Social historians of the past decades have explored new ways of understanding human experience, publishing fascinating new work on sensory history, spatial history, material history, and history of the emotions. They have worked with some earlier social historical methods, like quantification, they have incorporated foundational concerns about class and economics, and they've integrated areas of inquiry that took off in the second half of the 20th century, like the histories of gender, of children and youth, and of race. Early modern historiography has been transformed by the intersections of these approaches, and in this seminar we’ll consider how the new work on sense, space, materials, and emotions may change our approach to the early modern world. We will look at some theoretical or survey works, read some monographs together in depth, and sound out the scope of possibilities through a few essay collections. When we look at different sides of human experience, do we see and interpret the early modern period differently?