Society and Culture in Early Modern France

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

Midwifery and medicine in early modern France: Louise Bourgeois

Flanders and served that most Catholic of rulers, Charles V, is not mentioned, although Colombo is given counter-reformation Catholic beliefs because he served the Pope, and Fabricius' religious views are deduced from his friendship with Sarpi and his membership of the Venetian intellectual elite. To his credit, Cunningham is honest in his admission of the theory's weaknesses. He allows that Co...

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

Famine, disease and the social order in early modern society

said to be "popular" (they wrote learned Latin texts) and both ofwhom lived in the fourteenth century. Seemingly more relevant figures from the previous century, some with French associations, like Arnald of Villanova, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Gilbertus Anglicus, and Roger Bacon, are either given less space or omitted. Hunt footnotes books, dissertations, and articles by the hundred, but again h...

Religion and urban society: the case of early modern Dublin.

IN 1698 THE ENGLISH ANTIQUARIAN AND TOPOGRAPHICAL ARTIST Francis Place visited Ireland. Travelling along the east coast, sketching as he went, he arrived at Dublin in early 1699. From a hill to the south-west of the city, he drew a prospect of the cityscape using a camera obscura. In some ways the result was not unlike contemporary prospects of large English cities such as London, York or Norwi...