Technology

First Article
Author Johanna Rickman reviews in her article for Renaissance Quarterly the book that contains an inspiring collection of essays about women in the 15th through 18th century Europe that was edited and compiled by Stephanie Tarbin and Susan Bromhall. The book, entitled Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe, tackles and commemorates female identities, roles, and issues in different parts of Europe and largely focuses on English women. Rickmans article highlights how the book presents the diversity of the gender related issues that occur as time passes by. The article describes how the essays in the book narrates and details efficiently to its readers the lives of women and the roles of men to females issues in the past. Rickman also mentions how the editors Tarbin and Bromhall recognized the contributions of Patricia Crawford, an influential scholar of women studies, to the orientation of the society regarding female-related stories and issues.

Second Article
In his essay entitled Business Failure and Civil Scandal in Early Modern Europe, Thomas Max Safley delves into the reasons and consequences of bankruptcy in the economic history, particularly focusing on one of the biggest financial enterprises in early modern Europe, the Ambrosius and Hanns, the Brother Hochstetter and Associates. The author relates in his article how the events of the past translate into theories of the limitations of the modern economic crisis and development. Safley explores extensively how bankruptcies are caused by both economic downturns, and the managerial failures of the people are considered key players in the industry. The author also stresses in his article how most of the time bankruptcies result in grave scandals but sometimes, like in Hochstetters case, the problem of bankruptcy had in fact encouraged positive development for the public goods of the economy.