THE MENAHEM STERN JERUSALEM LECTURES

Sponsored by the Historical Society of Israel and published for
Brandeis University Press by University Press of New England

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Prof. Yosef Kaplan, Senior Editor, professor emeritus, Department of the History of the Jewish People, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, former chairman of the Historical Society of Israel

Prof. Michael Heyd, professor emeritus, Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, former chairman of the Historical Society of Israel

Prof. Shulamit Shahar, professor emerita, Department of History, Tel-Aviv University

Richard J. Evans, Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History

Patrick J. Geary, Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages

G. W. Bowersock, Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Three Ways to Be Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World

Jürgen Kocka, Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History

Heinz Schilling, Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism

Brian Stock, Ethics through Literature: Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture

Fergus Millar, The Roman Republic in Political Thought

Peter Brown, Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire

Anthony D. Smith, The Nation in History: Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism

Carlo Ginzburg, History, Rhetoric, and Proof