Author: Florike Egmond

A strong preoccupation with the human body - often manifested in startling ways - is a characteristic shared by early modern Europeans and their pr...

Egmond's study investigates horticultural techniques, fashions in the collection of rare plants, botanical experimentation and methods of scientifi...

Underworlds is a lively account of organized crime and the world of marginal groups in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Netherlands. Rural...