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Politics and the Plague in Medieval Persia: A Non-Western Perspective of Pandemic History
SARA AMERI MAHABADI | What we witnessed during COVID is not entirely new. Blaming others, attempting to dismantle the status quo, or...
Mar 15, 2024


Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years
JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, the book
Jun 8, 2023


How Special Is Science?
PHILIP BALL | Science is special. Its central idea – collecting data about the real world, using it to formulate theories and hypotheses
Oct 22, 2021


Medieval Wisdom for Mental Health in COVID-19
JENNA PHILLIPS | In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del Garbo...
Dec 18, 2020


“Judaism” Here, There, but not Everywhere: Persian and Other Non-Western Perspectives
BY SIMCHA GROSS | The key insight of Daniel Boyarin’s provocative new book is that to better understand
Jul 5, 2019
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