Ludmilla Jordanova

Biographic Data

ID150241
NAMELudmilla Jordanova
GIVEN NAMESLudmilla
FAMILY NAMEJordanova
SIGNATUREJORDANOVA L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Essex
ORCID0000-0003-0738-1793
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS98
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • The Monarchs’ History Men: What Has Changed over Three Centuries

    Open AccessLudmilla JordanovaARTICLEThe Historical Journal2025

    Since its foundation in 1724, the regius chair has been held by twenty-two men. In this study, I consider a small selection of them, using a range of sources including a guard book in Cambridge University’s archives and portraits in order to reflect on their lives, works, and reputations and on ways of analysing the history of one specific post. The central role of the university’s registrary and the scope of incumbents’ intellectual concerns are…

  • Conversation: The history of science and the ‘big picture’

    Open AccessAndrew Barry, A W Barry et al.ARTICLEBJHS Themes2024

    This conversation article brings together six of the original contributors to the 1993 Getting the Big Picture special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science . The contributors introduce their personal memories of the 1991 conference panel which formed the basis of that special issue. They also discuss the wider intellectual, institutional and political contexts of writing the history of science during the 1980s and 1990s, before…

  • Portraiture, Biography and Public Histories

    Open AccessLudmilla JordanovaARTICLETransactions of the Royal…2022Cited by: 1References: 10

    Portraits and biographies play a central role in engaging non-specialists with the past, and hence invite careful scrutiny. Major enterprises, such as the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Dictionary of National Biography , in both its original and Oxford versions, provide rich examples for reflecting on public history and on the relationships between types of writing about past times. These issues relate to literature as well as to his…

  • The 2021 Historical Research lecture: Historians, accountabilities and judgement

    Open AccessLudmilla JordanovaARTICLEHistorical Research2021Cited by: 1

    Accountability' may be a useful notion for reflecting on historians' responsibilities, not just to students and peers but to their audiences, to ideas and to the past itself. The roles historians play in public life are of considerable interest given current controversies about 'contested heritage' that are strikingly polarized, with the lives of historical figures in the dock. To assess such roles, it is worth making comparisons with the situati…

  • Time, Death, and History

    Ludmilla JordanovaCHAPTERField Notes on the Visual Arts2019

  • Notices of Periodicals and Occasional Publications mainly from 2017

    Open AccessR Allen, Judith Barrow et al.ARTICLEThe English Historical Review2018

    in response and riposte to Constantine's reshaped Christianity.Journal of Ecclesiastical History, lxviii The origins of the Vandals' reputation as persecutors of Catholicism in North Africa and Spain in the fifth century is convincingly reassessed by E. Fournier.Their conquest of Africa was initially understood as normal warfare, without religious motivation.Tentative suggestions by Augustine which provided a way to interpret the devastation in t…

  • History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis, by Paul A. Cohen

    Ludmilla JordanovaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2016

    Paul Cohen’s book is readable, humane, thought-provoking and important. It speaks to historians, no matter what their specialised field, by drawing out broad themes around story-telling, memory, myth-making and historical practice. These are now well-discussed areas in our discipline and beyond. Cohen brings something especially precious to them—his elegant, clear writing, his wide knowledge (which is rooted in the study of China) and his ability…

  • Nature Displayed: Gender, Science and Medicine 1760–1820

    Ludmilla Jordanova, L J JordanovaBOOKNature Displayed2014

    A collection of essays - including 3 that have never been published before - by one of the leading figures in cultural history. Professor Jordanova examines and reinterprets the writings of eighteenth-century thinkers and, in the process, sheds light on contemporary views on issues such as motherhood, sexuality, the body, art and medicine. The volume includes some of the author's most controversial and pioneering work, all the pieces have been re…

  • Medical Visions: Producing the Patient through Film, Television, and Imaging Technologies by Kirsten Ostherr (review)

    Ludmilla JordanovaARTICLELiterature and medicine2014

    Reviewed by: Medical Visions: Producing the Patient through Film, Television, and Imaging Technologies by Kirsten Ostherr Ludmilla Jordanova (bio) Kirsten Ostherr. Medical Visions: Producing the Patient through Film, Television, and Imaging Technologies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 307 pp. Paperback, $27.95. The visual dimensions of medicine are now receiving sustained attention from scholars in many fields. At the same time, we …

  • Historical Vision in a Digital Age

    Ludmilla JordanovaARTICLECultural and Social History2014References: 1

    Keywords: digital culturehistorical practiceimagesportraiture

  • Mr Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age, by Dror Wahrman

    Ludmilla JordanovaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2014

    This is a book that is at once highly focused and wide-ranging, beautiful, and, in the end, perplexing. It concerns Edward Collier, an enigmatic Dutch artist, who lived in England for a while. He specialised in trompe l’oeil paintings, some of which contained letter racks with printed items tucked behind red fabric straps. They showed other intriguing objects, including letters, portraits, prints, candles, combs and quills. Dror Wahrman makes a v…

