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
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
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
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.
