Lodestones are dull, lumpy, and slate-gray, but their “magnetic intelligence” made them fabulously expensive. Magnets have souls....
Early Modern
Behind every manuscript map lies an individual’s hand. Originally published by the Harvard Map Collection, republished with...
England became one of the greatest producers of new Catholic relics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
A GPS for sixteenth-century travelers. By Mary Alexandra Agner Like many other familiar objects, the road map...
Born on July 18, 1635, this polymath broke ground in fields ranging from pneumatics, microscopy, mechanics and...
A new national imaginary emerged that legitimized the task of redefinition. With variations, a concern with origins...
Though the 17th-century whaling station of Smeerenburg was in reality, at its height, just a few dwellings...
How did the Ottomans shape the political and religious history of early modern Europe? Originally published by...
The splintering of the medieval church ushered in a volatile new era of increased anxiety, tension, and...
Although magic and witchcraft had existed since antiquity, early modern Europe underwent a growth in anxiety about...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
Demons and artists, it seems, pull from the same bag of tricks. They take ordinary matter and...
In the 17th century, early modern European medical theory had an impact upon Islamic medicine through the...
After their victory in the first Opium War, the British acquired Hong Kong under the 1842 Treaty...
The new vistas of China available after the development of the East India trade attracted many Chinese...
In early modern Sweden bathing was a part of everyday life. There were public and private hot-steam...
The word aphrodisiac only began to be used to describe such foods in the late seventeenth century....
Examining the cultural heritage of Early Modern Europe and its influence in contemporary thought. By Angel Solis,...
By the end of the fifteenth century, the majority of Western European cities had a printing press....
Players moving pieces along a track to be first to reach a goal was the archetypal board...
The turmoil of the English Civil War in the 1640s and 1650s generated political and institutional upheaval,...
Their original name came from their belief in economic equality. Introduction The Diggers were a group of Protestant radicals in England,...
Captain Ching Shih stares death in the face, as she has done many times in her life....
These networks formed as a result of the dispersal of Jewish society over great distances starting in...
The Reconquest set the scene for the rise of Spain and the end of Islamic rule on...
Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the Stuart...
Starting with the medieval poor/rich-topics in the Aquinian tradition of the theological economy of charity, following a...
The vanishing of John Knight and his three companions. Introduction On June 19, 1606, John Knight ran...
The issue of inter-state relations illustrates the political relevance of changing concepts of borders in early modern...
The Boston Tea Party, a foundational moment of political rebellion, was a protest against tea, and tea...