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 […]
[New Book] Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis
Editors: William R. Newman & Jutta Schickore (Indiana University Bloomington) Publisher: Springer, 2025 – Available in Open Access This open access book provides a fresh perspective on analysis and synthesis across […]
[New Book] Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, 1493–1541): Cosmological and Meteorological Writings
Editors: Andrew Weeks (Illinois State University) & Didier Kahn (Sorbonne University) Publisher: Brill, 2024 Paracelsus (1493-1541) stands at a crossroads associated with the Renaissance and Reformation. His cosmological-meteorological writings exemplify […]
[New Book] Physiognomy at the Crossroad of Magic, Science, and the Arts
Editors: Massimo Ciavolella, Megan Tomlinson (UCLA), and Valeria Finucci (Duke University) Publisher: De Gruyter, 2024 The volume examines how the study of facial features or expressions as indicative of character […]
[Digital Exhibit] The Practice of Medicine in Early Modern Europe
Digital exhibit on early modern medicine at the Edward Worth Library (Dublin) The Edward Worth Library is a rare books collection, bequeathed to Dr Steevens’ Hospital (Dublin) by Dr Edward […]
[New Book] Hylomorphism into Pieces: Elements, Atoms, and Corpuscles in Natural Philosophy and Medicine, 1400–1600
Editors: Nicola Polloni (University of Messina) & Sylvain Roudaut (KU Leuven) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the […]