Florike Egmond
Guest researcher
- Name
- Dr. M.F. Egmond
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- m.f.egmond@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2588-2831
Florike Egmond is a researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
Fields of interest
NWO project: Carolus Clusius and sixteenth-century botany in the context of the new cultural history of science.
Research
Inspired by historical anthropology and microhistory, my research in the period 1980 to 1995 focused mainly on the history of crime, punishment, marginality, honour and violence. Since then I have moved from networks of criminals and lawyers to those of experts in natural history, at the same time going backwards in time from the 18th to the 16th century. My present research concentrates on the European history of Renaissance natural history (as well as medicine and pharmacology), with a special emphasis on the combination of visual and textual information in botany and zoology, the European exchange networks of experts in these fields, naturalia in the history of collecting, styles of patronage by both individuals and institutions (such as courts and universities), and the contribution of non-university trained experts to the formation of natural history as a discipline during the period 1530-1630. The cultural analysis of the correspondence and European networks of correspondents of the eminent 16th-century botanist Carolus Clusius is my main research project for the period 2002-2010.
Publications
Correspondence and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francisco Bethencourt and Florike Egmond (Cambridge UP, winter 2006-07)
Carolus Clusius. Towards a cultural history of a Renaissance naturalist, edited by Florike Egmond, Paul Hoftijzer and Robert Visser (Edita, Amsterdam, winter 2006-07)
Egmond, M.F., Clusius, Cluyt, Saint Omer. The origins of the sixteenth-century botanical and zoological watercolours in Libri Picturati A. 16-30. Nuncius : annali di storia della scienza, XX, (2005), pp. 11-67
Het Visboek. De wereld volgens Adriaen Coenen (Walburg Pers, Zutphen, 2005)
The Whale Book. Whales and other marine animals as described by Adriaen Coenen in 1585, edited and with an introduction by Florike Egmond and Peter Mason (Reaktion Press, London, 2003)
Het Walvisboek. Walvissen en andere zeewezen beschreven door Adriaen Coenen in 1585. (Walburg Pers, Zutphen)
Bodily Extremities. Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture, edited by Florike Egmond & Robert Zwijnenberg (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003)
Kometen, monsters en muilezels: natuurbeelden en natuurwetenschappen in de zeventiende eeuw, edited by Florike Egmond, Eric Jorink and Rienk Vermij (Arcadia, Haarlem, 1999).
Florike Egmond & Peter Mason: The Mammoth and the Mouse. Microhistory and Morphology (Johns Hopkins, Baltimore & London, 1997)
Of bidden helpt? Tegenslag en cultuur in Europa, circa 1500-2000, edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra & Florike Egmond (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 1997)
Underworlds. Organized Crime in the Netherlands, 1650-1800 (Polity Press, Cambridge, 1993)
Guest researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Franse L&C
- Egmond M.F. (2023), A sense of place: early-modern roots of Humboldt’s natural history practices. In: Thurner M. & Cañizares-Esguerra J. (Eds.), The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge. New York; London : Routledge. 29-56.
- Egmond M.F. (2023), Review of: Marrache-Gouraud M. (2020), La Légende des Objects. Le Cabinet de Curiosités réfléchi par son catalogue (Europe, XVIe-XVIIe siècles). Geneva: Droz. Journal of the History of Collections 35(2): 396–398.
- Egmond M.F. (2022), Bosch e oltre: il naturalismo scientifico nel XVI secolo. In: Aikema B. & Checa Cremades F. (Eds.), Bosch e l’altro Rinascimento. Milan: 24 ORE Cultura. 170-183.
- Egmond M.F. (2022), Visual immersion: Daniele Barbaro’s fish album and the wave of interest in aquatic creatures in mid sixteenth-century Europe, Royal Society of London: Notes and Records : .
- Egmond M.F. (2022), Plants and Medicine. In: Dalby A. & Giesecke A. (Eds.), A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era no. 3. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 117-136.
- Egmond M.F. (2021), Aldrovandi, truthfully drawing naturalia, and local context, Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 32(18): 81-95.
- Egmond M.F. & Rijks M. (2021), Depicting fish in early-modern Venice and Antwerp. In: Schulte Nordholt A. & Haar A. van de (Eds.), Figurations animalières à travers les textes et l’image en Europe: du Moyen Âge à nos jours Essais en hommage à Paul J. Smith. Faux Titre no. 453. Leiden, Boston: Brill. 63-77.
- Egmond M.F. (2021), Sixteenth-century university gardens in a medical and botanical context. In: Baldassarri F. & Zampieri F. (Eds.), Scientiae in the History of Medicine. Rome & Bristol: l’Erma di Bretschneider. 89-120.
