#  Reviews 

 



#### ***Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe*** (2016)

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[H-France Forum 12, no. 1 (2017)](http://www.h-france.net/forum/h-franceforumvol12.html). Review essays by [Julie Claustre](http://www.h-france.net/forum/forumvol12/Claustre.pdf), [Noël Coulet](http://www.h-france.net/forum/forumvol12/Coulet.pdf), [Susan McDonough](http://www.h-france.net/forum/forumvol12/McDonough.pdf), and [Kathryn Reyerson](http://www.h-france.net/forum/forumvol12/Reyerson.pdf).

- [Response essay](http://www.h-france.net/forum/forumvol12/Smail.pdf) by Daniel Lord Smail.

Farmer, Sharon. ["Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe."](https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/23000/28859) *The Medieval Review* (7 December 2016).

Lange, Tyler. ["Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe."](https://academic.oup.com/jsh/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jsh/shw109) *Journal of Social History* (24 September 2016).

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#### ***Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present*** (2011)

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Amato, Joseph. ["Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present."](http://jsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/47/4/1101.full) *Journal of Social History* 47, no. 4 (Summer 2014): 1101-1103.  
  
Blundell, Richard. ["Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present."](http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_world_history/v023/23.4.blundell.html) *Journal of World History* 23, no. 4 (December 2012): 953-957.  
  
Clack, Timothy. [“Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present.”](/Blundell,%20Richard.%20%22Deep%20History:%20The%20Architecture%20of%20Past%20and%20Present.%22%20Journal%20of%20World%20History%2023,%20no.%204%20(December%202012):%20953-957.) *Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute* 18, no. 4 (December 2012): 888-889.

Cohen, Patricia. [“History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words.”](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/arts/deep-history-takes-humanity-back-to-its-origins.html?pagewanted=all) *New York Times* (September 27, 2011).

Fagan, Brian. [“Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present.”](http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history/v043/43.2.fagan.html) *Journal Of Interdisciplinary History* 43, no. 2 (October 2012): 295-296.  
  
Fromm, Harold. [“How We Became So Beautiful and Bright: Deep History and Evolutionary Anthropology.”](http://hudsonreview.com/2013/03/how-we-became-so-beautiful-and-bright-deep-history-and-evolutionary-anthropology-2/#.U4XlkSiGc7k) *Hudson Review* 65, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 19-35.  
  
Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton. “[A History of the Species?](http://www.historyandtheory.org/recent.html#oct13)” *History and Theory* 52, no. 3 (October 2013): 462-472.  
  
Laibman, David. [“Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present.”](http://www.scienceandsociety.com/contents_apr13.pdf) *Science & Society* 77, no. 2 (April 2013): 259-282.  
  
Lowenthal, David. [“Back and Forth.”](https://global-factiva-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/redir/default.aspx?P=sa&an=TLITE00020120518e85i0000y&cat=a&ep=ASE) *TLS* no. 5694 (May 18, 2012): 23.  
  
Paxton, Fredrick S. [“Deep History: The Architecture of Past And Present.”](http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=histfacpub) *American Historical Review* 118, no. 1 (2013): 151-152.  
  
Renfrew, Colin. [“Bridging the Millennia.”](http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/bridging-the-millennia) *American Scientist* 100, no. 1 (January 2012): 68-70.  
  
Robb, John. [“Imagining History.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665675) *Current Anthropology* 53, no. 3 (June 2012): 364-365.  
  
Spier, Fred. [“Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674248) *Journal of Modern History* 86, no. 1 (March 2014): 143-145.  
  
Wenke, Robert J. [“Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present.”](http://www.ipfw.edu/dotAsset/04054c54-0b80-44b1-b421-c85a4c12965f.pdf) *Clio* 42, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 254-258.

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#### ***On Deep History and the Brain*** (2008)

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 Casper, Stephen T. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2668893/) *Medical History* 53, no. 2 (April 2009): 318-319.  
  
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. [“The Climate of History: Four Theses.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/596640) *Critical Inquiry* 35, no. 2 (Winter 2009): 197-222.  
  
Cook, Michael. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jih/summary/v039/39.3.cook.html) *Journal of Interdisciplinary History* 39, no. 3 (Winter 2009): 399-400.  
  
Cooter, Roger. [“Neural Veils and the Will to Historical Critique: Why Historians of Science Need to Take the Neuro-Turn Seriously.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675556) Isis 105, no. 1 (March 2014): 145-154.  
  
Corfield, Penelope J. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/113/5/1477.extract) *American Historical Review* 113, no. 5 (December 2008): 1477-1478.  
  
Dibattista, Liborio. [“Daniel Lord Smail, *On Deep History and the Brain*.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/23334323) *History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences* 30, no. 1 (March 2008): 106-108.  
  
Duddy, Thomas. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10848770.2011.575613#.U4XvvyiGc7k) *European Legacy* 16, no. 3 (June 2011): 416-417.  
  
Dyck, Erika. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://cjhistory.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/cjhistory/index.php/cjhistory/article/view/10017) *Canadian Journal of History* 43, no. 2 (August 2008): 379-381.  
  
Falk, Dean. [“Delving into the Ancient Brain.”](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7166/full/450031a.html) *Nature* 450, no. 7166 (November 2007): 31-32.  
  
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. [“History Beyond History: New Adventurers on the Frontiers of Traditional Historiography: A Review Essay.”](http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=6&fid=3004936&jid=CSS&volumeId=51&issueId=01&aid=3004932&fulltextType=RV&fileId=S0010417509000097) *Comparative Studies in Society and History* 51, no. 1 (January 2009): 212-219.  
  
