Editors: Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuven) Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2025 [Open Access] The first comprehensive guide dedicated solely to research on Latin-European early […]
[New Book] Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers: A Theological Anthropological Lens to the Sixteenth-Century Astronomical Revolution
Author: Nienke Roelants (KU Leuven) Publisher: Brill, 2024 Focusing on the works of a select group of Lutheran astronomers in the Wittenberg sphere of influence, Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers […]
[New Book] Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Editor: Fabrizio Baldassarri (Harvard University) Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2025 This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way […]
[New Book] Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600
Author: A. Tunç Şen (Columbia University) Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2025 Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth […]
[New Book] Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements: A Study with Editions of Unpublished Texts
Author: Luca Burzelli (University of Siegen) Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2024 – Open Access In medieval and early modern natural philosophy, very few issues were as controversial as the nature […]
[New Book] Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times: Exploration of a Critical Relationship
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 […]