New Publication Alert! Arts in Society: Academic Rhapsodies Have you finished our blog and are you looking for more open access content on the arts in society to read from home? Look no further, we have a fresh open access publication for you! Lieke Smits, Tim Vergeer, Sophia Hendrikx and Merel Oudshoorn • March 31, 2020
A taste of the Early Modern period. Cooking and eating sixteenth and seventeenth century recipes. What happens when Early Modernists get together for drinks and snacks? Modern beverages and food just won’t do… Sophia Hendrikx and Tim Vergeer • January 17, 2019
Fantastic Beasts and How to Make Them (according to 16th century instructions) In his 1558 encyclopedia of fishes, the Swiss scholar Conrad Gessner described how to make a dragon out of a dried ray. How does this work in practice? Sophia Hendrikx • November 01, 2018 • 1 comment
Monsters, Sea-Monks, and Mermaids: Strange Creatures from the Sea from Antiquity to the Modern Age Day 4 of the Fish & Fiction week: the fact and fiction of sea monsters from Antiquity to modernity Sophia Hendrikx • September 23, 2018
LUCAS 2019 Graduate Conference - Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation On April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a conference called Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation. Sophia Hendrikx • September 13, 2018 • 1 comment
Lactating creatures with double genitals and the head of a cow In 1554 the renowned naturalist Guillaume Rondelet described mysterious New World "whales" with some intriguing qualities. They were mammals, could be trained like a dog, and had not one, but two full sets of genitals. Which animals were these? Sophia Hendrikx • August 24, 2017
Happy Birthday Blog To celebrate the blog's first birthday, this post looks back on some of the highlights so far. Sophia Hendrikx, Lieke Smits, Nynke Feenstra, Tessa de Zeeuw, Robbert Striekwold and Céline Zaepffel • April 06, 2017
What’s in a name? Mislabeling fish since the 16th century. A 16th century example of fraudulent mislabeling and Babylonian confusion... Sophia Hendrikx • March 23, 2017
Spontaneously Generating Fish In the Early Modern period, it was believed some species of fish came into existence through spontaneous generation. Why was this? Sophia Hendrikx • February 07, 2017
