15th-17th centuries
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Renske A. Hoff. Involving Readers: Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522–1546).
Drawing on dozens of annotated, amended surviving copies, Hoff offers a richly textured account of how early modern readers engaged with their Bibles on multiple levels.
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Sarah Peters Kernan and Helga Müllneritsch, eds. Culinary Texts in Context, 1500-1800: Manuscript Recipe Books in Early Modern Europe.
A study of recipe collections transmitted in early modern manuscripts produced in western Europe.
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Tyler W. Williams. If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi.
This book investigates how examining Hindi manuscripts as material texts rewrites the literary historiography of late medieval and early modern north India.
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Seth Kimmel. The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain.
Seth Kimmel’s book traces the exchange and uses of information collection and organization practices across Iberia and the Mediterranean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Nir Shafir. The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire.
This book traces why early modern Ottomans prioritized manuscripts as the desired form of social communication and explores their multifaceted and complex effects on the public sphere.
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Frances E. Dolan. Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth Century Agriculture.
The goal of Digging the Past is stated early with the question, “Is it possible to approach the seventeenth century, in its failed proposals and successful ventures, as a resource…
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Game Reviews: Astrologaster. Nyamyam, 2019. Elsinore. Golden Glitch, 2019.
Digital literature, in which a fictional tale unfolds while a player witnesses but minimally intervenes in its progress, is an obvious example. Two games which invoke early modern England, Elsinore…
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Stephen Orgel, Wit’s Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics.
If there are any preconceived notions of a poet who refrains from sassy defamation of a critic or an academic who manages not to say something controversial, Wit’s Treasury shatters…