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Language, Settings, and Networks for Early Modern Private Conversations
This chapter introduces the research area by proposing the angle of privacy to analyse the subject of everyday conversations in early modern Europe....
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Sacred Sororities: Devotion and Death in Early Modern Jewish Communities
During the early modern period, pious confraternities and sororities evolved into formal associations with their own bylaws and record books. A trail...
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From Thieves to Martyrs: The Story of Two Jews from Early Modern Moravia
This paper focuses on the story of two Jewish men who were convicted of theft and executed in Prostějov, Moravia, in the spring of 1684. Although the...
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Cursing in Early Modern Townships
This chapter looks further into the wider dimensions of cursing violations, exploring the disciplinary measures and violent repression employed to...
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Between Neighbors and Strangers: Representations of the Indigenous People of America and Construction of Jewish Identity in Early Modern Western Europe
In a time when theological and scientific concepts of the New World were molded, European Jews, like their fellow Christians, were exposed to...
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Conversos, Moriscos, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Spain: Some Reflections on Jewish Exceptionalism
Sacrilegious attitudes toward the Eucharistic host are one of the most commonplace accusations leveled against Jews in premodern Europe. Usually...
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Vision on Vision: Defining Similarities Among Early Modern Illustrations on Cosmology
In the present work we show how many scientific illustrations of the early modern period can be used to track the evolution of visual knowledge and...
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Pests, Plagues and Pastoral Husbandry: Representing Ovine Disease in Early Modern England
From an ecocritical perspective, the study of ovineOvine diseaseDisease in early modern England allows us to call into question the ‘naturalNatural’...
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“We Take Care of Our Own”: Talking about ‘Disability’ in Early Modern Netherlandish Households
This chapter investigates how people in the Netherlands talked about disability, poverty, and charity in the privacy of their homes in the sixteenth...
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A Theory of Philological Practice in Early Modern India
Premodern Indian philology in the sense of ecdotics and interpretation begins late in the scholarly tradition, at the end of the first millennium CE....
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Art in Republics: Venice and the Netherlands
The art market and collecting were indispensable assets of ruling dynasties for the (self)-representation of their monarchies and for the emergence...
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Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond—Critical Remarks on Old Concepts
Early modern states in Europe and the Americas offer a field of research dealing with questions of the absence, presence, or enforcement of statehood...
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Labour as a Form of Charity and Almsgiving in Early Modern Poor Relief
As is well known, forced labour was one of the cornerstones of most early modern poor relief programmes. Social historians have chiefly focused on...
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Introduction: Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe
In The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), Jacob BurckhardtBurckhardt, Jacob famously proclaimed that the Renaissance...
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Lines of Loyalties and Early Modern Cultural Diversity: Colophons as Sites of Encounters
In the early modern period, moments of personal transition manifested in written documents that had to be signed by officials, testimonies, and the...
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China’s Art Market Before 1978
Ever since China encountered modernity, its naturally evolving art economy first experienced colonial influences and later a truncation of its...
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Modern Chinese Civilization
“Nothing in this world can withstand the longing for spring, / These longings join together until they reach the shadowy netherworld in tears. / The...
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American Art Collectors and Their Imaginings
Italian art easily accessible to the public has been, and remains, a potent means of kee** Italy alive in the American imagination. Art is...
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Art, War, and Empire: A History
From its foundation, modern Russian identity was defined by warfare. The imperial period, indeed, began with Russia’s victory over Sweden in the...