Culture and prejudice played profound roles in generating violence. Introduction Augustus Caesar would say, that he wondered...
Early Modern
Early modern history connects changes in everyday life with expanding contact between distant societies. Explore how people negotiated religious and political authority as their worlds grew more closely linked.
We can typically identify three clear waves of European colonialism. Introduction The historical phenomenon of colonization is one that...
This is the era the Europeans and Eastern counterparts “woke up”, expanded, and built empires. Introduction The history...
Exploring the economic and political impacts of maritime enterprises of Europe in the Early Modern world. By...
The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state...
Barruel wrote that the French Revolution was planned and executed by the secret societies. Introduction Augustin Barruel...
During the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests...
Crispin van de Passe’s perfect elephant as featured in his ‘t Light der teken en schilderkonst (1643) / Internet...
Hutterite family 1588 Anabaptists constituted one of the most persecuted and most mobile religious populations of the...
Sephardic Diaspora map / Skillman Library, Lafayette College Were (and are) Jewish migrations predominantly the result of...
Pictured on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum: Dog-shaped Box on a Low Table (background) and Peach-shaped Box (foreground), Japanese, Edo...
Beehive in a Floral Wreath (detail), 1730, Maria Sibylla Merian. The Getty Research Institute, 89-B10813 Maria Sibylla Merian...
The 17th century was a time of great political and social turmoil in England, marked by civil...
Barcelona’s harbor in the 18th Century / Wikimedia Commons In the early-18th century, absolute monarchies set about...
The Inquisition Tribunal, by Francisco Goya, c.1815 / Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Wikimedia...
Engraving of the Star Chamber, published in “Old and new London” in 1873, taken from a drawing...
William Hogarth – Industry and Idleness, Plate 5; The Idle ‘Prentice turn’d away, and sent to Sea...
Marianne is the embodiment of the French Republic. Marianne represents the permanent values that found her citizens’...
It can be hard to fathom the society-altering impact the new printed image had when it first...
Floats for the Kanda Festival, 1843 / Photo by Daderot, Edo-Tokyo Museum, Wikimedia Commons Looking at Japan’s...
EPB/35960/A: François Mauriceau, The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed...
Freed slaves in the Danish West Indies / Public Domain A long and complicated history of Scandinavian-Caribbean relations....
The pirate flag of Captain Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard. The flag shows a skeleton spearing a heart...
Equestrian portrait of Catherine in the Preobrazhensky Regiment’s uniform. / Wikimedia Commons Enlightened despotism, also called benevolent...
Portuguese Fort Aguada, Goa, India / Photo by Abhijit Nandi, Creative Commons Beginning in the early modern age, European...
Detail from The BEGGARS Delight, EBBA 34937. As explored later in the essay, this woodcut would be reused...
Hendrick Avercamp’s ‘Ice Scene’ (c. 1610). Wikimedia Commons The function of fashion as a form of cultural transfer in...
Mary Queen of Scots was at the centre of numerous plots to kill Queen Elizabeth I. Pierre Révoil...
1750 map of America / museumoutlets.com By Dr. Marcus Gräser / 02.08.2011 Professor of History Institut für Neuere...
Benedictine Abbey of Saint John / Photo by Wladyslaw, Wikimedia Commons The history of the Christian churches as...