Böcker i Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World-serien

A study of connections, parallels, and mutual interaction between two critical disciplines - medicine and history - in 15th- to 17th-century Europe. This book examines the intersections of medically trained authors and history, in the period 1450 to 1650.

Revising the orthodox schema of the public sphere in which political authority shifted away from the crown with the rise of bourgeois civil society, this work shows how the public sphere in fact grew out of the learned and even royal libraries of erudite scholars and the bookshops of subversive, not-so-polite publicists of the republic of letters.