Routledge Critical Junctures in Global Early Modernities
About the Book Series
Routledge Critical Junctures in Global Early Modernities focuses on archives—historical, literary, visual—that link the analytics of critical theory and cultural studies to the early modern period in locations across the globe from 1400 to 1700. The series publishes monographs and/or edited volumes that reflect upon how early modern texts, cultural modes of expression, and visual ideations from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and/or the South Pacific speak into or resonate with contemporary debates on gender, race, sexuality, and ability. In doing so, we invite books that deploy feminist, queer, critical race or disability approaches to texts, with the purpose not only of scrutinizing their socio-political meanings, but also of creating new archives that reframe different aspects of early modernity within and outside of Europe.
Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness: Power by Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Dijana Omeragić Apostolski, Aaron White
February 28, 2025
Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern period. What was architecture’s role in race-making, ...
Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Víctor Sierra Matute
February 18, 2025
This book is an interdisciplinary edited collection that seeks to recognize the radical importance of sound, and center it in discussions in the field of early modern studies. Bringing together a collection of case studies related spatially and temporally to specific places or events, the ...
Albrecht Dürer and the Depiction of Cultural Differences in Renaissance Europe
1st Edition
By Heather Madar
December 19, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürer’s depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outside his Western European milieu. Heather Madar contextualizes those depictions within their broader artistic and historical context and assesses them ...
Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World
1st Edition
By José Juan Villagrana
January 29, 2024
This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world. The chapters in this book analyze apocalypse and racialization from several discursive and geopolitical spaces to shed light on the ubiquity and diversity of apocalyptic...
Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas R. Jones, Chad Leahy
May 31, 2023
Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields—Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. The collection offers innovative new approaches to the study of gendered and sexualized bodies in medieval and early ...