h i s t o r y o f h u m a n i t i e s
Rick Altman, University of Iowa, USA Carolyn Birdsall, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rüdiger Campe, Yale University, USA
Karine Chemla, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
H. Floris Cohen, Utrecht University, Netherlands David Cram, University of Oxford, UK Mary Ann Doane, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Sven Dupré, Utrecht University, Netherlands Boris Gasparov, Columbia University, USA Anthony Grafton, Princeton University, USA Kristine Haugen, California Institute of Technology, USA
Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town, South Africa
John Joseph, University of Edinburgh, UK Monica Juneja, University of Heidelberg, Germany Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa, Israel Markus Krajewski, Universität Basel, Switzerland Jill Kraye, University of London, UK
Jan Lazardzig, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fenrong Liu, Tsinghua University, China David Marshall, University of Pittsburgh, USA Glenn Most, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy Herman Paul, Leiden University, Netherlands
Irina Podgorny, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Stephen Read, University of St. Andrews, UK Alexander Rehding, Harvard University, USA Irène Rosier-Catach, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Khaled El-Rouayheb, Harvard University, USA Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame, USA Haun Saussy, University of Chicago, USA Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
Patrick Sériot, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Helen Small, University of Oxford, UK Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University, USA Ivo Smits, Leiden University, Netherlands Benjamin Steege, Columbia University, USA Paul Taylor, The Warburg Institute, UK Viktoria Tkaczyk, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
Johan Tollebeek, University of Leuven, Belgium James Turner, University of Notre Dame, USA Caroline van Eck, University of Cambridge, UK Miguel-John Versluys, Leiden University, Netherlands
Hilde De Weerdt, Leiden University, Netherlands Michael Witzel, Harvard University, USA Daniel Woolf, Queen’s University, Canada E D I TO R S
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University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Co n t e n t s
T H E M E : S O U N D S O F L A N G U AG E — L A N G U AG E S O F S O U N D
Introduction: Language, Sound, and the Humanities
Julia Kursell, Viktoria Tkaczyk, and Hansjakob Ziemer
| 1Words and Numbers: The Many Languages of Nineteenth-Century
Pitch Standardization
Fanny Gribenski
| 11Coming to Terms with Sound: Carl Stumpf’s Discourse
on Hearing Music and Language
Julia Kursell
| 35Sound in the Papers: Musical Hermeneutics in the Age of the Feuilleton
Hansjakob Ziemer
| 61Radio Voices and the Formation of Applied Research in the Humanities
Viktoria Tkaczyk
| 85Hearing the Word of God: The Language of Sound and the Preacher’s
Voice in Karl Barth’s Dialectical Theology
Karsten Lichau
| 111Intelligible Pitch: A Shared Topos in Mid-Twentieth-Century
Ethnomusicology and Anthropological Linguistics
Judith Kaplan
| 137HISTORY OF
H U M A N I T I E S
Spoken Words, Written Memories: Early Oral History and Elite Interviews
Anke te Heesen
| 163How Speech Lost Its Voice: The Informational Turn in US Free Speech Law
Jennifer Petersen
| 179F O R U M : T H E R I S E A N D D E C L I N E O F “ C O LO N I A L H U M A N I T I E S ”
Introduction: Colonial Humanities and Criticality
Daniela Merolla, Michiel Leezenberg, Victoria Sear,
and Mark Turin
| 199Internalized Orientalism or World Philology?
The Case of Modern Turkish Studies
Michiel Leezenberg
| 209Amazigh/Berber Literary and Historical Studies: Approaching Colonial
Humanities from the Perspective of Critical Humanities
Daniela Merolla
| 221Locating Criticality in the Lexicography of Historically
Marginalized Languages
Victoria Sear and Mark Turin
| 237Comment on the Forum “The Rise and Decline of ‘Colonial Humanities’ ”
Shamil Jeppie
| 261A R T I C L E S
Finding Truths among the “Lies”: Fact-Checking Herodotus’s
Egypt in the Long Eighteenth Century
Suzanne Marchand
| 269The Turner Drawings and a Keeper’s Diary: Preventive Conservation
in the National Gallery, London in the Second Half
of the Nineteenth Century
R E V I E W E S S AYS
Marsilio Ficino: Humanist, Magus, or Philosopher?
Denis J. J. Robichaud, Plato’s Persona: Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Humanism and Platonic Traditions
Michael J. B. Allen, Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico Susan Byrne, Ficino in Spain
Marieke van den Doel
| 315Machiavelli: Italian Historiography and Politics
Alberto Asor Rosa, Machiavelli e l’Italia: Resoconto di una disfattaMichele Ciliberto, Nicolo Machiavelli: Ragione e pazzia Carlo Ginzburg, Nondimanco: Machiavelli, Pascal
Daniele Cozzoli
| 327B O O k R E V I E W S
