Making Foreigners in Pre-Modern Central Europe

Beyond Dispassion: Emotions and Judicial Decision-Making in Modern Europe

The conventional image of a judge as a dispassionate person continues to prevail in both popular culture and academic scholarship, despite influential recent research that has clearly demonstrated the inevitable impact of emotions on judicial decision-making. This article provides a historical perspective on what Terry Maroney has called »the persistent cultural script of judicial dispassion« a...

Institutions and Economic Development in Early Modern Central Europe

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Pre-Columbian Floristic Legacies in Modern Homegardens of Central Amazonia

Historical ecologists have demonstrated legacy effects in apparently wild landscapes in Europe, North America, Mesoamerica, Amazonia, Africa and Oceania. People live and farm in archaeological sites today in many parts of the world, but nobody has looked for the legacies of past human occupations in the most dynamic areas in these sites: homegardens. Here we show that the useful flora of modern...

The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560–1640

Thomas Bartholin's De morbis biblicis, first published in 1672, proved an immediate success and went through four editions during the next twenty-five years. It contains no less than twenty-seven short chapters on diseases and "supernatural" events taken not only from the Old and New Testaments, but also from the Talmud. Bartholin's work is here made available for the first time in English in a...

Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe