Eliza Smith was a housewife and best-selling author, whose book, “The Compleat Housewife,” is filled with more than 300 recipes for cordials, roasts, pickling — and how to cure the bite of a mad dog.
Anders Winroth, newly named as the Birgit Baldwin Professor of History, specializes in the history of medieval Europe.
Winroth’s research is focused specifically on the cultural, intellectual, and legal history of the European High Middle Ages and on the economic and social history of early medieval Scandinavia.
In this conference in honor of Stuart Schwartz, scholars from Europe and Brazil discuss his contributions to the history of Iberian societies, colonial Brazil, and Africans in the southern Atlantic. At the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris on June 18.