Early Modern Japanese Intellectual History: USA, France, and Germany1

Economic History Association The Economic Theory of Sharecropping in Early Modern France

Basle, Printing, and the Early Modern Intellectual World

This is the most complex, and certainly the heaviest, work I have ever been called upon to review. Neither its punning title: Theophrastus and Galen – Celsus and Paracelsus nor its more informative subtitle, Medicine, natural philosophy and church reform in Basle printing down to the Thirty Years War, gives a proper idea of the riches it contains. Even as a catalogue of imprints, it extends bey...

Midwifery and medicine in early modern France: Louise Bourgeois

Flanders and served that most Catholic of rulers, Charles V, is not mentioned, although Colombo is given counter-reformation Catholic beliefs because he served the Pope, and Fabricius' religious views are deduced from his friendship with Sarpi and his membership of the Venetian intellectual elite. To his credit, Cunningham is honest in his admission of the theory's weaknesses. He allows that Co...

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

Modern Japanese medical history and the European influence.

Before the first European visited Japan in 1549, traditional Chinese medicine was mainly employed in Japan. Francisco de Xavier, a missionary of the Society of Jesus, tried to promote the introduction of Christianity by providing a medical service for Japanese citizens. However, Japan implemented a national isolation policy in 1639 and cut off diplomatic relations with the rest of the world, ex...