The latest issue of Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science is now available online. Special issue: Early Modern Geometries Claudia Swan, Early Modern Geometries: Introduction [Open […]
Monthly Archives: September 2020
[New Book] Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
Author: Hannah Marcus Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, 2020 Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the […]
[New Book] Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy
Author: Jennifer F. Kosmin Publisher: Routledge, 2020 Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy: Contested Deliveries explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice […]
[New Book] The Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Edited by: Marcia Kupfer, Adam S. Cohen, J.H. Chajes Brepols (Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages), 2020 This collection of essays by leading scholars reflects new interest in how […]
[Virtual Exhibit] Nova Reperta Time Machine
This site accompanies Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta, a Newberry exhibition (Fall 2020) and Northwestern University publication. Travel to the Renaissance through the Newberry’s engravings, maps, and books—using the Nova Reperta print […]