Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England by Howard Marchitello, and: 
         The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World by Elizabeth Fowler and Roland Greene, and: 
         The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England by M. Lindsay Kaplan

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.

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

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing ◽

10.3366/ijhac.2015.0140 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 95-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

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.

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Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton, and Charles Burnett. The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe (The History of Oriental Studies, vol. 3).

History of Universities ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198835509.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 206-209

Author(s):

Jan Toomer

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Early Modern England ◽

Early Modern Europe ◽

Self Study ◽

History Of ◽

Modern Europe ◽

Oriental Studies

This chapter presents a review of The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe edited by Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton, and Charles Burnett. The book features a collection of essays that grew out of a conference with a similar title held in Leiden in 2013, but represents a thoroughly updated and expanded body of work. The title words ‘and Learning’ emphasize an important feature: whereas most existing treatments of Arabic studies in this period concentrate on their pursuit in the formal setting of the universities, several of the contributors examine how the language was acquired in other contexts. Notable in this respect is Mordechai Feingold’s ‘Learning Arabic in Early Modern England’, which illustrates the importance of self-study, even in the universities.

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