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Laurie M. Wood was one of the foremost early modern global historians of her generation and a remarkable friend and colleague. Her first book, Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire, won the 2021 Boucher Prize from the Society of French Colonial History. The committee lauded her integrated framing of the Caribbean and […]
The History Faculty New Book Series presents:Sex in an Old Regime City Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789 A conversation with JULIE HARDWICKJohn E. Green Regents Professor of History, and UT Distinguished Teaching ProfessorUniversity of Texas at Austinhttps://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell and KARIN WULFProfessor of History, College of William & Mary, andDirector, Omohundro Institute of Early American […]
This article first appeared in Nursing Clio. The original can be accessed here. One morning in June 2019, two city workers in Lyon, France, pulled a plastic bag out of the river that runs through the city center and found it contained the body of a “late term fetus or a newborn baby thought to […]
In the spring of 1691, Louis Thebeaudeau, a shoemaker in the French city of Nantes, was asleep in a small room off his workshop when a ghost in the shape of his wife, Marie Monnier, woke him up.