- Egmond M.F. (2020), Review of: Benkert Davina (2020), Ökonomien botanischen Wissens. Praktiken der Gelehrsamkeit in Basel um 1600 . Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft no. 188. Basel and Berlin: Schwabe Verlag . Nuncius 35(2): 458-460.
- Egmond M.F. (2020), The ad vivum Conundrum: Eyewitnessing and the Artful Representation of Naturalia in Sixteenth-Century Natural Science. In: Oy-Marra E. & Schmiedel I. (Eds.), Zeigen – Überzeugen – Beweisen. Methoden der Wissensproduktion in Kunstliteratur, Kennerschaft und Sammlungspraxis der Frühen Neuzeit . Merzhausen: Ad Picturam. 33-62.
- Egmond M.F. & Kusukawa S. (2019), Gessner’s Fish: Images as Objects. In: Leu U. & Opitz P. (Eds.), Conrad Gessner (1516-1565). Die Renaissance der Wissenschaften / The Renaissance of Learning. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 581-605.
- Egmond M.F. (2019), Review of: Roos Anna Marie (2019), Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters. The art of science in the seventeenth century. Oxford: Bodleian Library. Journal of the History of Collections (2019).
- Egmond M.F. (2018), European exchanges and communities. In: Curry H., Jardine N., Secord J.A. & Spary E. (Eds.), Worlds of Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Egmond M.F. (2018), Into the wild. Botanical fieldwork in the sixteenth century. In: MacGregor A. (Ed.), Naturalists in the Field. Collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Leiden Boston: Brill. 166-211.
- Egmond M.F. (2018), On northern shores: Sixteenth-century observations of fish and seabirds (North Sea and North Atlantic). In: MacGregor A. (Ed.), Naturalists in the Field. Collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Leiden Boston: Brill. 129-148.
- Egmond M.F. (2018), Conrad Gessners Thierbuch. Die Originalzeichnungen. Darmstadt: WBG.
- Egmond M.F. (2018), Review of: Kyle Sarah (2017), Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy. The Carrara Herbal in Padua. 243 pages, 10 colour plates and 25 b&w ill. isbn: 978-14-72-44652-7.. London and New York: Routledge. Nuncius Nuncius 33(1): 140–143.
- Egmond M.F. (2018), Review of: McBurney H., Rolfe I., Napoleone C., Findlen P., Violani C., Wijnands O., Morales Muñiz A., Roselló Izquierdo E., MacGregor A. & Way K. (2016), The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series B (parts 4 and 5). Natural History. The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo no. Series B (parts 4 and 5). London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller with Royal Collection Trust. Journal of the History of Collections 30(2): 363-368.
- Egmond M.F. (2018), Review of: Sleigh Charlotte (2016), The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art. London and New York: The British Library. Annals of Science 75(2): 150-151.
- Egmond M.F. & Smith P.J. (2018), Introduction. In: Rijks M.N., Smith P.J. & Egmond M.F. (Eds.), Fish & Fiction. Aquatic Animals between Science and Imagination (1500-1900). Leiden: Leiden University. 5-7.
- Egmond M.F. (2017), Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630. London: Reaktion Books.
- Egmond M.F. (2017), Het Visboeck op tafel. Adriaen Coenen en het natuuronderzoek in de zestiende eeuw. In: Bos J., Delft M. van, Geleijns E. & Vlist Ed van der (Eds.), Een oud Boeck is oud Goud. Studies over bijzondere werken bij het afscheid van Ad Leerintveld als conservator moderne handschriften van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Den Haag: Koninklijke Bibliotheek. 115-126.
- Egmond M.F. (2017), Review of: McBurney Henrietta, Rolfe Ian, Napoleone Caterina, Findlen Paula, Violani Carlo, Wijnands Onno, Morales Muñiz Arturo, Roselló Izquierdo Eufrasia, MacGregor Arthur & Way Kathie (2017), The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series B (parts 4 and 5). Natural History: Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities.. The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series B (parts 4 and 5). Natural History. Turnhout and London: Harvey Miller with Royal Collection Trust. Journal of the History of Collections .
- Egmond M.F. & Mason P.G. (2017), “Se questo mostro marino sia infausto oppure no”: le fortune del capodoglio arenato sulla costa olandese nel 1598. In: Tosi A. (Ed.), Balene. Pisa: EDIZIONI ETS. 73-93.
- Egmond M.F. (2017), Experimenting with living nature: documented practices of 16th-century naturalists and naturalia collectors, Journal of Early Modern Studies 6(1): 21-45.
- Egmond M.F. (2016), Animal Drawings for Gessner’s Historia animalium Rediscovered in Amsterdam. In: Leu U. & Ruoss M. (Eds.), Facetten eines Universums, Conrad Gessner 1516–2016. Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 155-163.
