Renaissance Fitness: Exercise Rediscovery
Did Renaissance Italy rediscover exercise? Explore Girolamo Mercuriale's 'lost art' and how ancient Greek fitness was revived in the 1500s.
How to Clean Your Body in the Renaissance
Debunking the myth that Renaissance people were dirty—discover how Italians bathed, used perfumes, and maintained bodily hygiene.
Not 'fit for child-bearing': Fatness and (In)fertility
Explore how fat bodies were pathologized from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, linking fatness to infertility and moral failure.
Renaissance Fitness: Exercise Rediscovery
Did Renaissance Italy rediscover exercise? Explore Girolamo Mercuriale's 'lost art' and how ancient Greek fitness was revived in the 1500s.
How to Clean Your Body in the Renaissance
Debunking the myth that Renaissance people were dirty—discover how Italians bathed, used perfumes, and maintained bodily hygiene.
Not 'fit for child-bearing': Fatness and (In)fertility
Explore how fat bodies were pathologized from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, linking fatness to infertility and moral failure.