Imagine traveling without a GPS or the Google Maps app. A new digital project will provide a window into the ways that people traveled the world in early modern times. With a grant from the ...

During the early modern period, the predominant model of the body placed great importance on melancholy. It was closely tied to black bile, one of the four fluids essential to health (a.k.a ...

THIS is an atlas on new lines, for it deals only with modern Europe, and, except for a few general maps, makes no attempt to illustrate the historical evolution of the British Empire. The size of ...

As early as the 1570s, France, on the prompting of Huguenots, established religiously mixed “chambers” to adjudicate conflicts between Protestants and Catholics. In Germany, Biberach and Augsburg ...

Modern humans arrived in the westernmost part of Europe 41,000 -- 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known, according to Jonathan Haws, Ph.D., professor and chair of the ...

And that could be one of the reasons early modern humans ultimately supplanted the Neanderthals across Europe about 40,000 years ago, according to research led by scientists in France, including ...

Now her research has inspired a period film, The Devil’s Bath, based on her latest research and book, Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). The ...

Anatomically modern humans are thought to have arrived in Europe 44,000–42,000 years ago. Physical evidence for early humans is scarce, and these dates are based largely on studies of stone tool ...