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to be read (maybe)

This is a list of books I might like to read. Then again, I might not like to read them. In any case, they are books I thought at one time I might be interested in reading and considered it worthwhile to try to remember. I’m not at all sure that this will be particularly up-to-date when you look at it, but I will try to keep it current (see the revision date below).

Mediterranean

• Laonikos Chalkokondyles. The Histories. 2 vols. ed. & trans. Anthony Kaldellis. Cambridge, MA: Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard UP, 2014.
• S. C. Humphreys. Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis. 2 vols. Oxford: OUP, 2019.
• Judith Herrin. Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2020.
• Artemis Leontis. Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2019.
• Rudi Paul Lindner. Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia. Bloomington, IN: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1983: Read February 2021 [38]
• Alexander Mikaberidze The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History. Oxford: OUP, 2020.
• Laura Swift. Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: OUP, 2019.

Microcosmographia Academica

• Ann M. Blair. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2010.
• Maryam Fanni. The Natural Enemies of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typography. Occasional Papers, 2020: Read May 2021 [91].
• Alexandra Gillespie and Deidre Lynch, eds. The Unfinished Book. Oxford: OUP, 2021.
• Anthony Grafton. Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2020.
• Vivian Green, ed. Love in a Cool Climate: The Letters of Mark Pattison and Meta Bradley, 1879–1884. Oxford: OUP, 1986.
• H. S. Jones. Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don. Cambridge, UK: CUP, 2007.
• Christina Lupton. Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2018.
• Anahid Nersessian. The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
• Mark Pattison. Isaac Casaubon: 1559–1614. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892.
• Mark Pattison. Memoirs. London: Macmillan, 1885: Read January 2021 [5].
• Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2019.
• Helen Smith. Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England. Oxford: OUP, 2012.
• Valerie Wayne. Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Ritual / Occult

• Judith Butler. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso, 2004: Read March 2021 [67].
• Melissa Dowling. Clemency and Cruelty in the Roman World. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2005.
• László F. Földényi. The Glance of the Medusa: The Physiognomy of Mysticism. trans. Jozefina Komporaly. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2020.
• Chris Goto-Jones. Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, UK: CUP, 2016.
• Peter Kingsley. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford: OUP, 1995.
• Fred Naiden. Supplication. Oxford: OUP, 2006.
• Lawrence M. Principe. The Secrets of Alchemy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
• Courtenay Raia. The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siècle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
• Valerio Valeri. Kingship and Sacrifices: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
• Lindsay Watson. Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Russia / Central Asia / Persia

• Vladimir Arsenyev. Across the Ussuri Kray : travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains. trans. Jonathan C. Slaght. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2016 (1921).
• Bruno De Nicola. Women in Mongol Iran: The Khātūns, 1206–1335. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018: April 2021 [78].
• Vartan Gregorian. The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2013.
• Patricia Herlihy. Odessa: A History 1794–1914. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1991.
• Laleh Khalili. Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. London: Verso, 2020.
• Michael Khodarkovsky. Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads: 1660–1771. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1992.
• Tim Mackintosh-Smith. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2019.

Social History (Europe)

• Katherine Dauge-Roth. Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France. New York: Routledge, 2019.
• Wendy Doniger. The Ring of Truth and Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry. Oxford: OUP, 2017.
• Jon Elster. France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2020.
• Anthony Fletcher. Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500–1800. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1995.
• Felicity Heal & Clive Holmes. The Gentry in England and Wales 1500 – 1700. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1994.
• C.L.R. James. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. New York: Vintage 1967 (1938).
• Claire Jarvis. Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2016.
• Adam Smyth. Autobiography in Early Modern England. Cambridge: CUP, 2010.
• Lawrence Stone. The family, sex and marriage in England, 1500–1800. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.
• Raoul Vaneigem. The Revolution of Everyday Life.