Using primary sources students will explore the impact, management and changing definitions of disease in various pre-modern societies. We look at disease in the context of encounters, environmental ...

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A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past. This book traces the history of botanical ...

Mona Lisa. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Beyoncé. Renaissance art is popular in contemporary culture, and it has inspired artists and their publics around the globe since at least the 1960s. However, ...

Architecture, design, theory, engineering, construction, and the related arts, 1400-1600. The architectural production of the Italian Renaissance in its historical, cultural, social, and economic ...

This lecture focuses on the visual culture of the Islamic world from its origins in pre-Islamic Arabia to the Mongol Invasions in the thirteenth century. The course introduces the main themes, events, ...

Examines Renaissance epic poetry in relationship to themes of exile, empire, and collective identity. Studies the generic traditions of epic and romance, practices and modes of classical imitation, ...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) left a voluminous legacy of writings. Despite his influence on the early modern period, his correspondence, manuscripts, and publications in natural philosophy remain ...

The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the early Church, Christian thinkers had ...

Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of ...

Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several national literatures, or genres, medieval and early modern period. See synopsis for more details. Satisfies Area I requirement for ...

This comparative volume examines the sustained contribution of migrants to Europe’s literatures, social cultures, and arts over centuries. Europe has never been a continent bounded by the seas that ...