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Reading Rutters: Daybooks of the Rutter Crew

Biscuit fot the Navy Fleet II
May 26, 2023
Biscuit for the Navy Fleet I
May 19, 2023
Wind Patterns in the Indian Ocean
May 12, 2023
Jane Squire, Lady Longitude
April 28, 2023
Abreast of the Times
April 19, 2023

Cooking in the Archives – Updating Early Modern Recipes (1600-1800) in a Modern Kitchen

To Make Seed-Cake
May 22, 2023 by Marissa Nicosia
To make Sage Pudding
March 31, 2023 by Marissa Nicosia
3/25 Pottsgrove Manor Event
March 17, 2023 by Marissa Nicosia
Cornish Cakes
February 13, 2023 by Marissa Nicosia
To Make Ginger Bread (Bridget Parker)
December 5, 2022 by Marissa Nicosia

Intoxicating Spaces

Love and Intoxication in a Renaissance Pleasure Palace
January 23, 2023 by crosbystevens
Our Virtual Exhibition is Now Live!
December 21, 2022 by projectteam
‘It Brought Much Slime Out of the Gutts and Made Me Cheerfull’: Defining Intoxicants in the Diary of Robert Hooke
March 5, 2022 by connorplunkett
Getting to the Root of It: Saloop in Early Modern London
February 8, 2022 by freyapurcell
Narcotic Letters: New Intoxicants in the Correspondence of Isabelle de Charrière
January 31, 2022 by suzanvandijk

Histoires naturelles

Salons de Choiseul “Le Végétal” 2023
April 5, 2023 by Tassanee Alleau
Episode 22 du Podcast Histoires naturelles / la recherche de Flo*Souad Benaddi
March 23, 2023 by Tassanee Alleau
Quelques racines à la Bibliothèque nationale de France [XVIe-XVIIIe siècles] Des bouts de racines? [1]
March 9, 2023 by Tassanee Alleau
Appel à communications – 6e Rencontres doctorales de l’ADCESR, Tours “L’empire des sens : Vers un paysage sensoriel à la Renaissance”
January 14, 2023 by Tassanee Alleau
L’alimentation des Amérindiens selon Cabeza de Vaca
January 10, 2023 by Tassanee Alleau

The Recipes Project

Recipes to Remember: Coriander, Gallyngale, and the Legacies of the Lost
May 25, 2023 by Melissa Reynolds
Outside Issues: Tea Gardens in Early Modern London
May 18, 2023 by Melissa Reynolds
“To shorten winter evenings”: Recipes as Remedies Against Seasonal Melancholy
March 23, 2023 by RA Kashanipour
Playful Learning with Food: Historical Recipe Assignments in the Classroom
March 16, 2023 by RA Kashanipour
Playing with Language in Medieval Satirical Recipes
March 9, 2023 by RA Kashanipour

DisHist – History of Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe

New Book – The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany, by Heidi Hausse, pub. by Manchester University
May 23, 2023 by Ninon Dubourg (sharing info)
New book – Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages, by Ninon Dubourg, pub. by Amsterdam University Press
May 23, 2023 by Ninon Dubourg (sharing info)
New book – Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland, by Lucy Barnhouse, pub. by Amsterdam University Press
May 23, 2023 by Ninon Dubourg (sharing info)
CFP – Histories of Disability and Emotions – An International Online Conference Hosted by KU Leuven and the University of Liège, Belgium, 13-15 June 2023
December 21, 2022 by Ninon Dubourg (sharing info)
New book – The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity, by Jessica L. Wright, pub. by University of California Press
December 19, 2022 by Ninon Dubourg (sharing info)

Premodern Healthscaping

New project: Mining Activities, Public Health Strategies and Pollution Legacies in Europe, 1200-1600
March 20, 2023 by Sarah May
Lecture: Supplying the slave trade in 10th-century Prague
February 13, 2023 by Sarah May
Medieval Round Table: The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe
January 26, 2023 by Sarah May
Virtual Book Launch: Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World
January 3, 2023 by Sarah May
Public Film Screening, Deakin University
October 30, 2022 by Sarah May

Via Moderna – Les sciences médiévales

Introduction à la théorie du son
September 10, 2022 by Yanick Laverdière
Le rasoir d’Ockham
May 22, 2021 by Yanick Laverdière
La querelle des universaux
October 12, 2020 by Yanick Laverdière
La mécanique des trébuchets
January 16, 2020 by Benoît Buscemi
Introduction à l’optique
January 5, 2020 by Yanick Laverdière

The Global History Podcast – Exploring Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern World

Charles Walker on the Life and Times of an Andean Witness to the Age of Revolutions
August 6, 2022
Rachel Kaufman on Poetry, Memory, and Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico
August 16, 2021
Sujit Sivasundaram on the Age of Revolutions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans
May 17, 2021
Stephen Whiteman on Landscape, Space, and Global Connections at the Kangxi Emperor’s Estate at Rehe
February 15, 2021
Janet Gyatso on Medicine, Buddhism, and the Body in Early Modern Tibet
August 29, 2020

Experiencing Epidemics

Ep. 13: The World War, refugees, and the long history of epidemics
November 9, 2021
Ep. 12: Erasmus on fear, plague and prudence
June 23, 2021
Ep. 11: The Plague in Mumbai and Vienna (1897-1898)
April 16, 2021
Ep. 10: The travels and transformations of John of Burgundy’s Plague Tract
February 26, 2021
Ep. 9: Plague hospitals and disease control in Renaissance Venice
February 1, 2021

