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Renaissance Studies Editorial Team

Journals: Amy Laurent, Editor
Daniel Pearce, Publisher

Message from Beatrice Rehl

I was so looking forward to meeting you at the RSA conference. Fortunately, technology enables us to connect by alternative means. Do send me your proposals in the fields of art history, intellectual history, and cultural history. I am also available to discuss you publication plans via telephone or Skype. I look forward to hearing from you!

From Under the Elbow to Pointing to the Palm: Learning “medicine by the book” in premodern China
26 February 2021, Marta Hanson 韓嵩
My article thus focuses on transformations in the main metaphors in ancient to late medieval titles of Chinese medical books used to convey to potential readers...

Projections of Desire and Design in Early Modern Caribbean Maps
12 January 2020, Angela Sutton and Chaz Yingling
There is a unique pleasure that comes from being involved in research that exceeds the expertise of any single scholar. Perhaps every historian entertains ideas...

Reforming Food and Eating in Protestant England, c. 1560 – c. 1640
06 November 2019, Eleanor Barnett
In my article, I bring together theological tracts with those concerning diet (dietaries and regimens) to illuminate a printed discourse in which English Protestants...

Violence, past and present
27 December 2019, Colin Rose
In my recent Cambridge University Press book, A Renaissance of Violence, I document a frightening rise in civil violence in the Italian city of Bologna in the The post Violence, past and present first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

Cannibals: When England Became Imperial
16 December 2019, Lauren Working
Why put a Native American object on the cover of a book about Jacobean politics? The image that appears on the cover of The Making of an Imperial Polity is The post Cannibals: When England Became Imperial first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

Money, Marriage, and Murder in Early Modern England
04 October 2019, Linda Levy Peck
I decided to write Women of Fortune when I discovered that Grace Bennet, widow of a rich mortgage and loan banker and mother of the Countess of Salisbury, had The post Money, Marriage, and Murder in Early Modern England first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....