An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in an important transitional period in early modern medicine.

In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability an

Lund demonstrates the significance of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy within early modern literary culture, covering religious and medical issues.

In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practiti