Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

B.H.ローゼンワイン著　高齢者の歴史案内
Rosenwein, Barbara H., Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age. 224 pp. 2025:7 (Reaktion Books, UK) <746-1517>
ISBN 978-1-83639-091-6 hard ¥5,830.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00 *

Winter Dreams is an evocative history of the ways the old have thought, felt and expressed themselves over two millennia, tracking the experience of ageing through artistic, literary and historical records. While old age is often depicted as 'sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything', Barbara H. Rosenwein shows that the elderly have always retained their emotional depth and desires. She explores how these have changed over time, as societies' views of the elderly and of a 'good' old age have changed. And through careful exegesis, she allows the elderly, so often absent from the historical record, to speak to us. We live in a rapidly ageing society, yet ageism is rampant and death and dying are taboo subjects. Rosenwein's book is a finely wrought testimony to the value of ageing and the richness of our Winter Dreams.

Simon, Zoltan Boldizsar, Plurihistoricity: On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession. (Routledge Approaches to History) 304 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-1518>
ISBN 978-1-032-59720-1 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-59722-5 paper ¥11,656.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of human enhancement, in prospects of human extinction, in societal responses to the Anthropocene, and in the imperative of bringing colonial patterns of historical injustice to justice.Contemporary societies increasingly reclaim history from the academic pursuit of historiography. On the one hand, societal engagement in history is growing palpably. History is literally everywhere: in the fallen statues of past political regimes, in trajectories of environmental degradation, and in technological prospects of space expansion. On the other hand, societal demand for history seems to diminish rather than strengthen the authority of professionalized historical studies. What do these societal historicities stand for? How do they create pasts that matter? What futures do they desire or attempt to avoid? How do they view the historical transitions into those futures? And what is the societal role of historical scholarship and scholarly conceptions of history in the plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture?By addressing these questions, Simon's book is essential reading for everyone interested in the present and future of viewing the world historically.