Fuller, Steve. [“Neuroscience, Neurohistory, and the History of Science: A Tale of Two Brain Images.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675552) *Isis* 105, no. 1 (March 2014): 100-109.  
  
Fuller, Steve. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](/On%20Deep%20History%20and%20the%20Brain.) *Interdisciplinary Science Reviews* 35, no. 1 (March 2010): 92-95.  
  
Ghazanfar, Asif A. [“Bridging the Big Gap.”](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5891/914.1.full) *Science* 321, no. 5891 (2008): 914.  
  
Hinshaw, John Hendrix. [“Darwinian Evolution and Social History.”](http://intl-jsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/1/261.full) *Journal of Social History* 45, no. 1 (Fall 2011): 261-273.  
  
Kenny, Michael. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://intl-jsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/1/261.full) *The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease* 198, no. 3 (March 2010): 234.  
  
Larson, Daniel O. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/ep07133141.pdf) *Evolutionary Psychology* 7, no. 1 (January 2009): 133-141.  
  
Lowenthal, David. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://www.historytoday.com/david-lowenthal/deep-history-and-brain) *History Today* 58, no. 3 (March 2008): 66.  
  
Mithen, Steven. [“When We Were Nicer.”](http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n02/steven-mithen/when-we-were-nicer) *London Review of Books* 30, no. 2 (January 24, 2008): 24-25.  
  
Morgan, Elaine. [“Who Are the Modern Humans?”](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407907629832) *New Scientist* 196, no. 2631 (November 24, 2007): 57.  
  
Pountain, Dick. [“How to Change Your Brains.”](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2008.00965.x/abstract) *Political Quarterly* 79, no. 4 (October 2008): 646-647.  
  
Reddy, William M. [“Neuroscience and the Fallacies of Functionalism.”](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2010.00551.x/abstract) *History & Theory* 49, no. 3 (October 2010): 412-425.  
  
Richards, Robert J. [“Recovering the Past.”](http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/recovering-the-past) *American Scientist* 96, no. 5 (September 2008): 418-420.  
  
Rose, Michael R. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6563.2010.00267_75.x/abstract) *Historian* 72, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 500-501.  
  
Sepkoski, David. [“On Deep History and the Brain.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/597689) *ISIS: Journal of the History of Science in Society* 99, no. 4 (December 2008): 820-821.  
  
Stadler, Max. [“Neurohistory Is Bunk?: The Not-So-Deep History of the Postclassical Mind.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675555)*Isis* 105, no. 1 (March 2014): 133-144.  
  
Alexander, Star. [“I Feel Good.”](http://www.nytimes.cosm/2008/03/16/books/review/Star-t.html?pagewanted=all) *New York Times Book Review* (March 16, 2008): 20.  
  
Zakariya, Nasser. [“Is History Still a Fraud?”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/hsns.2013.43.5.631) *Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences* 43, no. 5 (November 2013): 631-641.

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#### ***The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423*** (2003)

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Brunelle, Gayle K. [“The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/20477413?origin=JSTOR-pdf) *Sixteenth Century Journal* 36, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 541-542.  
  
Cheyette, Frederic L. [“Why Did Medieval People Go to Court?”](https://networks.h-net.org/node/16794/reviews/17034/cheyette-smail-consumption-justice-emotions-publicity-and-legal-culture) *H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences* (August 2005).

Cohen, Esther. [“The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423.”](http://www.h-france.net/vol4reviews/vol4no55Cohen.pdf) *H-France Review* 4, no. 55 (May 2004): 201-203.

Farr, James Richard. [“The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423.”](http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jih/summary/v035/35.4farr.html) *Journal of Interdisciplinary History* 35, no. 4 (Spring 2005): 647-648.  
  
Hudson, John. [“The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423.”](http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/109/5/1625.2.full.pdf%20html) *American Historical Review* 109, no. 5 (December 2004): 1625-1626.  
  
Klerman, Daniel M. [“The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423.”](http://lawweb.usc.edu/users/dklerman/PDFs/Klerman.%20Review%20of%20Smail.pdf) *Law & History Review* 22, no. 3 (2004): 645-646.  
  
Ratel, Guillaume. [“Review.”](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/pol.2004.27.2.138/abstract) *PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review*   
  
Reyerson, Kathryn L. [“The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/20463471) *Speculum* 80, no. 3 (July 2005): 980-982

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#### ***Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille*** (1999)

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Appuhn, Karl. [“Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2671420?origin=JSTOR-pdf) *The Sixteenth Century Journal* 32, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 177-178.  
  
Clemmons, Ray. [“Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille.”](http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=10336) *H-Net Reviews In The Humanities & Social Sciences* (March 2005): 1-4.

Drendel, John. [“Imaginary Cartographies (Book Review).”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2903685) *Speculum* 76, no. 4 (October 2001): 1103.  
  
Konvitz, Josef W. [“Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/1151537?origin=JSTOR-pdf) *Imago Mundi* 54 (2002): 161-162.  
  
Nicholas, David. [“Reviews of Books: Europe: Ancient and Medieval.”](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2692868) *American Historical Review* 106, no. 5 (December 2001): 1858.  
  
Traver, A. G. [“Europe.”](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03612759.2000.10525404#.U4YVkCiGc7k) *History: Reviews of New Books* 28, no. 2 (Winter 2000): 75.