- Egmond M.F. & Kusukawa S. (2016), Circulation of images and graphic practices in Renaissance natural history: the example of Conrad Gessner, Gesnerus: Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences 73(1): 29-72.
- Egmond M.F. (2016), Review of: Haag S., Kuster T., Jordan Gschwend A. & Sandpichler V. (2015), Echt Tierisch! Die Menagerie de Fürsten. Vienna & Innsbruck: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and Schloss Ambras Innsbruck. Nuncius 31: 237-239.
- Egmond M.F. & Dupré S. (2016), Collecting and Circulating Exotic Naturalia in the Spanish Netherlands. In: Dupré S., De Munck B., Thomas W. & Vanpaemel G. (Eds.), Embattled Territory - The Circulation of Knowledge in the Spanish Netherlands. Ghent: Academia Press. 199-227.
- Egmond M.F. (2016), Collecting naturalia - the formation of an academic botanical tradition in Leiden. In: Füssel M., Collet D. & MacLeod R. (Eds.), The University of Things. Theory, History, Practice, Yearbook for European Culture of Science 8. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 43-56.
- Egmond M.F. (2016), Kreeftengang: Holthuis’ aquarellen, Gessner en de circulatie van visuele dierenkennis in de 16e eeuw. In: Alsemgeest A. & Franssen C. (Eds.), In krabbengang door kreeftenboeken. De Bibliotheca Carcinologica L.B. Holthuis. Leiden: Naturalis Biodiversity Center. 39-44.
- Egmond M.F. (2016), The garden of nature: visualizing botanical research in Northern and Southern Europe in the 16th century. In: Ferdinand J. (Ed.), From Art to Science. Experiencing Nature in the European Garden, 1500-1700. Treviso: ZeL Edizioni. 18-33.
- Egmond M.F. (2016), Review of: Elliott B., Guerrini L. & Pegler D. (2015), Flora: Federico Cesi’s Botanical Manuscripts. Vol. I-II-III. The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B – Natural History, Part Seven. London & Turnhout: Royal Collection Trust and Harvey Miller Publishers. Nuncius 31: 240-242.
- Egmond M.F. (2015), Figuring Exotic Nature in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Garcia de Orta and Carolus Clusius. In: Da Costa P.M. (Ed.), Medicine, Trade and Empire: Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context. Farnham: Ashgate. 167-193.
- Egmond M.F. (2013), Names of naturalia in the early modern period: between the vernacular and Latin, identification and classification. In: Dupré S. & Cook H. (Eds.), Translation in the Early Modern Low Countries.. Berlin'Zürich-Vienna: LIT Verlag. 131-161.
- Egmond M.F. (2013), Observing nature. The correspondence of Carolus Clusius. In: Miert D. van (Ed.), Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters, 1500-1575. Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution.. London/Turin: Nino Aragno Editore, Warburg Institute Colloquia 23. 43-72.
- Egmond M.F. (2013) Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany. Review of: Kusukawa Sachiko (2012), Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany.. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. British Journal for the History of Science 46(2): 342-344.
- Egmond M.F. (2013), A collection within a collection. Rediscovered animal drawings from the collections of Conrad Gessner and Felix Platter, Journal of the History of Collections 25(2): 149-170.
- Egmond M.F. (2012), Trefpunt van kennis: Clusius en de plantenliefhebbers in Leiden. In: Gelder E. van (Ed.), Bloeiende kennis. Groene ontdekkingen in de Gouden Eeuw (Catalogus tentoonstelling Boerhaave). Hilversum: Verloren. 10-22.
- Egmond M.F. (2012), Apothecaries as scientists. Clusius, pharmacy and natural history in the sixteenth century. In: Anagnostou S. & Egmond M.F. (Eds.), A passion for plants ['Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie']. Marburg 15-34.
- Egmond M.F. & Smith P.J. (2012), Conrad Gessner. Inleiding, De Boekenwereld 29(1): 9-20.
- Egmond M.F. (2012) Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and Around the Netherlands during the Early Modern Period. Review of: Roberts L. (2011), Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and Around the Netherlands during the Early Modern Period. Zürich: LIT Verlag. British Journal for the History of Science 45(3 (September 2012)): 459-460.
- Egmond M.F. (2010), Precious nature: rare naturalia as collector's items and gifts in early modern Europe. In: Rittersma R. (Ed.), Luxury in the Low Countries. Miscellaneous reflections on Netherlandish material culture, 1500 to the present. Brussel: Pharo Publishing. 47-65.
- Egmond M.F. (2010), The World of Carolus Clusius. Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610. London: Pickering and Chatto.
- Egmond M.F. (2009), Some notes concerning the session on Nature & Natural history of the John White conference. Sloan Kim (Ed.), European Visions: American Voices (British Museum Research Publication No. 172). . London: British Museum Press. 42-43.
