journalist Colin Ward (1924-2010) believed anarchism was ordinary with its roots firmly in the small, everyday acts of improvised co-operation that made living...
History blog
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Before the World Wide Web, There Was the World Wide Silk Web
- 08 July 2026,
- In 1892, Vicente Sanjuán, a Spanish agricultural engineer, arrived in Padua on a government mission: to revive his country’s struggling silk industry.…...
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’: why a 3,000-year-old story still captivates us
- 08 July 2026,
- As Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' reaches cinemas, explore the scholarship behind one of history's most enduring and influential stories.
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Reconsidering the Renaissance: Elizabeth I and Classical Persia
- 07 July 2026,
- In the 1570s, Elizabeth I grappled with the question of whether to execute Mary, Queen of Scots. As she did so, she was urged to follow the compelling example...
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