Early Modern Europe

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Benjamin Schmidt
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Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History

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The Historical Review at UW Publishes First Volume of Undergraduate Student Research (June 23, 2021)
In Memoriam: Jon Bridgman, 1930-2015 (March 26, 2015)

Related Research

The Globalization of Netherlandish Art (with Thijs Weststeijn), Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2024
“Sandro Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1485,” in Smarthistory, 2019.
“‘Beauty Adorns Virtue:’ Italian Renaissance Fashion,” New York Fashion Institute of Technology, 2018, (general audience).
“Warburg’s Etruscan Florentines,” SEQUITUR, volume 4, issue 2, “Extra,” Boston University, 2018.
“The Question of Pregnancy in Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait,” in Smarthistory, 2018 (general audience).
“How fashion adapted to climate change – in the Little Ice Age,” The Conversation, Salon, Newsla, 2017, (general audience).
Tyler Lange, Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France: The Business of Salvation (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Schmidt, Benjamin Inventing Exoticism Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Paperback edition 2019. Chinese translation 2020.
“When Wax Ruled Florence: Redefining Florentine Portrait Effigies,” Parnassus, volume 10, “Taking the ‘S’ Out of the Craft,” pages 34-39, University of Louisville Hite Art Institute, 2014.
Tyler Lange, The First French Reformation: Church Reform and the Origins of the Old Regime (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)