Editors: Lorenza Gianfrancesco (University of Chichester) & Neil Tarrant (University of Leeds) Publisher: UCL Press, 2024 Long neglected in the history of Renaissance and early modern Europe, in recent years […]
[New Book] Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel
Author: Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge) Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2024 Tracks on the Ocean is a sweeping history of how we have understood routes of travel over the […]
[New Book] Tracts of Action: Material, Visual, and Practical Dimensions of Early Modern How-to Books
Editor: Stefan Laube (Humboldt University Berlin) Publisher: Brill, 2024 This volume offers the user a guide to the neglected field of how-to books. How do I make soap? How do […]
[New Book] The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe
Author: Javier Patiño Loira (UCLA) Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2024 A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping […]
[New Book] Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print
Author: Melissa Reynolds (Texas Christian University) Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2024 Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy […]
[New Book] Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350–1600
Editors: Carrie Griffin (University of Limerick) & Hannah Ryley (Balliol College) Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2024 Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary […]
[New Book] Medieval Perceptions of Magic, Science, and the Natural World
Editors: Carolina Escobar-Vargas (National University of Colombia) and Anne Lawrence-Mathers (University of Reading) Publisher: ARC Humanities Press, 2024 This volume presents new research in medieval conceptions of magic, science, and […]
[Digital Exhibit] Visualizing Science in the Rare Book Collections of the Bibliotheca Hertziana
Project: Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions Curation: Sietske Fransen, Leendert van der Miesen, Ariella Minden Science and art were two intertwined knowledge fields in the early modern period. […]
[Special Issue] Aristotle’s De sensu in the Latin Tradition, 1250-1650
Journal: Micrologus 31 (2023) Editors: Mattia Mantovani, Roberto Zambiasi and Gabriela Zuccolin Contents M. Mantovani – R. Zambiasi – G. Zuccolin, Introduction G. Galle, The Order of the Parva naturalia in Three Commentaries on De sensu Associated with […]
[New Book] Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Curiosity to See and Behold
Author: Whitney Dirks (Gustavus Adolphus College) Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2024 In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were […]