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About Molly Taylor-Poleskey

Assistant Professor of Digital History at Middle Tennessee State University. Early Modern European Food Historian
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Digital Humanities October 21, 2020

Furnace and Fugue

A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary

Donna Bilak and Tara Nummedal

Hosted by Molly Taylor-Poleskey
In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the ear, eye, and intellect. The book unfolds as a series of fifty emblems, each of which contains an accompanying "fugue" music scored for three voices. Historians of alchemy have long understood this virtuoso work as an ambitious demonstration …
Food March 19, 2020

The Eternal Table

A Cultural History of Food in Rome

Karima Moyer-Nocchi

Hosted by Molly Taylor-Poleskey
Karima Moyer-Nocchi is a professor of modern languages at the University of Siena and a lecturer for the Master in Culinary Studies program at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata …
Food January 29, 2019

At the First Table

Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain

Jodi Campbell

Hosted by Molly Taylor-Poleskey
Jodi Campbell is Professor of History at Texas Christian University. She has written extensively on Spanish drama, royal history and women’s history. Her first book was published by Ashgate in …