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Early Modern History
Interviews with scholars of early modern history about their new books.
November 27, 2024
Dante the Theologian
An understanding of Dante the theologian as distinct from Dante the poet has been neglected in an appreciation of Dante's work as a whole. That is t…
November 22, 2024
Monstrous Fantasies
Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500 (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Leila Norako asks w…
November 20, 2024
Venice
No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites o…
November 20, 2024
Shakespeare's Sisters
In Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance (Knopf, 2024) by Dr. Ramie Targoff, discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renai…
November 18, 2024
Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina
In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to provide a detailed account of the colony's population. Among the groups …
November 17, 2024
The Wicked of the Earth
October, 1650, traumatised Parliamentarian spy James Archer returns north seeking his sister Meg, missing in the aftermath of Newcastle’s recent witch…
November 15, 2024
The War People
In The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (Cambridge UP, 2024), Lucian Staino-Daniels uses the tra…
November 10, 2024
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript (University of …
November 10, 2024
Redreaming the Renaissance
Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor Guido Ruggiero (University of Delaware Press, 2024) seeks to remedy the dearth o…
November 6, 2024
Dante's Education
In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent i…
November 3, 2024
A Murderous Midsummer
The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between the Black Death and the Civil War. Beginning as an a…
November 1, 2024
Magisteria
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespr…
October 31, 2024
Fictions of Pleasure
Alistaire Tallent joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France (University of Dela…
October 30, 2024
Hessians
Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, th…
October 28, 2024
Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas
In Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study (University Press of Florida, 2024), Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeol…
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…