Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature examines the concepts and role of
women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to …

Arms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written
by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person …

We used to think it was the job of a historian of Spanish science to combat the negative
evaluations of Hispanic cultures that came to be known as the Black Legend. Paradoxically …

This book uses the work of Bolognese physician and anatomist Gaspare Tagliacozzi to
explore the social and cultural history of early modern surgery. It discusses how Italian and …

This book is the result of a 'happy accident'. In early 2007, I was conducting research in the
Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo in Lisbon thanks to a postdoctoral award from the …

Through a close study of Santa Dorotea, the first hospital in Florence designed to care for
the severely mentally ill, this chapter demonstrates that histories of early modern mental …

This essay charts key approaches to the history of disease by focusing in particular on how
historians of early modern Europe have examined venereal disease, commonly called the …

Early modern constructions of gender reach beyond the human in ways that complicate the
male/female binary and efface the border between beings and environment. This essay …

This book studies the Early Modern Spanish broadsheet, the tabloid newspaper of its day
which functioned to educate, entertain, and indoctrinate its readers, much like today's" fake …

The recent discovery of a manuscript has allowed historians to understand the medical
routine in a hospital known as the Schneidhaus in Augsburg between the sixteenth and …