16th Century
Learning from Premodern Plagues
Renaissance Humanism
Sugar and Power in the Early Modern World
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.
The Making of the Bible, 400-1700
Religious Wars in Early Modern Europe
The Inquisition
Searching for Ophelia in the Archive
What does the archive offer for the exploration of Shakespeare in the digital age?
The Discovery of Chocolate
Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Crossing Borders Across Venetian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1500-1800
How did the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Venetian empires interact with each other? How did their competition over southeastern Europe shape these borderlands and their inhabitants?