Author: Javier Patiño Loira (UCLA) Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2024 A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping […]
[New Book] Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print
Author: Melissa Reynolds (Texas Christian University) Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2024 Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy […]
[New Book] Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350–1600
Editors: Carrie Griffin (University of Limerick) & Hannah Ryley (Balliol College) Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2024 Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary […]
[New Book] Medieval Perceptions of Magic, Science, and the Natural World
Editors: Carolina Escobar-Vargas (National University of Colombia) and Anne Lawrence-Mathers (University of Reading) Publisher: ARC Humanities Press, 2024 This volume presents new research in medieval conceptions of magic, science, and […]
[Digital Exhibit] Visualizing Science in the Rare Book Collections of the Bibliotheca Hertziana
Project: Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions Curation: Sietske Fransen, Leendert van der Miesen, Ariella Minden Science and art were two intertwined knowledge fields in the early modern period. […]
[Special Issue] Aristotle’s De sensu in the Latin Tradition, 1250-1650
Journal: Micrologus 31 (2023) Editors: Mattia Mantovani, Roberto Zambiasi and Gabriela Zuccolin Contents M. Mantovani – R. Zambiasi – G. Zuccolin, Introduction G. Galle, The Order of the Parva naturalia in Three Commentaries on De sensu Associated with […]
[New Book] Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Curiosity to See and Behold
Author: Whitney Dirks (Gustavus Adolphus College) Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2024 In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were […]
[New Book] Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850
Author: Martin Korenjak (University of Innsbruck) Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2023 This book provides the first overview of the vast natural scientific literature written and published in Latin in the […]
[New Book] The Alchemical Laboratory in Visual and Written Sources
Authors: Ivo Purš (Czech Academy of Sciences) & Vladimír Karpenko (Charles University) Publisher: Academia, 2024 Alchemy was an experimental laboratory activity that involved numerous disciplines. It was practised over time […]
[New Book] Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
Author: Elizabeth Gansen (Grand Valley State University) Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024 Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New […]