«A Marvellous and Strange Event» Racconti di nascite mostruose nell'Inghil…

In early modern England, the birth of a human being with congenital physical deformities was an event which aroused horror and fascination, disgust and morbid curiosity. In a time when modern science was taking its first steps, this kind of prodigy sometimes appeared as a sort of divine punishment for a moral fault, sometimes as a bizarre pastime, or political weapon, or a pre-medical investiga…

A Companion to the Cavendishes

"The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century. It discusses the writings of individuals including William and Margaret Cavendish, and William's daughters Jan…

“Still Blundering into Sense”. Maria Edgeworth, her context, her legacy

“Still Blundering into Sense”. Maria Edgeworth, her context, her legacy. This collection of international contributions, as well as celebrating Maria Edgeworth’s 250th anniversary, proposes some further investigation on two fundamental aspects of her thought and legacy, still little examined in depth: her interest in the education of the young (and of the adults supposed to educate them) …

Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe : Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Surv…

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Translation und Marginalisierung = Intersektionale Perspektiven auf Übersetz…

Übersetzungen spiegeln und bestätigen die Normen der zielkulturellen Mehrheitsgesellschaft und ihrer machthabenden Instanzen, wohingegen Anliegen von Minderheiten meist unberücksichtigt bleiben. Diesen oft übersehenen Zusammenhang zwischen Translation und Marginalisierung leuchtet der interdisziplinäre Open Access-Band für die Frühe Neuzeit systematisch aus und rückt jene Menschen, Figu…

Memory before Modernity; Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe

Banyak mahasiswa memori berasumsi bahwa praktik memori berubah secara dramatis sekitar tahun 1800; volume ini menunjukkan bahwa ada banyak kontinuitas serta perubahan. Cara-cara pra-modern dalam menegosiasikan ingatan tentang rasa sakit dan kehilangan, misalnya, memang sangat berbeda dengan yang ada di Barat modern. Namun dengan memeriksa praktik memori dan menarik bukti dari Inggris, Prancis, …

Memory and Identity in the Learned World; Community Formation in the Early Mo…

Memori dan Identitas dalam Dunia Pembelajaran menawarkan akun yang rinci dan bervariasi tentang pembentukan komunitas di dunia belajar dan sains awal modern. Buku ini melacak bagaimana identitas kolektif, memori institusional, dan cara pengingat membantu membentuk komunitas ilmiah dan belajar. Studi kasus dalam buku ini menganalisis bagaimana komunitas ilmu pengetahuan dan individu mempersembah…

Medieval Mount Athos between Wealth and Poverty

Studi yang dikumpulkan ini didedikasikan untuk pusat monastik Ortodoks di Gunung Athos selama Abad Pertengahan menggambarkan gambaran yang menarik tentang komunitas monastik di Gunung Suci sebagai pelaku ekonomi. Kepemilikan arsip yang kaya di Gunung Athos memungkinkan baik untuk pengamatan mendetail terhadap aktivitas ekonomi maupun penelusuran tren jangka panjang. Tidak hanya biara Hagiorite …

Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500 - 1750

Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the North and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the South. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women’s experie…

Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany

Recent witchcraft historiography, particularly where it concerns the gender of the witch-suspect, has been dominated by theories of social conflict in which ordinary people colluded in the persecution of the witch sect. The reconstruction of the Eichstätt persecutions (1590-1631) in this book shows that many witchcraft episodes were imposed exclusively ‘from above’ as part of a programme o…