Articles

Markus Vink

Church and State in Seveteenth-Century Colonial Asia: Dutch-Parava Relations in Southeast India in a Comparative Perspective

Jan van Eyck's Lost Mappamundi -- A Token of Fifteenth-Century Power Politics

From Lateness to Waning to Crisis: The Burden of the Later Middle Ages
 

Book Reviews:

• Athar, The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb, revised edition (Dehli: Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart Englaand (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Berdan and Anawalt, editors, The Essential Codex Mendoza (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997)
• Jorg-Dieter Brandes, Die Mamluken: Aufstieg und Fall einer Sklavendespotie (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag GMBH & Co., 1996)
• Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact. Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
• Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800, second edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Lawrence and Shapin, editors, Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiements of Natural Knowledge (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997)
• Drossbach, Die "Yconomica des Konrad von Megenberg. Das "Haus" als Norm fuer politische und soziale Strukturen (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Boehlau Verlag, 1997)
• Melzer and Norberg, editors, From the Royal to the Republican Body. Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century France (Bekeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997)
• Ambrosoli, The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press, 1997)