This online exhibition at the Edward Worth Library (Dublin) explores the books specifically about birds and others which include images of birds, for many of his natural histories were also […]
[New Book] The Word Made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600-1720
Author: Karin Sennefelt (Stockholm University) Publisher: Routledge, 2025 From children’s visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of […]
[New Book] Renaissance Skin
Author: Evelyn Welch (University of Bristol) Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2025 – Open Access The book provides a magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe. People in the Renaissance […]
[New Book] Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe
Author: Robert G. Morrison (Bowdoin College) Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2025 Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended […]
[New Book] Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World: Images, Objects, and Remains
Editor: Lori Jones (Carleton University / University of Ottawa) Publisher: ARC Humanities Press, 2025 This interdisciplinary volume offers new ways to think about how disease and death, and healing and […]
[New Book] The Mage’s Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory
Author: Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam) Publisher: Brill, 2025 This 4-volume work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), “one of the great […]
[New Book] Medical Theory and Practice in Early Modern Italy
Editors: Sandra Cavallo (University of London) & John Henderson (University of London / Cambridge) Publisher: Brepols, 2025 This volume brings together scholars at the forefront of the latest developments in […]
[New Book] The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
Author: Anne Lawrence-Mathers (University of Reading) Publisher: Yale University Press, 2025 Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers, religious […]
[New Book] Aristotle and New Spain
Author: Virginia Aspe Armella (Panamerican University) Publisher: Routledge, 2025 This book is a detailed exploration of the Hispanic intellectual context and the different Aristotelian traditions that prevailed until the sixteenth century. […]
[New Book] Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions
Editors: Deborah Hayden (National Museums NI) & Sarah Baccianti (Maynooth University) Publisher: Brepols, 2025 – Open Access Studies of medical learning in medieval England, Wales, Ireland, and Scandinavia have traditionally […]