Author: James Pilgrim (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2026 In the sixteenth century, Italian artist Jacopo Bassano painted pictures of herdsmen and animals moving through dark […]
[New Book] The Reception of Ancient Philosophers in Early Modern France
Author: Jiani Fan (Tsinghua University) Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2026 Offering a ground-breaking examination of how major French thinkers of the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries addressed the profound intellectual and spiritual crises of their […]
[New Book] Deprived of Sense and Intellect: Insanity, Possession, and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe
Author: Leigh Ann Craig (Virginia Commonwealth University) Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2026 Medieval saints were thought to be able to provide miraculous cures for a wide variety of illnesses, […]
[New Book] Useful Nature(s): Science, Pedagogy and the Power of Youth in Early Modern Central Europe
Author: Kelly J. Whitmer (Sewanee: The University of the South) Publisher: Brepols, 2026 The study of youth remains a tantalizing prospect in the sciences today, particularly as a means of […]
[New Book] The Wonders of Childbirth: Giving Life between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Author: Alessandra Foscati (Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences) Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2026 Childbirth has long been a subject that defies easy historical investigation – elusive, […]
[New Book] The Sense of Touch: Medieval and Modern Debates in Philosophy and Science
Editors: Chiara Beneduce (KU Leuven), Mattia Mantovani (KU Leuven), and Denise Vincenti (University of Perugia) Publisher: Springer, 2026 This book offers the first comprehensive study of medieval and modern debates […]
[New Book] Culture and Environment in the Early French Caribbean
Author: Michael Harrigan (FIE Foundation for International Education) Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026 Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, […]
[New Book] New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America
Author: Molly Farrell (Ohio State University) Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2026 This book tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering […]
[New Book] Delivering Knowledge: Jewish Midwives and Hidden Healing in Early Modern Europe
Author: Jordan R. Katz (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2026 This book offers a new perspective on the history of early modern Jewish communities by centering the […]
[New Book] Imagination and Performing Bodies
Editors: Elizabeth Claire, Béatrice Delaurenti, Roberto Poma, and Koen Vermeir (EHESS Paris) Publisher: Brepols, 2026 This edited collection of historical scholarship examines theories of corporeal perception at work in natural […]