In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to compile catalogues of them. Drawing on cultural, ...

Govind Sreenivasan's excellent new book is a major contribution to both the literature on peasants in European society and to Early Modern German History in general.' Sehepunkte '… achieves the rare ...

The book discusses that troubled legacy drawing on the discourses on Muslims originating in the European Middle Ages, and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands ...

I am a historian of early modern Europe, particularly the cultural history of early modern Italy. My first book, Venice’s Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean ...