A mix of books bought new or second-hand – Umberto Eco, How to Spot a Fascist; Henri Lefebvre (no, not that Henri Lefebvre), The Missing Pieces; Robert Mandrou, Magistrats et sorciers en France au XVII^e siècle: Une analyse de psychologie historique; Bob Moore and Kent Fedorowich, Prisoners of War and their Captors in World War II, Michael Nerlich, Umberto Eco; Theresa Coletti, Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs and Modern Theory; Helen Deutsch, The Last Amateur: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said, and the Profession of Literature, and Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe.

Several of these relate to posts in the ‘Sunday Histories‘ series, on Eco, Prosperi, Said and Swift, POWs and Mandrou. I’ll write something on the confusion between this Henri Lefebvre and the more famous one soon.