This series highlights interdisciplinary, comparative and transcultural perspectives located at the interface between historical and cultural studies. The temporal framework encompasses the epochal boundary between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period in order to explore the dynamics of this threshold period. The series focuses on Europe in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the context of its global interdependencies. The spectrum of topics ranges from intellectual history and the history of ideas, such as the emergence of humanism and the Reformation, to legal history, the history of literature and knowledge (including the development of medical practices and philosophical discourse) and the history of religion, the church and the Reformation. Political anthropology, the lifeworlds and rituals of the late Middle Ages and the role of gender in the literature and society of this period are also in focus. The quality-assured series publishes studies in German, English and French, primarily monographs, but also thematically focused anthologies.