Overview

Early Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe (ca. 1600–1800). Far from the background role that scholarship has traditionally assigned to fire, the essays in this volume demonstrate its centrality to understanding the entangled histories of science, technology, and society in the pre-industrial period. Analysing case studies ranging from alchemy to cooking and from firefighting to fireworks, the contributors show that the history of fire is not only one of change and progress, but also of continuity, characterised by the persistence of traditional know-how, small-scale innovation, and the coexistence of different paradigms. Contributors: Gianenrico Bernasconi, Catherine Denys, Hannah Elmer, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Olivier Jandot, Cyril Lacheze, Andrew M.A. Morris, Cornelia Müller, Bérengère Pinaud, Stefano Salvia, Marco Storni, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

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“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.

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Gianenrico Bernasconi, Ph.D. (2009, University of Paris 1-Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) is associate professor and “directeur de recherche” at the Université de Neuchâtel. He is the author of Objets portatifs au siècle des Lumières (Paris: 2015) and co-editor of several other volumes. Marco Storni, Ph.D. (2018, ENS Paris-Università di Bologna) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is the author of Maupertuis. Le philosophe, l’académicien, le polémiste (Paris: 2022; prize of the Fondation Del Duca-Institut de France 2023).

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