Editor: Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona) Publisher: De Gruyter, 2024 The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been […]
[New Book] The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism
Author: Walter Roy Laird (Carleton University, Ottawa) Publisher: Springer, 2024 This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and […]
[New Book] Writing the Heavens: Celestial Observation in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Editors: Aura Heydenreich (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Florian Klaeger (University of Bayreuth), Klaus Mecke (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Dirk Vanderbeke (University of Jena) and Jörn Wilms (University of Bamberg) Publisher: De Gruyter, 2025 – Open Access In […]
[New Book] Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe
Author: Scott K. Taylor (University of Kentucky) Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2024 Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods and become […]
[Special Issue] Nehemiah Grew and the Making of ‘The Anatomy of Plants’ (1682)
Editors: Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Aarhus University) & Pamela Mackenzie (University of British Columbia) Journal: Centaurus, Volume 65, Issue 4 (Brepols) – Open Access Nehemiah Grew was an active member of […]
[New Book] Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves
Author: Steven Shapin (Harvard University) Publisher: Chicago University Press, 2024 Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about […]
[New Book] The Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England
Editors: Subha Mukherji (University of Cambridge) & Elizabeth L. Swann (Durham University) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 This book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with […]
[New Book] Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation: Training the Literate Eye
Author: Stephanie A. Leitch, Florida State University Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024 Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian […]
[New Book] Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages: Pietro d’Abano on Body, Soul, and the Virtues
Author: Matthew Klemm (Ithaca College, New York) Publisher: De Gruyter, 2025 This book considers the introduction of materialist and physiological reasoning into late medieval discourse on the soul in the […]
[New Book] Thaddaeus Hagecius, or Hájek, 1526-1600: Bohemian Polymath of the Rudolfine Period
Editor: Martin Zemla (Palacky University, Olomouc) Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2025 Tadeas Hajek of Hajek (1526–1600), Latinized as Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hagek/Hayek, was a key figure in early scientific debates […]