History of the Book

I work on medieval and early modern Italian and French literature with a particular focus on violence and Nature.

Kim Võ is a doctoral student in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning. His research focuses on the negotiation between modernization and museification of the built environment in the nineteenth-century Italian peninsula, specifically...

Ian studies images and objects at the intersection of faith, artistic practice, and intellectual culture in northern Europe during the long seventeenth century. Drawing upon prints, illustrated books, and representations of the natural world, Ian’s work...

Eric Moses Gurevitch is a historian of science, technology, and medicine in the medieval and early modern periods, with a focus on South Asia and the Indian Ocean. His research tells a global history in which unexpected voices, practices, and events come...

Courtney is broadly interested in early modern disability and medicine. Her Master’s thesis focused on an underutilized religious commentary written by a blind woman in 16th century Germany. The main purpose of her thesis was to better understand the...

• Regions: Eastern Mediterranean; Egypt; Middle East; Ottoman Empire
• Time periods: 14th and 15th centuries
• Themes: History of Art and Architecture; History of the Book; History of Education; History of Religion; Intellectual History; Philosophy

• Regions: China; Eurasia; Europe; Iberia; Japan; Low Countries
• Times: 16th to 18th centuries
• Themes: Cultural History; History of the Book; History of Religion; History of Science; Intellectual History

Daniel Said Monteiro received his Ph.D. in...

Jennifer Nelson studies early modern art and cultural production from Europe and its outposts. At Radcliffe she is linking a new theory of art’s emergent properties in the Renaissance with an account of these properties’ misuse in the late 16th century...

• Regions: Britain; England; Europe; Italy
• Times: 15th to 17th centuries
• Themes: British Literature; Classical Reception; Early Modern Drama; History of the Book; Italian Literature; Latin Literature; Reformation; Renaissance; Shakespeare