Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
About the Book Series
This series presents studies of the early modern contacts and exchanges among the states, polities and entrepreneurial organizations of Europe; Asia, including the Levant and East India/Indies; Africa; and the Americas. Books investigate travellers, merchants and cultural inventors, including explorers, mapmakers, artists and writers, as they operated in political, mercantile, sexual and linguistic economies. We encourage authors to reflect on their own methodologies in relation to issues and theories relevant to the study of transculturism/translation and transnationalism. We are particularly interested in work on and from the perspective of the Asians, Africans, and Americans involved in these interactions, and on such topics as:
-Material exchanges, including textiles, paper and printing, and technologies of knowledge
-Movements of bodies: embassies, voyagers, piracy, enslavement
-Travel writing: its purposes, practices, forms and effects on writing in other genres
-Belief systems: religions, philosophies, sciences
-Translations: verbal, artistic, philosophical
-Forms of transnational violence and its representations.
Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer
1st Edition
Edited
By Joan-Lluis Palos, Magdalena S. Sanchez
October 14, 2024
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
1st Edition
By Stephen Ortega
October 14, 2024
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 ...
Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526–1658
1st Edition
By Valerie Gonzalez
June 30, 2020
The first specialized critical-aesthetic study to be published on the concept of hybridity in early Mughal painting, this book investigates the workings of the diverse creative forces that led to the formation of a unique Mughal pictorial language. Mughal pictoriality distinguishes itself from the ...
Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean: Charting Journeys and Mapping 'Others'
1st Edition
By Erith Jaffe-Berg
December 12, 2019
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 Encounters between East Asia and Europe: Telling Failures
1st Edition
Edited
By Ralf Hertel, Michael Keevak
December 12, 2019
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 ...
Early Modern Exchanges: Dialogues Between Nations and Cultures, 1550-1750
1st Edition
By Helen Hackett
December 12, 2019
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
1st Edition
By Karim Bejjit
December 12, 2019
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 ...
The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature: A Globalization and Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Donne and Milton
1st Edition
By Mingjun Lu
December 12, 2019
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 ...
The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555
1st Edition
By Matteo Salvadore
April 15, 2019
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 ...
Beyond Spain's Borders: Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne J. Cruz, Maria Cristina Quintero
January 17, 2019
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
1st Edition
By Pascale Barthe
January 17, 2019
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 ...
Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690
1st Edition
By a foreword by Lisa Jardine, Philip Major
September 10, 2018
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 ...