X-Nico

unusual facts about early modern Europe


Bergen op Zoom

During the early modern period, Bergen op Zoom was a very strong fortress and one of the main armories and arsenals of the United Provinces.


Justin Champion

His research and teaching interests include the history of early modern ideas, blasphemy and irreligion in early modern Europe, Thomas Hobbes, Biblical criticism, urban disease, the history of reading and scholarship, and the use of information technology in the study of history.

Paloma Fernández

Fernández Pérez has studied the influence of personal networks in European business in the transition from the early modern period to modern times, in diverse economic sectors (colonial trade, capital intensive industries), and regions (Andalusia, Catalonia).

The Coffee Trader

The Coffee Trader is an historical novel by David Liss, set in 17th century Amsterdam.


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Jonathan Israel

He was named Sir James Knott Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1970, and in 1972 he moved to the University of Hull where he was first an assistant lecturer then a lecturer in Early Modern Europe.

Waiting for Snow in Havana

Professor Eire, who received his PhD from Yale University in 1979, specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe.