Early Modern Mexico
Alchon, Suzanne Austin. A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective. 1st ed. University of New Mexico Press, 2003.
Burkhart, Louise M. Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature. IMS Monograph 13. Albany, N.Y: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University at Albany: Distributed by University of Texas Press, 2001.
Conover, Cornelius. “Reassessing the Rise of Mexico’s Virgin of Guadalupe, 1650s–1780s.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 27, no. 2 (2011): 251–79. https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2011.27.2.251.
Curtin, Philip. “Disease Exchange Across the Tropical Atlantic.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 15, no. 3 (1993): 329–356. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23331729.
Harrington, Patricia. “Mother of Death, Mother of Rebirth: The Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56, no. 1 (1988): 25–50. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVI.1.25.
Mundy, Barbara E. The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015.
Prem, Hanns J. “Disease Outbreaks in Central Mexico During the Sixteenth Century.” In Secret Judgments of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America, edited by Noble David Cook and W. George Lovell, 20–48. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Phillips, Carla Rahn. “Visualizing Imperium: The Virgin of the Seafarers and Spain’s Self-Image in the Early Sixteenth Century.” Renaissance Quarterly 58 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1353/ren.2008.0864.
Remensnyder, Amy G. La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Schroeder, Susan. “Jesuits, Nahuas, and the Good Death Society in Mexico City, 1710-1767.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 80, no. 1 (February 1, 2000): 43–76. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/12344.
Early Modern Italy
Clifton, James. “Mattia Preti’s Frescoes for the City Gates of Naples,” The Art Bulletin (1994): 479–501. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3046040.
Henderson, John. “‘Filth is the mother of corruption’: plague, the poor and the environment in early modern Florence,” In Plague and the City. Body and the City, edited by L. Engelmann, C. Lynteris, and John Henderson, 69-90 (London, UK: Routledge, 2018).
Henderson, John. Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).
Henderson, John. Renaissance Hospitals: Healing the Body, Saving the Soul (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).
Pollak, Martha. Cities at War in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Pollak, Martha. Turin 1564–1680: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of an Absolutist Capital (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
Rose, Colin. “Plague and Violence in Early Modern Italy,” Renaissance Quarterly 71.3 (2018): 1000-1053. https://doi.org/10.1086/699602.
Terpstra, Nicholas and Colin Rose, eds., Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City (London: Routledge, 2016).
Early Modern Spain
Bowers, Kristy. Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2013).
Mackay, Ruth. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague, 1596-1601 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Early Modern Mecca/Hejaz
A visual history of the Hajj: 1400 years of Islamic Pilgrimage from The Khalili Collections: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/a-visual-history-of-the-hajj/BQIiauzrf6WAJQ.
Alam, Muzaffar and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “A View from Mecca: Notes on Gujarat, the Red Sea, and the Ottomans, 1517-39/923-946 H.,” Modern Asian Studies, 51:2 (2017): 268-318. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X16000172.
Burak, Guy. “Between Istanbul and Gujarat: Descriptions of Mecca in the Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean,” Muqarnas (2017): 287-320. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26551702.
Choudhury, Rishad. “The Hajj and the Hindi: The ascent of the Indian Sufi lodge in the Ottoman empire,” Modern Asian Studies 50:6 (2016): 1888-1931. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X15000530.
Faroqhi, Suraiya N. Pilgrims and Sultans: The Hajj under the Ottomans (London: I. B. Tauris, 1994).
Hessa, Albader Hussam Dakkak and Basmah Kaki, “Makkah’s popularity: a tale of two cities,” The Architectural Review, 3 May 2018: https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/makkahs-popularity-a-tale-of-two-cities.
Meloy, John M. Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).
Shafir, Nir. “In an Ottoman Holy Land: The Hajj and the Road from Damascus, 1500-1800,” History of Religions 60:1 (2020): 1-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/709169.
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, “Beyond the usual suspects: on intellectual networks in the early modern world”, Global Intellectual History, 2:1 (2017): 30-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2017.1332884.
Early Modern England
Stevenson, Christine. Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000).
Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Rüstem, Ünver. Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019).
Varlık, Nükhet. Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
White, Sam. “Rethinking Disease in Ottoman History,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, no. 4 (2010): 549-567. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41308709.
Zarinebaf, Fariba. Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018).