Early Modern Period

Guide to swords in the Renaissance Period & Early Modern Period, including the claymore, flamberge, and estoc!

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A chemise or shift became widely used by both men and women in Europe in the medieval period and lasted for a few centuries. Even in the 21st century, some women wear similar lingerie but, of course, the cut, design, and adornments are different. In this article, we’ll talk about the chemise worn during the Early Modern era – how did it look like? what embellishments were popular? what fabric did they use? what design of shirts was typical? and so on. The 16th-17th century brought a lot of…

Украина1657-1659 - Category:Maps of the history of Ukraine in the early modern period - Wikimedia Commons

Boy's shirt of linen embroidered with blue silk, made in England, ca. 1540

In this second of three planned volumes of Jewish Literary Cultures, David Stern explores diverse texts and topics in medieval and early modern Jewish literature and book history.

The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a plan view. Engraving by John Haynes, 1751. / Photo courtesy Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Exploring the history of the “physic garden” and its modern manifestatio…

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Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was a dutch philosopher of portuguese sephardic jewish origin. One of the foremost exponents of 17th-century rationalism and one of the early and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered "one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period." Inspired by the groundbreaking ideas of Descartes, Spinoza became a...