  • Portraits, patients and practitioners

    Ludmilla JordanovaARTICLEMedical Humanities2013

    Medicine and portraiture are entwined in intimate and distinctive ways. Thus portraits connected with health and medicine provide promising material for the medical humanities. In order for them to fulfil that promise, a number of issues need to be addressed. The nature of portraiture and the conditions under which portraits are made are fundamental considerations. The metaphorical power of the very idea ‘portrait’, which implies a faithful rende…

  • What's in a Name? Historians and Theory

    Ludmilla JordanovaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2011Cited by: 7

    Journal Article What’s in a Name? Historians and Theory Get access History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History. Volume XLVIII (2009) (Wiley-Blackwell; 4 issues per annum. Individual subscription £42);Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. Volumes XII, XIII and XIV (2008, 2009 and 2010) (Taylor and Francis; 4 issues per annum. Individual print-only subscription £86);What if ? Counterfactualism and the Problem of Histo…

  • Paul Sandby: History, observation and display

    Open AccessLudmilla JordanovaARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2010

  • Public History and the Public Understanding of Medicine: The Case of Embryology

    Ludmilla JordanovaARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2010

    Historians are only beginning to assess the impact of vast numbers of phenomena being made widely, easily and cheaply visible, especially on the worldwide web. ‘Phenomena’ might sound vague, but I use it deliberately to evoke the extraordinary scope of what can now be seen, and is relevant in some way to the past and its study. Until the eighteenth century, for example, naturalistic images of human embryos were unknown. In subsequent centuries th…

  • Historical Judgement: The Limits of Historiographical Choice

    Ludmilla JordanovaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2009Cited by: 1

    Jonathan Gorman's dense and demanding book raises challenging questions for historians, especially those who are outward-looking and concerned about the relationships between disciplines and about the kinds of knowledge they produce. Whether, however, it is intended to have this effect on practitioners of the discipline it discusses is unclear. Historical Judgement is a book for philosophers who write about domains that make knowledge claims, suc…

  • The Philosophy of History: Talks Given at the Institute of Historical Research, London, 2000-2006

    Ludmilla JordanovaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008Cited by: 1

    As its title suggests, this book is an assemblage of fifteen talks given to a seminar over seven years on a subject, ‘the philosophy of history’, which, we must recognise, is difficult to define. To say that its contents are diverse would be a dramatic understatement. Figures considered include Spinoza, Hegel, Collingwood, Foucault and Said. The French Revolution, the concept of civilisation, time, intertextuality, detachment and biography are so…

  • Image Matters

    Open AccessLudmilla JordanovaARTICLEThe Historical Journal2008Cited by: 4

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  • Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque Physician: The Art of Medical Portraiture (review)

    Ludmilla Jordanova, L J JordanovaARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    Turquet de Mayerne, a larger-than-life court physician who was painted by Rubens, is a fabulous subject for a historian. That he kept elaborate notes about some of the cases he dealt with over many years renders him exceptionally interesting to historians of medicine. Although he did not publish much in his lifetime, he wrote a great deal and approached his clinical activities with what appear to be unusually high levels of self-awareness and tho…

  • Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe , edited by Pamela H. Smith and Paula Findlen

    Open AccessLudmilla JordanovaARTICLEJournal of History2003

  • Portraits, People and Things: Richard Mead and Medical Identity

    Open AccessLudmilla JordanovaARTICLEHistory of Science2003Cited by: 1References: 5

    On peut remercier Porter (R.) d'avoir donne a la medecine britannique du XVIII e siecle un nouvel enchantement, particulierement a travers ses ecrits sur des medecins dont Richard Mead. Il decrit en effet son portrait qui represente pour Porter une chose materielle revelant l'identite d'un medecin

  • Double Perspective: Thomas Eakins in exhibition and print

    Open AccessLudmilla JordanovaARTICLEArt History2002

    Darrell Sewell (ed), Thomas Eakins

  • Presidential address: Remembrance of science past

    Open AccessLudmilla JordanovaARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2000Cited by: 6

    Commemoration is a theme to which historians are paying increasing attention, especially to its manifestations in the twentieth century and in relation to war. The formal remembrance of science is an important historical phenomenon, which demands approaches that take account of its distinctive and highly complex relationships with public life. Over the last four hundred years, peer groups and specialized institutions have sought to celebrate sele…

  • ‘Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality’

    Ludmilla JordanovaCHAPTERFeminist Theory and the Body1999

  • TWENTY Interrogating the Concept of Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century

    Ludmilla JordanovaCHAPTERConceiving the New World Order1996