She also has expertise on the popularity of poetry in print during the early modern period. Mary works on the continuities between the medieval and the early modern, especially in relation to the ...

Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period This volume offers Ingrid Baumgärtner's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time ...

Together the essays present a clear picture of what we know about deviant speech in medieval culture, a picture that has begun to achieve the depth and richness of scholarship on slander in the early ...

Explore the history and culture of the early modern period. What was life like in the age of da Vinci? What is the basis of our understanding of concepts such as nature, romance, freedom, and ...

From Papyrus to Print: The History of the Book' and 'Reading the Middle Ages and Early Modern period: Palaeography, Codicology and Sources' are taught in the magnificent surroundings of the John ...

The Modern period in Japanese literature overlaps the reigns of three Emperors: Meiji (1868-1912), Taishō (1912-1926), and early Shōwa (1926-1945). Similar to American writers, Japanese writers of the ...

People’s living conditions continued to affect their health in the early modern period. The range and quality of people’s diet depended on their wealth. Although access to water supplies ...

Early modern towns grew quickly ... This made people’s clothes and shoes very dirty. As in the medieval period, houses in towns were often three storeys tall with overhanging ‘jetties’.

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Home of the Year returned to RTÉ One this evening with judges Hugh Wallace, Amanda Bone, and new addition Siobhan Lam. This ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...