Furies: War in Europe: 1450–1700 Lauro Martines. Bloomsbury, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-60819-609-8. ... makes a major contribution in this survey of war in “early modern Europe.” ...

The Dialectics ofOrientalism in Early Modern Europe, 1492-1700. University ofIllinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 7-8, 2011. In early modern Europe, discourses on and images of theOrient and Islam are ...

A 1,700-year-old carved marble head of Emperor Constantine has been found in a sewer in central Rome. Archaeologists found the 60cm (2ft) head while clearing an ancient drainage system in the ruins of ...

How Pineapples Became the Gucci Purse of 1700s Europe. Long before they were the stars of tropical drinks or controversial pizzas, pineapples were the obsessively hoarded, perpetually pursued ...