Editors: Luís Ribeiro (University of Lisbon) & Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Publisher: Brill, 2025 Astrologers at Work brings together fourteen scholars to explore the history of astrological practice, focusing on […]
[New Book] Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation, and Exchange Since 1500
Editors: Nicholas B. Miller (Flagler College) & Ulrike Lindner (University of Cologne) Publisher: SUNY – State University of New York, 2025 [Open Access] Few institutions feature as prominently in contemporary […]
[New Book] The Cartographic Fool: Prints, Religion, and Visual Culture in Renaissance Europe
Author: Michael Sauter (University of Suffolk) Publisher: De Gruyter, 2026 The Cartographic Fool uncovers the story of the “Fool’s Cap Map,” an engraving published ca. 1595 in Antwerp. Placing it […]
[New Book] Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution
Author: Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick) Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2026 This book argues that gems were connected to major developments in the “new science” between the sixteenth and […]
[New Book] Galen’s Remedies in the Early Modern Period: Traditions, Theories, Transformations, and Trades (1400-1750)
Editors: John Wilkins & Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Exeter) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 Surviving the demise of his humoral pathology and anatomy, Galen’s works on simple and compound remedies (the […]
[New Book] Early Modern Bodies
Editor: Sarah Toulalan (University of Exeter) Publisher: Routledge, 2025 Early Modern Bodies is a wide-ranging and detailed introduction to a variety of different approaches to and perspectives on bodies in […]
[New Book] Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances
Editors: G. Geltner (Monash University), Janna Coomans (Utrecht University) and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (University of London) Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2026 The public health movement is commonly (and incorrectly) characterized as […]
[New Book] The State Drug: Theriac, Pharmacy, and Politics in Early Modern Italy
Author: Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore (CREA Padua) Publisher: Harvard University Press (2025) From the 1490s, one of the most influential remedies to circulate in Europe was the “wonder drug” theriac. […]
[Special Issue] Early Modern Adaptations and Transformations of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy
Editors: Simone Guidi (ILIESI, Rome) & Enrico Pasini (ILIESI / University of Turin) Journal: Aristotelica, vol. 7, 2025 (Rosenberg & Sellier) – Open Access In the development of early modern […]
[New Book] Crafting Medicine: Artisans, Knowledge, and the Common Man in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Books on Surgery and Distillation
Author: Tillmann Taape (Charité – Berlin University Medicine) Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2025 Between 1497 and 1512, Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450–ca. 1530), an obscure craftsman from Strasbourg, wrote books […]