The Sphere of Sacrobosco

Christine de Pizan travels to the heavens
September 21, 2020 by Kathleen Crowther
Boethius and the Consolation of Astronomy, part 2
September 14, 2020 by Kathleen Crowther
Boethius and the Consolation of Astronomy, part 1
September 7, 2020 by Kathleen Crowther
The Danti Family Sphere
August 31, 2020 by Kathleen Crowther
Monks read the Sphere
August 24, 2020 by Kathleen Crowther

Facing the Past

The ‘fake’ faces controversy on Love Island
July 8, 2021
Disability, the Face and Technologies of Empire
July 5, 2021
‘History has Many Faces: researching histories of facial surgery’ guest post for AboutFace
May 18, 2021
Hidden Histories podcast
May 11, 2021
Horns of War
March 25, 2021

Studium Scientiae – Building Universities One Card at a Time

Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
August 28, 2020
Luca Ghini
May 18, 2020
Galileo Galilei
May 9, 2020
Laura Bassi
May 3, 2020
Photo credits
April 28, 2020

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PsRen – Poésie et science à la Renaissance

Une galerie de poètes scientifiques par Guillaume Colletet (1658)
May 2, 2023 by Chiara Cacciola
L’Aglaophotis marine, plante « rara et admiranda »
July 3, 2020 by Chiara Cacciola
« Cygne augure » : le présage des cygnes au seuil de la Saint-Barthélemy
May 21, 2020 by Chiara Cacciola
L’ “Hymne de la Science” de Christofle de Gamon (1598)
November 15, 2019 by Chiara Cacciola
“L’Antidote des livres d’amour”, brève histoire d’un manuscrit perdu
November 3, 2019 by Chiara Cacciola

Weather – La représentation des catastrophes naturelles dans la littérature anglaise des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Annonce de publication
October 3, 2020
Francis Bacon and the Mastery of the Winds
October 3, 2020
Frozen : Journeys to the End of the World
October 2, 2020
The Impact of Climate on Early Modern Watercolours
September 28, 2020
Comparative collapsology: from Shakespeare to George R.R. Martin
September 21, 2020

Condorelli – Crisis and Catastrophes in Early Modern Europe

Dreaming about social change in the time of COVID
November 28, 2020 by Stefano Condorelli
Early Modern Financial History series of online seminars
November 9, 2020 by Stefano Condorelli
Una testimonianza del terremoto di Messina del 1908
October 29, 2020 by Stefano Condorelli
La peste de 1628 à Lyon : les « aisez » face aux pauvres, entre crainte, aumône et mépris
June 8, 2020 by Stefano Condorelli
Dans quelle mesure les grandes pestes du passé éclairent-elles la pandémie de Covid-19, mais aussi notre difficulté à changer nos comportements face au défi climatique ?
May 15, 2020 by Stefano Condorelli

Early Modern Experimental Philosophy

Antoine Le Grand, Robert Boyle and Speculative Philosophy
June 16, 2020 by Peter Anstey
Nicolas Malebranche: Critic of Experimental Philosophy
March 25, 2020 by Peter Anstey
A New Volume on Early Modern Experimental Philosophy
March 27, 2019 by Peter Anstey
The Darker Side of Baconianism
December 6, 2018 by Kirsten Walsh
Natural Histories and Newton’s Theory of the Tides
September 3, 2018 by Kirsten Walsh

The Weight of Things

Usus: Duodecim diuisionum geometricarum
February 5, 2021
Antuerpiani, de regulae pantometrae ab ipso inventae fabrica et usu libi septem
February 5, 2021
Discorso sopra alle misure che fa un pugnale
February 5, 2021
Ragionamenti de Nicolo Tartaglia
February 4, 2021
Mercurij Trismegisti Pimandras vtraqve lingva restitvtvs
February 4, 2021

DRBP – The Digital Recipe Books Project

A Guide to Transcribing
May 10, 2020 by adamcampbelldrew
Importance of social media in the creation of Old Timey Winey
May 8, 2020 by eangus
Combatting Coughs in Eighteenth-Century England.
May 7, 2020 by bdavey
The dark side of female alliances
May 6, 2020 by ebanyai
Early Modern recipe books for when you’re not ill
May 5, 2020 by Amanda Horne

Early Modern Medicine

Struck upon the Belly
July 14, 2021
St. David’s Day Daffodils
March 1, 2021
Gender Concealed: How to get a boy in the early modern era
February 10, 2021
Learning to Walk
January 12, 2021
Weight loss Wonders
January 4, 2021

PIM – Patrimoine intellectuel à Montpellier

Les historiens du patrimoine scientifique à Montpellier (XIXe siècle)
March 12, 2022 by gdumas
Les historiens du patrimoine scientifique de Montpellier 1
March 9, 2022 by Béatrice Bakhouche
La ‘Lettre sur la Pâque’ de Timothée
June 25, 2021 by Béatrice Bakhouche
Notes succinctes à propos des Curieuses recherches sur les Escholes en médecine de Paris et de Montpellier (Paris 1651), de Jean Riolan fils, pour rappeler les principaux sujets de dissension entre les deux universités
June 15, 2021 by Béatrice Bakhouche
La gestion des eaux dans le Montpellier médiéval (1)
June 1, 2021 by Béatrice Bakhouche

Métamorphoses – Littérature et science du XVIe au XXe siècles

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January 18, 2022
Vient de paraître: “Arts et Savoirs” numéro 12 – Révolution et évolution
March 3, 2020
Programme BIOHUMANITIES conférence de Cédric Grimoult
February 11, 2020
Appel à contribution
December 6, 2019
Vient de paraître
December 2, 2019