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Beyond Spain's Borders
Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters
Av Anne J. Cruz, Maria Cristina Quintero
Häftad, 2019
876 kr
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The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders. The transnational character of early modern theater reflects the rich admixture of various dramatic traditions, such as Spain’s comedia and …
French Encounters with the Ottomans, 1510-1560
Häftad, 2019
881 kr
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Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by early modern European powers by addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the birth of the Franco-Ottoman rapprochement …
African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555
Häftad, 2019
708 kr
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From the 14th century onward, political and religious motives led Ethiopian travelers to Mediterranean Europe. For two centuries, their ancient Christian heritage and the myth of a fabled eastern king named Prester John allowed the Ethiopians to engage the continent's secular and religious elites …
Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean
Charting Journeys and Mapping 'Others'
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Drawing on published collections and also manuscripts from Mantuan archives, Commedia dell' arte and the Mediterranean locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. The study provides a broad perspective on commedia dell’ arte as an …
Early Modern Exchanges
Dialogues Between Nations and Cultures, 1550-1750
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Marcus Gheeraerts’s portrait of a ’Persian lady’ - probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume - exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture. Her surrounding landscape and the embroidery on her gown are typically English; but her head-dress and slippers are decidedly exotic, …
English Colonial Texts on Tangier, 1661-1684
Imperialism and the Politics of Resistance
Av Karim Bejjit
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Recent years have seen growing academic interest in England’s colonial venture in Tangier in the late seventeenth century, and the crucial role it played not only in influencing contemporary domestic politics in England, but also in shaping new imperial policies in the Mediterranean. This critical …
Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature
A Globalization and Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Donne and Milton
Av Mingjun Lu
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first substantial encounter between China and Western Europe. Author Mingjun Lu explores how Donne and Milton came to be aware of England’s participation in ’the race …
Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe
Telling Failures
Av Ralf Hertel, Michael Keevak
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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While inquiries into early encounters between East Asia and the West have traditionally focused on successful interactions, this collection inquires into the many forms of failure, experienced on all sides, in the period before 1850. Countering a tendency in scholarship to overlook unsuccessful …
Writing a New France, 1604-1632
Empire and Early Modern French Identity
Inbunden, 2009
3165 kr
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The focus of this study is the exciting period of French overseas exploration directly following the stagnation caused by the Wars of Religion. The book examines the early period of French involvement in Northeastern America through readings of key texts, principally travel and missionary accounts. …
Material and Symbolic Circulation between Spain and England, 1554–1604
Av Anne J. Cruz
Inbunden, 2008
2896 kr
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Separated only by a narrow body of water, Spain and England have had a long history of material and cultural interactions; but this intertwined history is rarely perceived by scholars of one country with a view toward the other. Through their analyses of the various modes of exchange of material …
Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550–1800
Diplomatic, Mercantile and Technological Interactions
Inbunden, 2008
2594 kr
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In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, and explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce …
Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750
Visual Imagery before Orientalism
Inbunden, 2011
2834 kr
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Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire - this collection probes the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts. …
Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer
Av Joan-Lluis Palos, Magdalena S. Sanchez
Häftad, 2024
669 kr
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Toward the end of the fifteenth century, the Habsburg family began to rely on dynastic marriage to unite an array of territories, eventually creating an empire as had not been seen in Europe since the Romans. Other European rulers followed the Habsburgs' lead in forging ties through dynastic …
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Ottoman-Venetian Encounters
Häftad, 2024
669 kr
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Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing principally on Ottoman Muslims who came to …
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans
English Transnationalism and the Christian Commonwealth
Häftad, 2017
730 kr
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Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective of 16th-century English Catholic exiles and 17th-century English royalist exiles helped to generate a form of cosmopolitanism that was rooted in contemporary religious and national identities but also …
Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522-1657
Häftad, 2017
789 kr
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Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia. The volume covers the transpacific …
Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination
A Scattered Nation
Häftad, 2017
881 kr
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Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores the encounter between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and religious traditions created an image of Jews as untrustworthy, even sinister, travellers came to know …
Beyond Spain's Borders
Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters
Av Anne J. Cruz, Maria Cristina Quintero
Inbunden, 2016
2896 kr
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The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders. The transnational character of early modern theater reflects the rich admixture of various dramatic traditions, such as Spain’s comedia and …
Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era
Entrepôts, Islands, Empires
Av John Watkins, Kathryn L. Reyerson
Häftad, 2016
868 kr
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The first full length volume to approach the premodern Mediterranean from a fully interdisciplinary perspective, this collection defines the Mediterranean as a coherent region with distinct patterns of social, political, and cultural exchange. The essays explore the production, modification, and …
Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa
Häftad, 2016
955 kr
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Using Pieter de Marees' Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) as her main source material, author Elizabeth Sutton brings to bear approaches from the disciplines of art history and book history to explore the context in which De Marees' account was created. Since …
Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Häftad, 2016
955 kr
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Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, travellers, astrologers, historians and naval captains promoted their vision of the world and the centrality of the Ottoman Empire in it. It proposes a new …
Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750
Visual Imagery before Orientalism
Häftad, 2017
894 kr
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Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire - this collection probes the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts. …
Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico
Häftad, 2017
729 kr
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Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Mónica Domínguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the 'conquest' in fact involved dynamic exchanges between …
Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550–1800
Diplomatic, Mercantile and Technological Interactions
Häftad, 2017
789 kr
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In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, and explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce …
Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare
Av Jason Powell, William T. Rossiter
Häftad, 2016
999 kr
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A detailed examination of the relationship between the discourses and practices of authority and diplomacy in the late medieval and early modern periods, Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare interrogates the persistent duality of the roles of author and ambassador. The volume …
Culture of Piracy, 1580–1630
English Literature and Seaborne Crime
Häftad, 2016
999 kr
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Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the sometimes hard-to-distinguish …
Early Modern Encounters with the Islamic East
Performing Cultures
Av Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
1066 kr
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An exploration of early modern encounters between Christian Europe and the (Islamic) East from the perspective of performance studies and performativity theories, this collection focuses on the ways in which these cultural contacts were acted out on the real and metaphorical stages of theatre, …
Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World
Av Dana Leibsohn, Jeanette Favrot Peterson
Häftad, 2016
955 kr
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What were the possibilities and limits of vision in the early modern world? How did political expansion, cross-cultural trade, scientific exploration and discrete religious practices require new ways of rendering the unknown visible, and of making what was seen knowable? Drawing upon experiences …
Collaborative Translation and Multi-Version Texts in Early Modern Europe
Av Belén Bistué
Häftad, 2016
931 kr
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Focusing on team translation and the production of multilingual editions, and on the difficulties these techniques created for Renaissance translation theory, this book offers a study of textual practices that were widespread in medieval and Renaissance Europe but have been excluded from …
Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690
Av a foreword by Lisa Jardine, Philip Major
Häftad, 2018
948 kr
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Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the …
