Reviews

I regularly review trade and academic books, for mainstream publications and specialised journals. Here are a few (more or less) recent examples:

 

• Annette Kehnel, The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (2024). Reviewed in the TLS, October 18, 2024

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• James Hannam, The Globe: How the Earth Became Round (2023). Reviewed in BBC History Magazine, September 2003

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• Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm, Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life (2023). Reviewed in History Today, May 2023
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• Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac (2019). Reviewed in Speculum 97:1, 2022

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• Paul Sen, Einstein’s Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe (2021). Reviewed in History Today, June 2021
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• Patricia Fara, Life After Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career (2021). Reviewed in BBC History Magazine

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• C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe (2018). Reviewed in Speculum 95:2, 2020. ​​​​​​​