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Early Modern History
Interviews with scholars of early modern history about their new books.
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…
September 26, 2024
A New Antiquity
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A N…
September 26, 2024
Female Servants in Early Modern England
Charmian Mansell joins Jana Byars to talk about Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2024). What was it like to be a wo…
September 26, 2024
The Great Reversal
In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I tried to send several letters to her Chinese counterpart, the Wan Li Emperor. The letters tried to ask the…
September 25, 2024
At Home with the Poor
At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850 (Manchester UP, 2024) by Dr. Joseph Harley opens the doors to t…
September 24, 2024
From Tudor to Stuart
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Sco…
September 20, 2024
Agincourt
Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking study by Michael Livingston …
September 17, 2024
Arise, England
Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State (Faber & Faber, 2024) offers a lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state…
September 13, 2024
Curious Species
Dive into the world of animals with Whitney Barlow Robles in her captivating new book, Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History (Yale UP, 202…
September 9, 2024
Literary Mathematics
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research re…
September 8, 2024
Dissident Rabbi
In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the…
September 7, 2024
Encyclopédie Noire
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-M…
September 3, 2024
Rubens in Repeat
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish…
September 3, 2024
The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic
In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (University of Delaware Press, 2019), Andrea Moudarres examines infl…
September 2, 2024
The Map of Knowledge
Violet Moller has written a narrative history of the transmission of books from the ancient world to the modern. In The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Y…
September 1, 2024
Pocahontas and the English Boys
In Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia (New York University Press, 2019), Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Silver Profes…