The Medici Archive Project

Highlights from the Mediceo del Principato

Staff
May 9, 2012

Among the correspondence, news reports, and other material in the Mediceo del Principato corpus are many vivid documents attesting to contemporary attitudes toward sex, gender, and social mores.

Staff
May 8, 2012

 The letters that circulated at the Medici court are full of information on early modern medicine, from drugs developed out of plants imported from the New World to the latest surgical methods

Staff
April 13, 2012

Religious dissent and social turmoil characterized the period from the sixteenth through seventeeth centuries and this turbulence is reflected in the many documents concerning heresy in the Medici

Staff
December 3, 2011

Accounts of violence, both public and private proliferate in the documents of the Medici Archive; from domestic violence, rape, murder, capital punishment, and duels to armed conflicts involving im