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The traveling anatomist: Nicolaus Steno and the intersection of disciplines in early modern science
Published on 4 Nov 2026
by Michael Bycroft University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
The metaphysics of race: science and faith in the Nazi worldview
Published on 21 Oct 2026
by Dan Stone Royal Holloway, University of London
The first emancipation: the forgotten history of abolition in Revolutionary France
Published on 2 Oct 2026
by William S. Cormack University of Guelph
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Published on 1 Oct 2026
The age of Hobsbawm: the life of a revolutionary historian
Published on 30 Sep 2026
by Michael Bentley St Hugh’s College, Oxford
The craft of Indo-Arabic numerals. How practical arithmetic shaped commerce and mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600
Published on 24 Sep 2026
by José María Pérez Fernández University of Granada
Narrating crisis: World War I, American labour and Ammon Hennacy’s conversion to Christianity, 1914–1940
Published on 24 Sep 2026
by Samuel O’Connor Perks Independent ScholarSamuel O'Connor Perks obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the KU Leuven in 2021. His work focuses on the conjunction of religion, politics and culture in Europe and North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Art Historiography and the Architectural Theory Review. O'Connor Perks's first monograph, Off-Modern Catholic Aesthetics was published by Brill in 2025.
Constructing liberal Cartesianism: spiritualism, republicanism and the political uses of the history of modern philosophy in nineteenth-century France
Published on 23 Sep 2026
by Andrea Leonardi Institut d'Histoire des Répresentations et des Idées dans les Modernités, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, FranceAndrea Leonardi is a doctoral researcher at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. His research focuses on nineteenth-century French political thought, and more particularly on the liberal republicanism developed by former students of Victor Cousin, including Jules Simon, Jules Barni, and Étienne Vacherot.
Timaeus in Paradise. Metaphors and beauty from Plato to Dante and beyond
Published on 15 Sep 2026
by Jacomien Prins Universiteit Utrecht
The multiplicity of Scripture: the making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
Published on 9 Sep 2026
by Abigail Hayton University of Notre Dame
Shaping women philosophers: studies on the archaeology of the female intellectual identity in early modern Europe
Published on 9 Sep 2026
by Manuel Fasko University of Basel
Hans Kelsen on constitutional democracy: genesis, theory, legacies
Published on 3 Sep 2026
by Luca G. Castellin Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
“Eine Neigung vor die neuere Gelehrsamkeit”: Johann Christoph Gottsched and the translation of Fontenelle’s Entretiens (1726–1751)
Published on 2 Sep 2026
by Giovanni Lista Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), GermanyGiovanni Lista is a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg). His current research focuses on the circulation of knowledge in eighteenth-century Europe through translational practices and the conceptual displacements this process generates. At the centre of his latest project stands the English, German and Italian translations of Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, approached as a single transnational case study, on which he has recently published.
Epistemic uncertainty and the question of monstrosity: Locke, Buffier, and Hume
Published on 2 Sep 2026
by Anik Waldow Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaAnik Waldow is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and specialises in early modern philosophy, with a focus on theories of sympathy, personal identity, and the role of experience and embodiment in the formation of the self. Her books include Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature (O.U.P., 2020) and Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (Continuum, 2009). She co-edited volumes on empathy, sensibility, Herder, Buffier, and Condillac. Her current research investigates conceptions of monstrosity, race, and dehumanisation in early modern philosophy.
Morin: the view from the margin
Published on 27 Aug 2026
by Steven Vanden Broecke Rodolfo Garau a Ghent University, Belgiumb Technische Universität Nürnberg, Germany
The astrologer and the queen: Morin and Marie Louise Gonzaga, Queen of Poland
Published on 27 Aug 2026
by Chantal Grell Department of History, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, FranceChantal Grell is an historian of the early modern period and Professor Emerita of Modern History at the Université de Versailles–Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Her research focuses on the intellectual, political, and cultural history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, with particular interests in historiography, the reception of classical antiquity, the construction of historical memory, and the culture of the French monarchy.
