Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700

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Transottoman Matters: Objects Moving through Time, Space, and Meaning

Arkadiusz Christoph Blaszczyk, Robert Born, Florian Riedler (eds.), Transottoman Matters Objects Moving through Time, Space, and Meaning (2022)

Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria: A Second-Born Son in Renaissance Europe

Sylva Dobalová and Jaroslava Hausenblasová (eds.), Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria: A Second-Born Son in Renaissance Europe (2021)

Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850

Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Josef Köstlbauer and Sarah Lentz (eds.), Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850 (2021)

Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague

Suzanna Ivanič, Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague (Oxford University Press, 2021)

The Sultan's World: The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art

Robert Born, Michał Dziewulski and Guido Messling, The Sultan's World: The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art [Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; and the National Museum in Kraków] (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2015)

Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683

Laura Lisy-Wagner, Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683 (Routledge, 2013)

Europa Jagellonica: Art and Culture in Central Europe under the Jagiellonian Dynasty, 1386-1572

Jiří Fajt (ed.), Europa Jagellonica: Art and Culture in Central Europe under the Jagiellonian Dynasty, 1386-1572 [Kutná Hora: Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Warsaw: Royal Castle, Potsdam: Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte] (Kutná Hora: GASK, 2012)

Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Court, Cloister, and City The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)

Forum: Global Prague: Renaissance and Reformation Crossroads, Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. 52, 2021

Howard Louthan, 'Introduction: Golden Prague—Beyond Rudolf' (pp. 13-16); Suzanna Ivanič, 'Global Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century Prague' (pp. 17-29); Ivana Horacek, 'Illuminating Methods, Picturing Instruments: Tycho Brahe's Instrumental Images' (pp. 30-53); Anna Parker, 'Ester, a Missing Clasp, and Jewish Pawnbroking Networks in Renaissance Prague' (pp. 54-63); Erika Supria Honisch 'Encounters with Music in Rudolf II's Prague' (pp. 64-80); Suzanna Ivanič 'Coda: Repositioning Early Modern Prague on the Global Stage' (pp. 81-82)

Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present

Beáta Hock and Anu Allas (eds.), Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)

Remembering the Jagiellonians

Natalia Nowakowska (ed.), Remembering the Jagiellonians (Abingdon: Routlege, 2018)

Going Global? An Attempt to Challenge the Peripheral Position of Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Painting in the Historiography of Art

Tomasz Grusiecki, 'Going Global? An Attempt to Challenge the Peripheral Position of Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Painting in the Historiography of Art Going Global? An Attempt to Challenge the Peripheral Position of Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Painting in the Historiography of Art', The Polish Review, 57/4 (2012): pp. 3-26

Michał Boym, the Sum Xu, and the Reappearing Image

Tomasz Grusiecki, 'Michał Boym, the Sum Xu, and the Reappearing Image', Journal of Early Modern History 23, no. 2/3 (2019): 296–324

Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans

Carina L. Johnson, Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Between Texts and Textiles. The (Swéerts-)Sporcks, Textual Practices and Cultural Exchange at the Turn of Baroque and Enlightenment

Veronika Čapská, Between Texts and Textiles. The (Swéerts-)Sporcks, Textual Practices and Cultural Exchange at the Turn of Baroque and Enlightenment (Prague: Scriptorium, 2016).

Prague and Bohemia: Medieval Art, Architecture and Cultural Exchange in Central Europe

Zoë Opačić, Prague and Bohemia: Medieval Art, Architecture and Cultural Exchange in Central Europe (Leeds: The British Archaeological Association, 2009)

Print Culture at the Crossroads: The Book and Central Europe

Elizabeth Dillenburg, Howard Louthan and Drew B. Thomas (eds.), Print Culture at the Crossroads: The Book and Central Europe (Brill, 2021)

Changing Subjects, Moving Objects Status, Mobility, and Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe, 1700–1850

Constanţa Vintilă, Changing Subjects, Moving Objects Status, Mobility, and Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe, 1700–1850 (Brill, 2022)

German Conquistadors in Venezuela The Welsers' Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory

Giovanna Montenegro, German Conquistadors in Venezuela The Welsers' Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory (Pennsylvania, 2022)