By Emma Spary and Justin Rivest The project “Selling the Exotic in Paris and Versailles, 1670-1730”, running in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, and funded by Leverhulme Research Grant 2014-289, held its planned workshop in April this year. Its theme, “Consumers of the Exotic: European commerce and the consumption of exotic materia medica, 1670-1730”, brought together a group of international scholars working on these questions in a broad variety of European contexts. Our goal at the workshop was to produce … Continue reading Consumers of the Exotic: summary of a workshop in Cambridge, April 5-6, 2017
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