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Early Modern History
Interviews with scholars of early modern history about their new books.
October 24, 2024
The Invention of Scarcity
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and envi…
October 23, 2024
The Librarian's Atlas
In The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain (U Chicago Press, 2024) Seth Kimmel explores the material history of libraries …
October 23, 2024
Religion and Republic
In our latest podcast episode, we sat down with historian Miles Smith, who teaches at Hillsdale College, to discuss his new book, Religion and Republi…
October 21, 2024
Sea Level
News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and c…
October 19, 2024
Unsettling Sexuality
Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson set out, their new collection, Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century (University of Delaw…
October 18, 2024
Samurai with Telephones
What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching i…
October 18, 2024
Liberty Equality Fashion
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had …
October 17, 2024
The Monsoon Cloud
A wordsmith, an extempore poet and a satirist, Kāḷamēkam (also known as Kāḷamēka Pulavar; fifteenth century) is widely known for his taṉippāṭals or 's…
October 16, 2024
Beyond Orientalism
The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism: Ah…
October 13, 2024
Written in Water
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Dr. Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and establish a solid foundation for the…
October 13, 2024
Women Writing Antiquity
Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women authors' struggle to define the female intellectu…
October 10, 2024
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha's Defence of Realism in the Nyāyāmṛta (de Gruyter, 2024) focuses on discussions of metaphysi…
October 9, 2024
Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520
For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation look…
October 7, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur “Genius Prize” winning historian Pamela Long about her long career writing about the history o…
October 7, 2024
The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838
Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known…
October 5, 2024
The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy
Serena Laiena joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, The Theater Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing (University …
October 3, 2024
The Enthusiast
The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture (Cornell UP, 2023) tells the story of a character type that was develope…
October 1, 2024
In the Land of Marvels
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the cele…
September 28, 2024
The Enlightenment
Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents…
September 28, 2024
Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy rea…