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Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros received the J. Worth Estes Prize, awarded at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, for her recently published chapter, “Chocolate in China: Interweaving Cultural Histories of an Imperfectly Connected World.” The essay appeared in Translation at Work: Chinese Medicine at the First Global Age, edited by Harold […]

Proposals are now welcomed for a conference hosted at the National Library of Latvia from October 8-10, 2020 on the theme of  “Sacred Books, Looted Books: Formation, Transfiguration and Replacement of the Northern European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c.1500-c.1650) and their Afterlife.”   The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2019.   The full

A new history of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit missions in North America is now available in Bronwen McShea’s Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France. The book is part of the “France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series” at University of Nebraska Press.   According to the publisher, McShea offers “candid portraits” of some

Harvard University Press has published The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs by Emma Anderson (University of Ottawa), on the 1930 canonization of eight Jesuit missionaries who died in the 1640s, becoming North America’s first Catholic saints. Anderson, according to the publisher, explores “how Jesuit missionaries perceived their terrifying final hours, the work also seeks

On October 20, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) hosts a seminar with Anthony E. Clarke, of Whitworth University. The title of Clarke’s presentation is “The Theater of Canonization: The Making of Jesuit Saints in Late Imperial China.” The hybrid event is free and open to the public.   Clarke will consider how the