The issue brings together an exceptionally rich collection of papers.
Hilary Gatti examines the divisions of knowledge in the European Renaissance and the earliest distinction between “the sciences” and “the humanities.”
Teddy Delwiche sheds light on the largely untold yet deeply compelling Indigenous history of classical learning in early America.
Ayaz Asadov highlights key aspects of late seventeenth-century Ottoman debates on what it meant to be a scholar, drawing on four major educational texts from the period.
Katherine Arens examines two central figures in the formation of formalist art history as a modern discipline, Riegl and Wölfflin.
Edgar Lejeune investigates how the datafication of historical sources has reshaped the historian’s craft, offering a case study in the history of digital history.
And Gregory Jones-Katz analyzes the concept of “theory” in Diacritics and Critical Inquiry, journals that played a pivotal role in shaping what came to be known as “Continental philosophy.”
The issue concludes with reviews of books by Ada Palmer, Andrew Hui, Valeria López Fadul and Felix Schlichter.
For the full issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/2025/10/2. Enjoy!