Editors: Hannah Wills (UCL), Sadie Harrison (UCL), Erika Jones (Royal Museums, Greenwich), Rebecca Martin (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), and Farrah Lawrence-Mackey (UCL) Publisher: UCL Press, 2023 – […]
[New Book] Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean
Author: Andrew Griebeler (Duke University) Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2024 This book traces the history of botanical illustration in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the early modern period. By […]
[New Book] Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
Author: Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2023 In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite […]
[New Book] The Making of Technique in the Arts: Theories and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
Editors: Sven Dupré (University of Utrecht / Amsterdam) & Marieke Hendriksen (Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences) Publisher: Brepols, 2023 What is technique in the arts? Now widely used […]
[New Book] Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement
Author: Teresa Hollerbach (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) Publisher: Springer, 2023 This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and into […]
[New Book] Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science
Author: Debapriya Sarkar (University of Connecticut) Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023 The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, […]
[New Book] Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge
Editors: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) & Dionysios Stathakopoulos (University of Cyprus) Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023 This volume examines the history of drugs within all the […]
[New Book] The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable
Author: Kevin Killeen (University of York) Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2023
[New Book] Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Relics
Editor: Sarah Lang (University of Graz) Publisher: Graz University Library Publishing (2023)
[New Book] Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions
Editors: Ovanes Akopyan (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) & David Rosenthal (University of Exeter) Publisher: Routledge, 2023 How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did […]