Category Archives: Early Modern World

Friendship in Premodern Europe

Posted on October 13, 2011 by briansandberg

This weekend, I am participating in a conference on Friendship in Premodern Europe (1300-1700), hosted by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) at the University of Toronto. This conference has been organized by historian Konrad Eisenbichler and the … Continue reading →

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The Antichrist in Politics

Posted on September 26, 2011 by briansandberg

Historians and students of the Reformation are very familiar with the role of the Antichrist in religious reformers’ thinking and religious politics. Bob Scribner’s classic study, For the Sake of Simple Folk, analyzes Lutheran print propaganda, including imagery of the … Continue reading →

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States of Early Modernity: Symposium at the Newberry

Posted on September 22, 2011 by briansandberg

Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies A Symposium and Workshop on States of Early Modernity Registration deadline: Friday, September 30 Symposium: Friday, October 14, 2011, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Leaders: Crystal Bartolovich, Syracuse University Victoria Kahn, University of California, Berkeley … Continue reading →

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Military Architecture Exhibition at the Newberry Library

Posted on September 9, 2011 by briansandberg

The Newberry Library in Chicago is currently presenting an exhibition on “Ballistics and Politics: Military Architecture Books at the Newberry.” The exhibition includes fortifications treatises, city plans, siege views, and related maps and documents from the early modern period. Some … Continue reading →

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DNA Evidence of the Black Death

Posted on August 30, 2011 by briansandberg

The Black Death is back in the news. Several teams of scientists have been working over the past decade to extract DNA evidence from bodies of victims of the Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe. The latest findings confirm several other … Continue reading →

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Gout Makes a Comeback

Posted on July 30, 2011 by briansandberg

Gout is making a comeback in the United States.  This disease causes serious inflammation, swelling, and pain—especially in the feet. During the medieval and early modern periods, gout was considered a disease of the nobility.  Manuscript correspondence of European nobles … Continue reading →

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Bread Riots in Mozambique

Posted on June 8, 2011 by briansandberg

Last year, high bread prices led to bread riots across Mozambique.  This summer promises to create similar economic conditions and protests. Early modern historians are very familiar with the dynamics of bread riots in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies.  A number … Continue reading →

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Attending to Early Modern Women CFP

Posted on April 22, 2011 by briansandberg

Call for Proposals Attending to Early Modern Women: Remapping Routes and Spaces June 21-June 23, 2012 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Attending to Early Modern Women, which has been held seven times at the University of Maryland since 1990, is moving to the … Continue reading →

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Nabil Matar Lecture

Posted on April 9, 2011 by briansandberg

Nabil Matar (Presidential Professor, Departments of English and History, the Religious Studies Program, University of Minnesota) “Henry Stubbe and the first use of Christian Arabic sources about Muhammad” Friday 15 April 2011, 4:00 pm Pick 016 University of Chicago Co-sponsored by … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Conference on Imperialism

Posted on April 8, 2011 by briansandberg

Between Friction and Collaboration: Imperial Elites and Local Powerbrokers Northwestern University, 15-16 April 2011 Northwestern University is hosting an upcoming conference on imperialism, entitled “Between Friction and Collaboration: Imperial Elites and Local Powerbrokers.” Graduate students at Northern Illinois University working … Continue reading →

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