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  1. Air Quality and the Senses in Early Modern Italy

    Air Quality and the Senses in Early Modern Italy

    Contributor(s): Julia Rombough

    Using printed and archival records, this article analyzes the sensory practices associated with air quality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Air pollution was a prime concern for early modern Italians, particularly in urban centres where industry, density, and frenetic sensescapes...

  2. “Saucy Stink”: Smells, Sanitation, and Conflict in Early Modern London

    “Saucy Stink”: Smells, Sanitation, and Conflict in Early Modern London

    Contributor(s): Alexandra Logue

    This article examines olfactory offenses in early modern London. It explores how inhabitants managed causes of malodorous air, focusing on common nuisances stemming from everyday household practices like laundry and waste management. Clotheslines were hung up between lodgings, households disposed...

  3. Plague Time: Space, Fear, and Emergency Statecraft in Early Modern Italy

    Plague Time: Space, Fear, and Emergency Statecraft in Early Modern Italy

    Contributor(s): Nicholas A. Eckstein

    Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth- and seventeenth-century policies were the first steps towards an authoritarian paradigm...

  4. From Carnival to Pious City: Scenes of Urban Life in Leandro Bassano’s The Months

    From Carnival to Pious City: Scenes of Urban Life in Leandro Bassano’s The Months

    Contributor(s): Anca-Delia Moldovan

    This work examines the urban environment depicted by Leandro Bassano in his cycle of the Twelve Months during February and March, and the notable iconographic shift it presents with respect to the typical imagery of farming labours. Leandro represented the themes of Carnival in February and Lent...

  5. Mayan and Andean Medicine and Urban Space in the Spanish Americas

    Mayan and Andean Medicine and Urban Space in the Spanish Americas

    Contributor(s): Sharonah Fredrick

    Mayan and Andean medicine included empirical perspectives and botanical cures that were transmitted in the urban spaces of colonial Spanish America, spaces themselves built over former Amerindian cities. Mayan and Andean peoples, whose histories included development of both urban and rural...

  6. Introduction: Special Issue, Digital Representations of Contemporary Shakespeare Performances
  7. Donaldson, Peter S., dir. and editor-in-chief, and Alexa Alice Joubin, co-dir. MIT Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive.
  8. Bennett, Susan, and Sonia Massai, project leaders. Performance Shakespeare 2016. Other.
  9. Edmonson, Paul, and Paul Prescott, gen. eds. Reviewing Shakespeare. Other.
  10. Fischlin, Daniel, project dir. Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP). Archive.
  11. Bandín, Elena, Laura Campillo, Juan F. Cerdá, Keith Gregor, Jesús Tronch, and Noemí Vera, project leads. Shakrep: Shakespearean Performance in Spain. Archive.
  12. Lei, Bi-qi Beatrice, dir. Taiwan Shakespeare Database. Archive.
  13. Pacariem, Shech, ed. Shakespeare in the Philippines: A Digital Archive of Research and Performance. Other.
  14. Constable, Neil, chief executive. Globe Player. Other.
  15. Cimolino, Antoni, artistic dir.; Anita Gaffney, executive dir.; Ann Swerdfager, publicity dir. Stratfest@Home. Other.
  16. Ridout, Jenny, project dir. Drama Online. Database.

    Ridout, Jenny, project dir. Drama Online. Database.

    Contributor(s): Sheila T. Cavanagh

  17. Bohn, Babette. Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna.
  18. Cifarelli, Paola et Franco Giacone, éds. La langue et les langages dans l’oeuvre de François Rabelais.
  19. Ferretti, Emanuela, Cecilia Frosinini, Roberta Barsanti, and Gianluca Belli, eds. La Sala Grande e la Battaglia di Anghiari. Dalla configurazione architettonica all’apparato decorativo.
  20. Gallagher, Lowell, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton, eds. Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy.