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 […]
[New Book] Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe
Author: Erin Griffey (University of Auckland) Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2025 The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period also […]
[New Book] Exoticizing Consumption: European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740
Editors: Emma C. Spary (University of Cambridge) & Justin Rivest (Kenyon College) Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025 Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first […]
[New Book] The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire
Author: Valeria López Fadul (Wesleyan University) Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026 This book explores how languages served as archives of local knowledge and a crucial resource for both the […]
[New Book] Technology in Mediterranean and European Lands, 600–1600
Author: Pamela O. Long (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025 This book explores the intricate web of technological advancements that shaped Mediterranean and European societies […]
[New Book] Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image
Author: Jack Hartnell (National Gallery, London) Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2025 The Wound Man—a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases—was reproduced […]
[New Book] The Traveling Anatomist: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science
Author: Nuno Castel-Branco (University of Oxford) Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2025 Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) was a renowned anatomist in his lifetime. He reformed the anatomical understanding of glands, argued […]
[New Book] The ‘Kiss’ and the Medicine of Love: A Critical Edition of Francesco Patrizi’s Il Delfino
Author: Tommaso Ghezzani (Bryn Mawr College) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 This book is centered on the history of medicine by incorporating theories on the disease of love into a philosophical […]