Month: November 2022
Helen's book The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas has recently been featured by boarding-school syndrome expert and therapist Piers Cross on his podcast 'An Evolving Man'. You can watch the podcast on Youtube here.Read more...
In 2022, three of Helen's book reviews were published in History. The Journal of the Historical Association, the Journal of Hellenic Studies and Germania: Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts.
Review of 'Feeling and Classical Philology' by Constanze GüthenkeReview of Constanze Güthenke, Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), Journal of Hellenic Studies 142, November 2022, pp. 461-2.
What are the implications of ‘the erotics of pedagogy’ in a post-Weinstein world? Constanze Güthenke’s new monograph does not explicitly answer this question – but it does contribute to an ongoing disciplinary debate about the (potentially toxic) discourse of scholarly passion which has long and silently underpinned the ideal of Altertumswissenschaft.Read more...
Review of 'Die Altertumswissenschaften an der Universität Frankfurt 1914-1950'Review of Roland Färber and Fabian Link (eds), Die Altertumswissenschaften an der Universität Frankfurt 1914-1950, (Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2019), Germania: Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 100, 2022, pp. 455-6.
Roland Färber and Fabian Link’s edited collection of essays on the history of classical studies and Altertumswissenschaft at the University of Frankfurt during the first half of the 20th century is a highly unusual volume.