Mazzanti, Giuseppe. Un imperatore musulmano. Il Liber de sceleribus et infelicitate perfidi turchi ac de spurcitia et feditate gentis et secte sue (1467/1468) di Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Tristan Vigliano

Moran, Bruce T. Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Janice Liedl

Nevola, Fabrizio. Street Life in Renaissance Italy.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Jennifer Strtak

Nummedal, Tara. Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Kevin Siena

Pietrzyk-Reeves, Dorota. Polish Republican Discourse in the Sixteenth Century. Trans. Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Tomasz Grusiecki

Pirillo, Paolo, and Lorenzo Tanzini, eds. Terre di confine tra Toscana, Romagna e Umbria. Dinamiche politiche, assetti amministrativi, società locali (secoli XII–XVI).

Article | Contribuidor(es): Elena Brizio

Ritchey, Sara, and Sharon Strocchia, eds. Gender, Health and Healing, 1250–1550.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Lori Woods

Rowe, Erin Kathleen. Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Bianca Lopez

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. J. F. Bernard and Paul Yachnin.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Jonathan Locke Hart

Starkey, Lindsay. Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond: Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Salvatore Ciriacono

Steinberg, Leo. Michelangelo’s Painting: Selected Essays. Ed. Sheila Schwartz.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Jonathan Locke Hart

Stewart, Alan, ed. The Broadview Anthology of Tudor Drama.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Jonathan Locke Hart

Swan, Claudia. Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Elizabeth Rice Mattison

Teskey, Gordon. Spenserian Moments.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Jonathan Locke Hart

Experiencing the Environment in the Early Modern Period: Seasons, Senses, and Health

Article | Contribuidor(es): Nicholas Terpstra

Approaches to Seasonality in Premodern Italy

Article | Contribuidor(es): Roisin Cossar, Cecilia Hewlett

In this article, two historians of medieval and early modern Italy explore the impact of seasonal rhythms and routines on the social structures and practices of rural communities in central and northern Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. We also investigate how rural...

Air Quality and the Senses in Early Modern Italy

Article | Contribuidor(es): Julia Rombough

Using printed and archival records, this article analyzes the sensory practices associated with air quality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Air pollution was a prime concern for early modern Italians, particularly in urban centres where industry, density, and frenetic sensescapes...

“Saucy Stink”: Smells, Sanitation, and Conflict in Early Modern London

Article | Contribuidor(es): Alexandra Logue

This article examines olfactory offenses in early modern London. It explores how inhabitants managed causes of malodorous air, focusing on common nuisances stemming from everyday household practices like laundry and waste management. Clotheslines were hung up between lodgings, households disposed...

Plague Time: Space, Fear, and Emergency Statecraft in Early Modern Italy

Article | Contribuidor(es): Nicholas A. Eckstein

Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth- and seventeenth-century policies were the first steps towards an authoritarian paradigm...

From Carnival to Pious City: Scenes of Urban Life in Leandro Bassano’s The Months

Article | Contribuidor(es): Anca-Delia Moldovan

This work examines the urban environment depicted by Leandro Bassano in his cycle of the Twelve Months during February and March, and the notable iconographic shift it presents with respect to the typical imagery of farming labours. Leandro represented the themes of Carnival in February and Lent...