Rachel Midura
Title
Assistant Professor
Institution
Virginia Tech
Website
http://www.rachelmidura.comCurrent Research
History of Communication & Information; Diplomacy; Political Culture; Postal History; History of Travel & Tourism; Espionage; Surveillance & Censorship; History of the Book
Recent Publications
‘They Hide from Me, Like the Devil from the Cross’: Transalpine Postal Routes as Intelligence Work, 1555–1645. History (2023): 303-327. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13362.
"Itinerating Europe: Early Modern Spatial Networks in Printed Itineraries, 1545–1700" Journal of Social History 54 (4) (2021): 1023-1063
"Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish and Borromean Milan (1535–1584)" Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) (2021): 21-46
"Itinerating Europe: Early Modern Spatial Networks in Printed Itineraries, 1545–1700" Journal of Social History 54 (4) (2021): 1023-1063
"Policing in Print: Social Control in Spanish and Borromean Milan (1535–1584)" Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) (2021): 21-46
Forthcoming Publications
Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025)