Just finished Henrika Tandefelt, Konsten att härska: Gustaf III inför sina undersåtar; a bit like Peter Burke’s The Fabrication of Louis XIV, it is a study of the use of rhetoric in political life. Good read. I like to, sometimes, read stuff outside the field I am working in. (Based on a PhD dissertation at Helsinki university, which is available online. For those who don’t read Swedish, there are pictures in an appendix (pdf).)
My to read list:
Robert Proctor & Londa Schiebinger eds., Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance.
Clearing up my backlog of TLS.
Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare.
Plus lots of papers and book chapters connected to what I am writing at the moment. Of course.
