Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe offers readers a chance to understand better the societal and confessional norms that motivated late medieval and early modern Christians to maintain or ...

The farmers who brought agriculture to central Europe about 7,500 years ago did not contribute heavily to the genetic makeup of modern Europeans, according to the first detailed analysis of ancient ...

In U.S. Protestant circles there is a particularly popular story about the origins of religious toleration. In the aftermath of the Reformation, the story goes, there was an Age of Religious Wars ...

Office: Blair 349 Email: [[nspopper]] Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Medieval and Early Modern Europe Thematic Areas of Research: British Empire, Comparative and Transnational, ...

Speaking of interdisciplinarity, I received from H-Net this announcement of what looks like a fascinating conference about land use and legal history: The Struggle for Land: Property, Territory, and ...

Our students become well-rounded critical thinkers who understand how studying the medieval and early modern periods can complement a study of period, nation, language and discipline, and who are well ...

A research team co-directed by Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, has dated a human jawbone from a Romanian bear hibernation cave to between 34,000 and ...

Pamela H. Smith during a blacksmithing course at the West Dean College of Arts and Conservation in West Sussex, UK, 2004 (all images courtesy the University of Chicago Press) Already a member? Sign in ...

A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans – Homo sapiens – living in western Europe. The discovery of the molar from Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in ...

Just as the UK was recovering from storms Eunice and Franklin, scientists of UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report warning of a future with spiraling weather ...

Europe was considerably colder 44,000 years ago than previously thought, according to new research. The finding is forcing a rethink about early human migration patterns and where our ancestors ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...