14 maart 2024
Museums in Rome are among the oldest and most famous in the world, prized for their outstanding collections, collecting histories, and architecture. Together, they present a full range of western European museum history in one of the most consequential of historic...
21 februari 2024
This KNIR Research Dialogue consists of two lectures: What did we eat before pizza? The archaeology of food and consumption in the Medieval Mediterranean (Joanita Vroom) True knowledge is achieved when the deepest scholarly ideas converge with the shallowest clichés....
23 oktober 2023
During the Renaissance in Europe, information about the African continent, particularly the Sahel and sub-Saharan regions, was rediscovered from classical antiquity. This information merged with ideas and concepts brought to Europe by contemporary travelers. This...
22 augustus 2023
By the seventeenth-century, chocolate – most widely consumed in beverage form – was the drink de jour for many and its curative powers were being heralded by doctors and laymen alike in treatises and chronicles. My paper, “Taking it like candy,” examines the...
18 juli 2023
Recent academic and societal debates on the role of museums have emphasized the work of collections and exhibitions in creating and enforcing enduring notions of local, national, or more recently ‘global’ identities. In fact, since at least the 1960s, the political...