These selected studies on sixteenth and eighteenth centuries European collections of scientific instruments, which were part of the princely 'wunderkammern', delineate an up-to-date-panorama about the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.
In this revisionist history of of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has been shape…
Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England
by Read, Sophie
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Elizabethan costume design and construction
by Huang, Helen Q., Hoem, Emily, Hunt, Kelsey
What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation.
