This Element examines the material and social mechanisms that enacted mobility in the Renaissance and offers a new way to understand the period's dynamism, creativity, and conflict.  Meer

This Element examines the life and legacy of the sixteenth century Ethiopian intellectual Täsfa S?eyon. It reconstructs his formative years, scrutinizes his editio princeps of the Ge'ez Gospels, and traces his modern influence, erasure, and rediscovery by later generations of Western orientalists, Ethiopian writers, and Catholic thinkers.  Meer

This Element provides an approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease. It analyses how knowledge about the Great Pox was transmitted to a literate and a wider public through performance and the circulation of popular prints.  Meer

This Element examines the life and legacy of the sixteenth century Ethiopian intellectual Täsfa S?eyon. It reconstructs his formative years, scrutinizes his editio princeps of the Ge'ez Gospels, and traces his modern influence, erasure, and rediscovery by later generations of Western orientalists, Ethiopian writers, and Catholic thinkers.  Meer

Material culture scholarship explores licensing, permissions, and patronage dynamics, highlighting the estrangement of works from authors. This Element explores early modern authors' goodbyes, translators' duties, and censorship's impact on works.  Meer

The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict known as the Italian Wars between 1494 and 1559. The authors show breadth and depth of the opportunities, roles, impact, and influence that certain women had to shape the course of the conflict in both wartime activities and in peace-making.  Meer

This Element takes a global expansive and locally rooted approach to answering how early moderns experienced sense and space by focusing on 4 cities as its key examples:  Florence, Amsterdam, Boston, and Manila.  Meer

During the Renaissance, measuring played a critical role in shaping trade, material production, warfare, legal studies, and even our understanding of the heavens and hell.  Meer

This Element represents the systematic study of the risks taken by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It classifies scores of documented examples of losses into production risks and reception risks and discusses risk-taming mechanisms operating society-wide.  Meer

This Element takes a global expansive and locally rooted approach to answering how early moderns experienced sense and space by focusing on 4 cities as its key examples:  Florence, Amsterdam, Boston, and Manila.  Meer

This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. It seeks to provide a wider context of French plague care to better understand the systems used at Provence in the 1720s.  Meer

This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. It seeks to provide a wider context of French plague care to better understand the systems used at Provence in the 1720s.  Meer

The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict known as the Italian Wars between 1494 and 1559. The authors show breadth and depth of the opportunities, roles, impact, and influence that certain women had to shape the course of the conflict in both wartime activities and in peace-making.  Meer

Material culture scholarship explores licensing, permissions, and patronage dynamics, highlighting the estrangement of works from authors. This Element explores early modern authors' goodbyes, translators' duties, and censorship's impact on works.  Meer

This Element represents the systematic study of the risks taken by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It classifies scores of documented examples of losses into production risks and reception risks and discusses risk-taming mechanisms operating society-wide.  Meer

This Element provides an approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease. It analyses how knowledge about the Great Pox was transmitted to a literate and a wider public through performance and the circulation of popular prints.  Meer