EarlyModernEurope:IntellectualCulture,Science,Medicine,andReligion
(withProf.Ross)
Early Modern Colloquium
1. Eugene F. Rice and Anthony Grafton, The Foundation of Early Modern Europe (New
York, 1994).
a. John Jeffries Martin, “Introduction - The Renaissance: between myth and history,”
in John Jeffries Martin (ed.), The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad (New York,
2003), 1–23.
2. Christopher S. Celenza, The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s
Legacy (Baltimore, 2006).
3. Sarah Gwyneth Ross, The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and
England (Cambridge, MA, 2009).
4. Natalie Zemon Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford, 1975).
5. Ethan H. Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge, 2005).
6. Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and
Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1997).
7. Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility of Science in Seventeenth-Century
England (Chicago, 1994).
8. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge,
2009).
a. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, “An Unacknowledged Revolution Revisited,” The
American Historical Review, 107.1 (2002), 87–105.
b. Adrian Johns, “How to Acknowledge a Revolution,” The American Historical
Review, 107.1 (2002), 106–125.
c. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, “[How to Acknowledge a Revolution]: Reply,” The
American Historical Review, 107.1 (2002), 126–128.
9. Anthony Pagden, European Encounters with the New World (New Haven, 1993).
a. Patricia Seed, “‘Are These Not Also Men?’: The Indians’ Humanity and Capacity
for Spanish Civilisation,” Journal of Latin American Studies, 25.3 (1993),
629–652.
10. Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (New York, 1999).
a. Linda Gordon vs. Joan Scott
11. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago, 1996).
12. Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment
and the Making of Modernity (Oxford, 2001).
13. Gary Kates, ed. The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies
(Routledge, 1997)
Early Modern Medicine
14. Nancy G. Siraisi, Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine (Chicago, 1990).
15. Mary Lindemann, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1999).
16. Meyer Friedman and Gerald W. Friedland, Medicine’s 10 Greatest Discoveries (New
Haven, 1998).
17. Article Selection
a. Patrick Wallis, “Plagues, Morality and the Place of Medicine in Early Modern
England,” English Historical Review, 71.490 (2006), 1–24.
b. Patrick Wallis, “Consumption, retailing, and medicine in early-modern London,”
Economic History Review, 61.1 (2008), 26–53.
c. William Eamon, “Plagues, Healers, and Patients in Early Modern Europe,”
Renaissance Quarterly, 52.2 (1999), 474–486.
18. Sandra Cavallo and David Gentilcore (eds.), Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early
Modern Italian Medicine (Malden, MA, 2008).
a. Nancy Siraisi, “History, Antiquarianism and Medicine: The Case of Girolamo
Mercuriale,” Journal of the History of Ideas 64/2 (2003): 231-251.
19. Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French, The Great Pox: The French Disease
in Renaissance Europe (New Haven, 1997).
20. Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland, and Hans de Waardt (eds.), Illness and Healing
Alternatives in Western Europe, Studies in the Social History of Medicine (1997).
a. David Gentilcore, “Was There a ‘Popular Medicine’ in Early Modern Europe?,”
Folklore, 115.2 (2004), 151–166.
21. Samuel Kline Cohn, Cultures of Plague: Medical Thought at the End of the Renaissance.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Early Modern Science
22. Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early
Modern Italy (Berkeley, 1994).
23. Deborah E Harkness, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Rrevolution
(New Haven, 2007).
24. Pamela H Smith and Paula Findlen, Merchants & Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in
Early Modern Europe (New York, NY, 2002).
25. Mario Biagioli, Galileo, Courtier: the Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
(Chicago, 1993).
26. Mario Biagioli, Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy (Chicago,
2006).
27. William R Shea and Mariano Artigas, Galileo in Rome: the Rise and Fall of a Troublesome
Genius (New York; Oxford, 2005).
28. William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer, The Sciences in Enlightened Europe
(Chicago, 1999).
29. David Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), God & Numbers: Historical Essays on the
Encounter Between Christianity and Science (Berkeley, 1986).
30. David Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), When Science & Christianity Meet
(Chicago, 2003).
Books from other classes (religion, early imperial narratives)
31. David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick (eds.), The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800
(New York, 2009).
32. Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe,
900-1900 (Cambridge, 2006).
33. Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (New Haven, 2009).
34. Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries (Baltimore, 1992).
35. Stuart B. Schawrtz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Toleration and Salvation in the Iberian
Atlantic World (New Haven, 2008).
36. Susan Brigden, New Worlds, Lost Worlds (New York, 2002).
37. Bruce Gordon, Calvin (New Haven, 2009).
38. Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (New Haven, 1998).
39. Benjamin J. Kaplan, Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in
Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, MA, 2007).
40. Gary Macy, Treasures from the Storeroom: Medieval Religion and the Eucharist
(Collegeville, MN, 1999).
41. Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (New Haven, 2004).
42. Ulinka Rublack, Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2005).