My main project at present is a study of the former imperial forests of Lorenz and Sebald that surround the German city of Nuremberg. The resultant book, which will be entitled The Forests of Nuremberg: Nature, Culture, and Power in Early Modern Germany (1427-1806), will view the forests from a number of different perspectives. In addition to looking at their importance as a natural environment and the synergy between this environment and the city, the book will also explore, among other things, the significance of the forests as a testing ground for the Empire's political cultures, as a vanishing point for contested views of the past, as a melting pot for the social orders, as a controlled experiment in methods of medieval and early modern rule, as a living laboratory for natural philosophers, and as a muse for artists and writers. It will thus primarily be a study of the importance of place and space in the medieval and early modern period, though as this was an ecological space, much of the book will be concerned with the history of the forests as forests, and that means exploring issues related to the natural environment, resource management, and the methods, the dynamics, and the limitations of oversight and control.