The documentary margins of a marginal savant: Morin and early modern print culture
Published on 27 Aug 2026
by Aurélien Ruellet History Department, Le Mans Université, FranceAurélien Ruellet is a lecturer in early modern history at Le Mans University (France) and a member of the research unit TEMOS—CNRS 9016. His research interests cover the social history of science and knowledge in the 17th century, intellectual networks in 16th- and 17th-century France, and the history of cognitive faculties, especially memory and attention, in relation to education. He has a growing interest in the history of acoustics. He is the author of La Maison de Salomon: histoire du patronage scientifique et technique en France et en Angleterre (2016).
Christian Wolff and his Pietist critics in the historiography of German philosophy: the continuing legacy of Max Wundt
Published on 20 Aug 2026
by Simon Grote Wellesley College
Liberal worlds: James Bryce and the democratic intellect
Published on 20 Aug 2026
by Petros Spanou University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Galileo’s fame: science, credibility, and memory in the seventeenth century
Published on 19 Aug 2026
by Stefano Gattei University of Trento, Italy
Between astronomy and politics: the Petit–Morin polemic over the solar eclipse of 8 April 1652
Published on 13 Aug 2026
by Rodolfo Garau Department Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Technische Universität Nürnberg (UTN), Nürnberg, GermanyRodolfo Garau is a postdoctoral researcher in the early modern research group within the Department of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Technische Universität Nürnberg. He specializes in the intellectual history of early modern Europe, with a particular emphasis on the history of philosophy and science, the Scientific Revolution, natural philosophy, cosmology, and the relationship between empirical knowledge and metaphysical thought.
Stars, states, and salvation. Recalibrating government in Morin’s astrology
Published on 13 Aug 2026
by Steven Vanden Broecke Department of History, Ghent University, Ghent, BelgiumSteven Vanden Broecke is Professor of History of Science and Intellectual History at Ghent University.
Descartes and Morin: the existence of God demonstrated in geometrical fashion
Published on 13 Aug 2026
by Roger Ariew Departrment of Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa, USARoger Ariew is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at The University of South Florida. He has published extensively on the philosophy of René Descartes, including Descartes and the First Cartesians (2014) and Descartes among the Scholastics (2011).
Spinoza, Meyer, and the critique of Maimonides in the Theological-Political Treatise
Published on 14 Jul 2026
by Kuni Sakamoto School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University, Tokyo, JapanKuni Sakamoto (Ph.D. 2012) is Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University, Japan. The main focus of his research is on early modern Aristotelianism and Cartesianism. His works include Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism (2016).
Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas and beyond
Published on 23 Jun 2026
by Max Skjönsberg University of Florida
Liberalism After the revolution: The intellectual foundations of the Greek state, c. 1830–1880
Published on 23 Jun 2026
by Peter Hill Northumbria University
Feminisation of (thought) style? Gendered epistemologies of literary criticism in interwar Poland
Published on 4 Jun 2026
by Ksenia Shmydkaya School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn, EstoniaKsenia Shmydkaya is a Lecturer in Slavic and Russian studies at Tallinn University’s School of Humanities. Her first monograph, Revolution, She Wrote, explores the philosophical foundations and political resonance of women-authored historical fiction in interwar Europe. Among her scholarly interests are gender history and history of knowledge in Eastern Europe, epistolarity, historical representation, and the French Revolution.
John Locke and Henry More on personal identity
Published on 4 Jun 2026
by Giuliana Di Biase Department of Literature, Arts and Social Sciences, G. d'Annunzio University, ItalyGiuliana Di Biase is professor of moral philosophy at G. d'Annunzio University, Italy. She has authored two monographs on Locke in Italian and published numerous articles in English that explore his philosophical ideas. Recently, she co-edited another monograph on Locke with James Farr. She is the editor-in-chief of the Italian journal Studi Lockiani. Ricerche sull'età moderna.
Practical divinity, scholasticism and the fallen imagination in early modern England
Published on 2 Jun 2026
by Barret Reiter Barret Reiter completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2022. His research focuses on the history of the imagination in early modern Europe, especially its philosophical, theological and political dimensions.
Johann Christoph Sturm’s opposition to Cartesianism
Published on 1 Jun 2026
by Christian Henkel Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumChristian Henkel is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven (since March 2026). His research focuses mainly on early modern metaphysics, natural philosophy , and scientific method. He has published extensively on authors such as Bacon, Du Châtelet, Cordemoy, Leibniz, Ploucquet, Sturm, and Wolff. Recently, he has published a monograph on Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany (Routledge, 2024).