Dr Zhaokun Xin has recently published two articles on literary exploration of emotions in Ming dynasty (1368-1644) China. The first piece, titled “Diagnosing, Misdiagnosing, and Rediagnosing Women’s Anger in the Jin Ping Mei,” came out from the Journal of the American...

   In this post, Dr Ingrid Rembold (Manchester) discusses her new article in the English Historical Review.My recent EHR article, ‘Widows, orphans and churches: protection and virtue signalling in the Carolingian world’, is the most aggravating thing I’ve...

A new open access special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (101, no. 2) features innovative research in imaging heritage science projects conducted at The University of Manchester.The special issue has been co-edited by Stefan Hanß and James Robinson...

Stefan Hanß, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, designed and delivered the first interdisciplinary research project to analyse the biochemical residues of historical users of early modern medical and cosmetic manuscripts. The pathbreaking...

Dr Ali Bennett is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Oxford’s Department of Lifelong Learning, and a former member of the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. In this post, she offers an overview of her new journal article, recently published in...

Dr Rachel Winchcombe has won a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her groundbreaking project, Edible Empire: Foodways and the Making and Breaking of Anglo-America. In this blog post, Rachel reflects on the significance of this work.   As the globe...

Francisco Guevara is a visual artist and independent scholar whose conceptual art practice focuses on revealing the entanglements between art, power, and the writing of art history, examining how they shape perceptions of identity and the ‘body.’ His work spans a wide...

New Exhibition!The Germanisches Nationalmuseum—the largest museum of cultural history in the German-speaking region—has launched the new special exhibition Global Nuremberg, 1300–1600. What is the Exhibition About?This special exhibition explores the global networks...

Camden Reeves is Professor of Music at the University of Manchester. In this post, he explains how a visit to The Whitworth's 2023-2024 exhibition, Albrecht Dürer's Material World, inspired him to write the new musical composition 'Melancholia & the Angel'. The...