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In this article, two historians of medieval and early modern Italy explore the impact of seasonal rhythms and routines on the social structures and practices of rural communities in central and northern Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. We also investigate how rural...

Air Quality and the Senses in Early Modern Italy

Article | 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...

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

Article | 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...

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

Article | 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...

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

Article | 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...

Mayan and Andean Medicine and Urban Space in the Spanish Americas

Article | 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...

Introduction: Special Issue, Digital Representations of Contemporary Shakespeare Performances

Article | Contributor(s): Bi-qi Beatrice Lei

Donaldson, Peter S., dir. and editor-in-chief, and Alexa Alice Joubin, co-dir. MIT Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive.

Article | Contributor(s): Zoltán Márkus

Bennett, Susan, and Sonia Massai, project leaders. Performance Shakespeare 2016. Other.

Article | Contributor(s): Ricardo Rocha

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