Animal Passions and Human Sciences: Shame, Blushing and Nakedness in Early Modern Europe and the New World

1999 ◽  
pp. 26-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
New World ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Modern Europe

Feminine Evil and Witchcraft

Evil ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 264-272
Author(s):  
Sarah K. Pinnock
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
New World ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Crop Failure ◽  
The World ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Europe

The brief Reflection looks at the history of witches in both early modern Europe and the New World. Thousands of women were condemned as witting or unwitting sources of physical and metaphysical evil. Witches were blamed for a variety of misfortunes including illness, crop failure, and the deaths of babies or mothers during childbirth. Evils committed by witches were objects of lurid fascination attributed to demonic forces, documented by monks, priests, and church authorities. Eroticized accusations reflected profound misogyny and suspicion toward those who did not conform to the patriarchal norms of church and society. Many of these witches were put to death in horrible ways, thereby adding rather than subtracting from the evils in the world.

Mapping Knowledge Exchange in Early Modern Europe: Intellectual and Technological Geographies and Network Representations

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Van Den Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
New World ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Spatial Distributions ◽  
Virtual Networks ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
The Republic

This paper discusses the development of digital intellectual and technological geographies showing spatial distributions of information and proposes to combine these with network representations of actors and documents relevant for the history knowledge exchange in Early Modern Europe. The amount of technical and fortification drawings that were copied throughout Europe and the New World and the different nature of networks in which they were exchanged raises the question whether they belonged to the Republic of Letters, as some authors claim. We argue that instead of trying to explain knowledge exchange in Early Modern Europe by focusing on The Republic of Letters as one entity consisting of scholars , it might be more useful to reconstruct the spatial distribution of actors and of (non-)textual documents in virtual networks of knowledge. Inspired by the term “deep maps” coined by David Bodenhamer, we will introduce the concept of “deep networks” and explore the requirements for their future development. Hereto, we focus on the representation of historical evidence and of uncertainties in analyses of intellectual and technological letters and drawings and hybrid combinations of these.

A New World Order: the Spanish Campaign for Precedenge in Early Modern Europe

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-264
Author(s):  
Michael J. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Philip Ii ◽  
Charles V ◽  
Modern Europe

AbstractDuring the period 1558-1566, a major conflict erupted between Spanish and French ambassadors in Rome over the issue of national and monarchical precedence. This conflict reflected confusion about the transition of power between Charles V and Philip II and, more importantly, Spain's newfound sense of its greatness and destiny in the sixteenth century. Spanish ambassadors waged a propaganda campaign to try to change the accepted ranking of European crowns, with the Spanish Habsburgs moved to the top, but in the end their efforts failed. This failure exposes the limits of Spanish power, especially in Italy, where they have traditionally been considered dominant in this period.

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