This volume is the first to adopt systematically a comparative approach to the role of ancient texts and traditions in early modern scholarship, science, medici

The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred

During the early modern period, the emergence of what ultimately became modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discou

Forbidden Desire is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman worl

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