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Hunted, or Charpentier’s Mythic Appropriations
David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk) “I am he who, born in another age, was known during the last century.” So begins a despairing Marc-Antoine Charpentier in his Epitaphium Carpentarii, or musical epitaph. For much of his life, he believed that he was little more than a glorified chorister for the Duchesse de Guise, despite his training in…
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Thomas Maidment – Historian Highlight
Thomas Maidment, interviewed by Jake Bransgrove Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. For our latest instalment, we sat down with Thomas Maidment, a second-year PhD candidate at Selwyn College, to talk about his research on visions of a European union in…
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From the Back Catalogue: A Few Posts to Help Navigate Uncertain Times
In this dreariest and most unsettled of Novembers, we’ve riffled through our back catalogue to see how DHP contributors might shine a light on recent developments in world politics. This did not disappoint. We bring you five voices from the not-so-distant past that tackle themes thrown up by the election in the United States last…
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Historian Highlight: Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023)
by Chris Campbell Running to a mere 127 pages, The Return of Martin Guerre was perhaps never intended to be a career-defining book.[1] For its author, the historian Natalie Zemon Davis, it was less a labour of profound historical scholarship than a personal work of unfinished business. Nevertheless, it bears close investigation as it was…
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An Elephant and a Drunk Priest – Itinerant Entertainment in the Streets of an Eighteenth-Century Port City
by Tiéphaine Thomason The plywood tables and plastic chairs of the reading room in the municipal archives of Nantes have the feel of a secondary school classroom. Located at 1 rue d’Enfer (‘1 hell street’), the archive nonetheless boasts a handful of fantastic archivists and colourful police records. These records show a persistent concern with…
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