Category Archives: Early Modern World

Renaissance Academies as Social Networks

Posted on January 10, 2013 by briansandberg

The academies of Renaissance Italy are being compared with internet social networks, such as Facebook. A major collaborative research project on The Italian Academies 1525-1700:The First Intellectual Networks of Early Modern Europe, is producing new findings on the complex world … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival Research, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, Italian History, Renaissance Art and History | 2 Comments

History of the Book Lecture

Posted on January 5, 2013 by briansandberg

The Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies is hosting the annual History of the Book Lecture. Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern University), “Toward Queerer Book History” History of the Book Lecture Newberry Library, Towner Fellows Lounge, Friday, 11 January 11 2013 at 2 pm … Continue reading →

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Women and War

Posted on December 6, 2012 by briansandberg

Warfare is often assumed to be a purely masculine sphere of human activity. This gendered conception is a myth. Women have historically been participants in diverse aspects of warfare: recruitment, training, mobilization, strategic formulation, military intelligence, war finance, logistical services, … Continue reading →

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Interview with Hervé Drévillon

Posted on December 5, 2012 by briansandberg

Historian Hervé Drévillon has launched a new Institut des Études sur la Guerre et la Paix (Institute for the Study of War and Peace) at Université de Paris I. Research centers and institutes at major universities are engines for original research … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Research, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, French History, History of Violence, Paris History, Strategy and International Politics, Uncategorized, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World | 1 Comment

The Cultural History of Warfare

Posted on November 18, 2012 by briansandberg

“The cultural history of war, then, is here to stay.”  So concluded Rob Citino in an impressive historiographical essay, which can be considered the first major article of military history to be published in a generation by the American Historical … Continue reading →

Posted in Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, Historiography and Social Theory, History of Violence, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World | Leave a comment

Symposium on English and Dutch in the Early Modern World

Posted on September 21, 2012 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago is holding a Symposium on English and Dutch in the Early Modern World. The symposium will be held on Friday, October 19, 2012, 9 am – 3 pm, in the … Continue reading →

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Lee Palmer Wandel Lecture at the Newberry Library

Posted on September 21, 2012 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago hosts an annual Lecture in Early Modern History. This year’s lecture is being delivered by Lee Palmer Wandel, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, on … Continue reading →

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Port Cities and the Slave Trade

Posted on August 2, 2012 by briansandberg

In the early modern period, many port cities were intimately connected with the slave trade. Ports ringing the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, and other bodies of water acted as harbors for slave ships and resale markets for human … Continue reading →

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Samurai Boys in Italy

Posted on August 1, 2012 by briansandberg

Italian archives continue to offer up wonderful evidence for historians of the early modern world. The rich records of Italian principalities, republics, merchants, and religious organizations offer some of the best sources for using World History approaches in the early … Continue reading →

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NEH Summer Institute on Mediterranean History

Posted on July 13, 2012 by briansandberg

I am currently in Barcelona participating in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute on Networks and Knowledge: Synthesis and Innovation in the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Medieval Mediterranean. This month-long faculty seminar provides an opportunity for university and college professors … Continue reading →

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