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Early Modern History
Interviews with scholars of early modern history about their new books.
May 4, 2026
Intimacy and Social (Dis)Order in Dutch Colonial Expansion
Explosive sexual scandals, bitter domestic conflicts, and dramatic changes in fortune. Sex, marriage, and family life were matters of enormous consequ…
May 2, 2026
The Ambassador and the Courtesan
Paola de Santo joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Renaissance Italy (U Delaware Press,…
April 28, 2026
The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals
In the thirteenth-century Mediterranean, commerce transformed as merchants shifted from Roman to Indo-Arabic numerals—an alternative that better facil…
April 25, 2026
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral…
April 24, 2026
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance
Today, I interview Vin Nardizzi, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, about his new monograph Marvellous Vegetables in the Engl…
April 23, 2026
I, Wandering Jew
The story behind the mythical figure of "the Wandering Jew" is one of the most fascinating tales in European history. In I, Wandering Jew, National Je…
April 21, 2026
Fairies
Many people think they know what fairies are, what a fairy looks like, and how a fairy is expected to behave. Dr. Francis Young's Fairies: A History (…
April 17, 2026
Huguenot Networks
Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge UP, 2025), Penny Robert's latest book, takes us into the world of secret i…
April 16, 2026
American Bacon
In American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon (U Georgia Press, 2026), Dr. Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How h…
April 8, 2026
The Burgeoning European Print Trade
Karen L. Bowen and Dirk Imhof join Jana Byars to talk about their new book, The Burgeoning European Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints Via the Pl…
April 6, 2026
Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science
Naming new discoveries is central to science, and for centuries, Latin dominated this process. The resulting terminology still shapes modern science, …
April 4, 2026
Fossil Consumerism
Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries (Leuven UP, 2026) by Dr. Wout Saelens explores how the homes o…
March 31, 2026
Canada in the Age of Rum
Awash in a sea of rum describes the years between the 1670s and the 1830s in the colonies that would later become Canada. Millions of litres of the su…
March 25, 2026
Justifying Transgression
How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian worlds over the period 1200 to …
March 24, 2026
In the Sun King's Cosmos
In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France (Northwestern University Press 2025) explores the relation…
March 13, 2026
The Radical Spanish Empire
The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters (Harvard UP, 2026) is a groundb…
March 11, 2026
Gems and the New Science
In Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution (U Chicago Press, 2026), Dr. Michael Bycroft argues that gems were connect…
March 11, 2026
Life in the Georgian Parsonage
An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the Englis…
March 1, 2026
Textures of Mourning
Reginald Jackson’s inspiring new book takes a transdisciplinary approach to rethinking how we read, how we pay attention, and why that matters deeply …
February 26, 2026
Making Babies in Early Modern England
Leah Astbury's new book, Making Babies in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2025), explores the ideals and realities that governed generation in …