Center for Early Modern History

Promoting scholarly inquiry into the interchange of peoples, goods, and ideas that marks the first era of global contacts, ca. 1300–1800.

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Alchemist at table with examples of everyday transformations--bread, wine, cut stones, metal objects, and cooked chicken.

Transformation is in the Works

The Center for Early Modern History, the Center for Medieval Studies, and the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World become the new Center for Premodern Studies.

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Early American Spanish Drawing of Smallpox

COVID Through the Eyes of Historians: Sarah Chambers

Professor Sarah Chambers discusses the epidemics that swept the Americas for centuries due to the arrival of Europeans as part of a series that offers a historical perspective…

Upcoming Events

Colored Illustration. Title: "Emperor Maximilian I." Depicts Maximilian, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, in a suit of armour. Author Unknown

October 20, 2022

Carl Sheppard Memorial Lecture in Medieval Art History

"The 'Last' Knight?": Maximilian I on the Threshold of Early Modernity

Engraving of indigenous Tupinambá dance from Jean de Léry's Navigatio in Brasiliam Americae (1592).

October 27, 2022

60th James Ford Bell Lecture

"Speaking Images: The Art of Travel Literature in Early Modern Europe"

19th-century image of a raven, in black and white, standing in front of trees, from W. Tiler’s The Natural History of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects (1862).

November 11, 2022

CPS Lecture: Sarah Rivett

"Sea-Ravens and the Terrestrial Limits of Natural History"