Explores Natalie Zemon Davis's concept of history as a dialogue, not only with the past, but with other historians.

In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective social, cultu

For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important

David B. Ruderman's groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment h

Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by political historians