Imagine traveling without a GPS or the Google Maps app. A new digital project will provide a window into the ways that people traveled the world in early modern times. With a grant from the ...

During the early modern period, the predominant model of the body placed great importance on melancholy. It was closely tied to black bile, one of the four fluids essential to health (a.k.a ...

THIS is an atlas on new lines, for it deals only with modern Europe, and, except for a few general maps, makes no attempt to illustrate the historical evolution of the British Empire. The size of ...

Scholars often debate the future of the modern system of nation-states, but rarely do they study its origins. This groundbreaking book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious and ...

And that could be one of the reasons early modern humans ultimately supplanted the Neanderthals across Europe about 40,000 years ago, according to research led by scientists in France, including ...

Now her research has inspired a period film, The Devil’s Bath, based on her latest research and book, Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). The ...

Stone Tools Found in Ukraine May Be the Oldest Evidence of Early Humans in Europe The 1.4-million-year-old rocks may have belonged to Homo erectus, and they shed light on migrations of human ...

Modern humans migrated into Europe in three waves: 54,000, 45,000 and 42,000 years ago, a new study claims.

The project studies the importance of imagination for early modern (1500-1650) political rhetoric in Paris, London and Madrid. It investigates rhetorical strategies for visualizing things and events, ...

Blondie taught us about the dangers of having a heart of glass, but for some people, that wasn’t a metaphorical problem. King Charles VI of France (1368-1422) literally believed he was made of ...