Discovery and Crisis in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...

The Performance of Roman Sacred Polyphonic Music in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: Evidence from Archival Sources

Love, madness and social order: love melancholy in France and England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

The concept of "illness's social course" can be approached from two stand-points. We can trace both the way the social world shapes the course of an illness and the way an illness' symptoms shape the social world. The purpose of this study is to locate the specific illness of love melancholy in a specific historical and social context, namely that of France and England in the late sixteenth and...

Undergraduate Section – Commendation

The turmoil experienced in European societies during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries fostered a widespread fear of the immediacy of the Devil, and contributed to the increasing number of demonic possession cases. This paper examines the demography of demoniacs, contemporary explanations, and the socio-cultural and religious functions possession played in the early modern period.

The Trotula: a medieval compendium of women's medicine

is the claim that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continental universities like Salerno and Leiden taught little but Paracelsianism. There is much useful material in this volume, and it will doubtless be consulted widely for biographical information on English royal doctors. But it is neither as comprehensive nor as accurate as one might wish, and the author's general understanding o...