This six-volume series has just been published by Bloomsbury and I am now thinking about how I might incorporate some of it into my teaching next year. As you’ll see from the publisher’s website, the idea here is that all six volumes have the same eight thematically titled chapters: Society, Philosophies, Politics, Exchange, Education, Popular Culture, Performance, and Technologies. The volumes themselves are chronological, with the ‘Middle Ages’ volume that I co-edited with Helen Deeming being no.2, since there is a volume on Antiquity. All the editors met at the Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge MA in the summer of 2018 to decide the chapter themes and discuss the plans for the book, which was really nice.
It’s a bit pricey but there are some discount options via QR codes that the publishers have offered and which I give here.
Elizabeth Eva Leach 