- Egmond M.F. (2009), The Exotic World of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609). Introductory Essay. In: Ommen K. van (Ed.), The Exotic World of Carolus Clusius 1526-1609. Catalogue of an exhibition on the quatercentenary of Clusius’ death, 4 April 1609. Leiden: Leiden University Library. 7-12.
- Egmond M.F. (2009), Entries on civet cat, mad plums, red narcissus, Paludanus, maldive coconut, and Clusius and the VOC, plus (together with Raymond van der Ham) entries on a piece of bark and the Egyptian arum. In: Ommen K. van (Ed.), The Exotic World of Carolus Clusius 1526-1609. Catalogue of an exhibition on the quatercentenary of Clusius’ death, 4 April 1609. Leiden: Leiden University Library.
- Egmond M.F. & Uffelen G. van (2008), Sources cited in the annotations. In: Koning Jan de, Uffelen Gerda van, Zemanek Alicia & Zemanek Bogdan (Eds.), Drawn after Nature. The complete botanical watercolours of the 16th-century Libri Picturati. Zeist: KNNV-Publishing. 51-52.
- Egmond M.F. (2008), Apothecaries as experts and brokers in the sixteenth-century network of the naturalist Carolus Clusius, History of Universities 23(2): 59-61.
- Egmond M.F. & Ramón-Laca Menendez de Luarca L. (2008), Dramatis Personae. In: Koning J. de, Uffelen G. van & Zemanek A. (Eds.), Drawn after Nature. The complete botanical watercolours of the 16th-century Libri Picturati. Zeist: KNNV-Publishing. 45-48.
- Egmond M.F. (2008), The making of the Libri Picturati A.16-30. In: Koning Jan de, Uffelen Gerda van & Zemanek Alicia (Eds.), Drawn after Nature. The complete botanical watercolours of the 16th-century Libri Picturati.. Zeist: KNNV-Publishing. 13-21.
- Egmond M.F. (2007), Clusius and Friends: cultures of exchange in the circles of European naturalists. In: Egmond F., Hoftijzer P. & Visser R. (Eds.), Carolus Clusius. Towards a cultural history of Renaissance naturalist. Amsterdam: Ediat/KNAW. 9-48.
- Egmond M.F. (2007), The Clusius Project. Clusius and Sixteenth-century Botany in the Context of the New Cultural History of Science, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 30: 66-68.
- Egmond M.F. (2007), Correspondence and natural history in the sixteenth century: cultures of exchange in the circle of Carolus Clusius. In: Egmond Florike & Bethencourt Francisco (Eds.), Correspondence and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe 1400-1 700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 104-142.
- Hoftijzer P.G., Egmond M.F. & Visser R.P.W. (Eds.) (2007), Carolus Clusius. Towards a cultural history of a Renaissance naturalist. Amsterdam: Ediat/KNAW.
- Egmond M.F. (2007), Hallucinaties in Clusius’ Exoticorum. In: Ommen K. van, Vrolijk A. & Warnar G. (Eds.), Aangeraakt. Boeken in contact met hun lezers. een bundel opstellen voor Wim Gerritsen en Paul Hoftijzer. Kleine Publicaties van de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek. Leiden: Scaliger Instituut / Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden. 81-89.
- Egmond M.F. (2007), A European community of scholars: exchange and friendship among early modern natural historians. In: Molho A., Ramada Curto D. & Koniordos N. (Eds.), Finding Europe. Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images, ca. 13th. -ca. 18th centuries. New York/Oxford: Berghahn. 159-183.
- Egmond M.F. & Bethencourt F. (2007), Correspondence and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe 1400-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Egmond M.F. (2007), Curious fish: connections between some sixteenth-century watercolours and prints. In: Enenkel K.A.E. & Smith P.J. (Eds.), Early Modern Zoology. The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 245-272.
- Egmond M.F. (2007) Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550. Review of: Givens Jean A., Reeds Karen M. & Touwaide Alain. Nuncius 22(2): 362-363.
- Egmond M.F. (2007) Inventing the indigenous: local knowledge and natural history in early modern Europe. Review of: Cooper Alix, Inventing the indigenous: local knowledge and natural history in early modern Europe. Nuncius 22(2): 372-373.
- Egmond M.F. (2006) The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series B - Part two: Fungi . Review of: Pegler David & Freedberg David (2005), The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series B - Part two: Fungi . London: The Royal Collection in association with Harvey Miller Publishers. Nuncius 21: 396-398.
- Egmond M.F. (2005), Het Visboek. De wereld volgens Adriaen Coenen. Zutphen: Walburg Pers.
- Egmond M.F. (2005), Clusius, Cluyt, Saint Omer. The origins of the sixteenth-century botanical and zoological watercolours in Libri Picturati A. 16-30, Nuncius XX: 11-67.