During the devastating plague outbreaks of 17th-century Europe, the disease did not strike equally. A recent bioarchaeological study of plague victims from a hospital cemetery in Basel, Switzerland, ...
Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination (Oxford University Press, April 2025) takes the general reader on a fascinating tour of seventeenth-century thought, exploring how this time period shaped ...
Little biographical information has survived about Wautier, and it is not even clear when she was born, though recent research points to around 1614, meaning she was in her mid-70s when she died in ...
The slab of metal came out of the ground dirty and corroded after more than 300 years in the soil of rural Maryland. It was slightly concave, about the size of a cafeteria tray, and didn’t look like ...