Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace

Scott Oldenburg specializes in early modern literature and culture at Tulane University. He is the author of Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England and A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London as well as articles on various early modern topics.Kristin M. S. Bezio is an Associate Professor at the University of Richmond. Publications include Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays; “Munday I Sweare Shalbee a Hollidaye” in Études Anglaises; and William Shakespeare & 21st Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership with Anthony Russell.

• 1. Render unto Caesar: Religious Thought, Trade, and Secular Authority in Groningen during the Dutch Golden Age 2. The Market that Binds Us: Religious Exchange in Medieval Syria-Palestine 3. King Enrique IV of Castilla and the Christian Underpinnings of His Letter on Trade Fairs 4. Material and providential economies in Montaigne’s Essais 5. "The Inscrutable Customes of the Country": Thomas Roe, Edward Terry, and the Early Indian Marketplace 6. "Moving Images": Marketing the Sacred in Viceregal Rural Peru 7. Sanctity, Anti-Judaism, and the Early Market Economy 8. Timeo hiberos et cruces ferentes: Jesuit Missiology as Iberian Colonialism in Early Modern Abyssinia 9. Racialized sacred spaces: Studying commodifications of race in Þingeyrar, Iceland (c.1470-1700) 10. The Miracle of the Black Leg: Medical Knowledge, Race + Territorialization