Women in early modern Europe collected recipes for balms, distillations and elixirs to treat all manner of ailments. Science Photo Library/Getty Images Hannah Woolley is often called the Martha ...

Although Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture and Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture have historically focused on medieval Europe, we have expanded ... story of a manuscript codex, ...

Early modern English convents, exiled in Europe after Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, shed light on nuns' experiences of loneliness. The convents were subject to traditional rules of ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe ... the role of the early modern humans ...

"Routine" infanticide of newborns by married parents in early modern Europe was a much more widespread practice than previously thought, a new book posits. This fresh insight sits at the heart of ...

Many congratulations to him. Kaarlo will be researching: Imagination, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Early Modern Europe (1500-1650) The project studies the importance of imagination for early modern ...

‘Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544–1669’ highlights the ways in which Turkish books served as a key source of knowledge and inspiration for European ...

Explore the history and culture of the early ... Europe and the wider world, and how shifting ideas about religion and science have changed the way we understand our place in the universe. You will be ...