The Early Modern field includes European society, culture, ideas, and politics from about 1350 to about 1750. Our faculty spans several national and disciplinary sub-fields. Margaret L. King, an expert on the Italian Renaissance (fourteenth through sixteenth centuries), focuses on the cities of Venice and Florence, women and learning, and humanism, as well as on urban history and the history of childhood in international and cross-temporal perspective. Elisheva Carlebach, an expert on Jewish history, focuses on early modern Jewry in the German lands, especially heretical and messianic movements and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Helena Rosenblatt, an expert on the Enlightenment, focuses on intellectual history, especially the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the liberalism of Benjamin Constant, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political theory, and the religious dimensions of the Enlightenment. Distinguished Professor Joseph Dauben, a historian of science and mathematics both of the West and of China, focuses in the early modern period on the Scientific Revolution as well as the broader intellectual history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.