Tag: Early Modern History
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The Four Humours: Understandings of the Body in Medieval Medicine
Written by Amy Hendrie. Popular conceptions of the Middle Ages as cruel and gruesome extend to ideas about medieval medicine. But the medieval understanding of the body was steeped in history, and likely extended into modernity more than one would think.
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Dark magic and Witchcraft – a reasonable fear? The Rationale behind Witchcraft Belief in Early Modern Europe
Written by Nikita Nandanwad. Witchcraft trials have traditionally been viewed as campaigns of irrational religious belief. Yet, recent scholarship has demonstrated the complexity behind witchcraft trials and the ways they were informed by conceptions of gender.
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Milton’s Eve and the roles of Women in Early Modern European Society
Written by Melissa Kane. Milton’s Paradise Lost offers insights into the roles of women in seventeenth-century European society.
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John Dee: Elizabeth’s Tudor ‘Wizard’
Written by Melissa Kane. A key advisor of Elizabeth I, early supporter of a British Empire, and student of the supernatural, the life of John Dee has somewhat fallen to the wayside of Tudor history, but what did he bring to Tudor life and its legacies?
