15th Century

14th Century, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century

Learning from Premodern Plagues

DCCAuthor
October 13, 2021

14th Century, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century

Renaissance Humanism

DCCAuthor
October 4, 2021

13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, Collection Essays

Politics, Poetry, and Religious Life in Late-Medieval England after the Black Death

Woodcut image of three skeletons dancing with one another above a fourth, who is rising out of the grave to join them. On the far left of the image a fifth skeleton plays a pipe.

newberry
January 6, 2021

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta

Written and compiled by Lia Markey, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, and Stephanie Reitzig as a companion to the 2020 Newberry exhibition and book (Northwestern University Press) by the same title. Entries here have been adapted from texts by James R. Akerman, Ikumi Croccol, Olivia Dill, Christopher Fletcher, Marisa Guo, Elisa J. Jones, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Stephanie Lee, Risa Puleo, Sandra Racek, and John Sullivan.

newberry
June 3, 2020

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

The Making of the Bible, 400-1700

newberry
May 27, 2020

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

The Inquisition

newberry
June 14, 2018

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, Collection Essays

The Medieval Spice Trade

How were spices used by medieval Europeans, and why were spices so valuable in medieval Europe?

newberry
March 28, 2017

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

Religious Change and the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1750

What did the rise and expansion of the Ottoman Empire look like in the eyes of European observers? How did the Ottomans shape the political and religious history of early modern Europe?

newberry
March 15, 2017

13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, Collection Essays

The Legacy of the Middle Ages in the Renaissance and Beyond

newberry
May 13, 2016

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, Collection Essays

Daily Life in Early Modern France

How did handwritten documents shape life in the early modern period? What can these documents tell us about the experiences of early modern people?

newberry
August 28, 2015

15th Century, Collection Essays

Wives and Wenches, Sinners and Saints: Women in Medieval Europe

What did medieval Christians believe about women’s nature and social roles? How did they express these beliefs in illustrations, poetry, and religious writings?

newberry
May 14, 2012