Nancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the
Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was …

In How Humans Cooperate, Richard E. Blanton and Lane F. Fargher take a new approach to
investigating human cooperation, developed from the vantage point of an" anthropological …

summary Early Christianity developed in a world where moral significance was often judged
based upon physical appearance alone. Exploring the manifestations of this ancient" …

2 Introduction highlights. 4 The grotesque style was discussed and imitated in England after
its revival in Renaissance Italy, for example, while the seventeenth-century English fashion …

The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when
arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge which extended into all …

In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central
role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to …

This paper describes the convergence of libraries, archives, and museums in Germany from
traditional brick-and-mortar institutions to a digital memory institution on the Internet. An …

Peter Sahlins's brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal
moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables …

Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of
misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators …

Italian Academies have typically been studied individually or in the context of specific cities,
leaving an important lacuna in the scholarship on Italian culture and early modernity. Cutting …