Melissa Reynolds

Books:

Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print  (Chicago: University of Chicago press, 2024)

Articles & Essays:

• "Of Plants and Providence: Assessing Drugs, Difference, and Divine Will in Timothy Bright's The Sufficiencie of English Medicines (1580)," forthcoming in Renaissance Quarterly
• Co-author (with Hannah Frydman), “Introduction: Histories of Abortion Beyond Roe,” Gender & History 36, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 289–294.
• “The Sururgia of Nicholas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England,” Social History of Medicine 35, no. 1 (February 2022): 144­–169. (Winner, 2023 J. Worth Estes Prize, American Association for the History of Medicine)
• “How to Cure a Horse, or, the Difference Between the Knowledge of Experience and the Experience of Knowledge,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 52, no. 4 (2022): 546–552.
• “‘Here is a good boke to lerne’: Practical books, the coming of the press, and the search for knowledge, ca. 1400–1560,” Journal of British Studies 58, no. 2 (April 2019): 259–288.  (Honorable Mention, 2020 Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Essay Prize)

• American Historical Association
• Renaissance Society of America
• American Association for the History of Medicine
• History of Science Society
• Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender

• Article reviewer for Social History of Medicine; Centaurus: The Journal of the European Society of the History of Science; Ambix: The Journal of the Society of the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
• Discipline Representative to the Renaissance Society of America for the History of Medicine and Science
• Liaison to the American Historical Association for the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender