Talking about her course ‘Myth and the History of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe’, Dr Felicity Green hopes to bring about a more nuanced and complex understanding of what she feels is an underappreciated area of early modern intellectual life.

It is part of the online MSc History programme at the University of Edinburgh. Find out more at www.shca.ed.ac.uk/online-history

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