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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Images of Iberia
1st Edition
Edited
By Piers Baker-Bates, Miles Pattenden
February 06, 2018
The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain’s formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown. Spanish monarchs ruled far and wide, spreading agents and culture across Europe and the wider world. Yet in Italy they encountered another culture whose achievements were even prouder...
Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522–1657
1st Edition
Edited
By Christina H. Lee
May 25, 2017
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 period--...
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans: English Transnationalism and the Christian Commonwealth
1st Edition
By Brian C. Lockey
May 24, 2017
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 ...
Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination: A Scattered Nation
1st Edition
By Eva Johanna Holmberg
May 22, 2017
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 ...
Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550–1800: Diplomatic, Mercantile and Technological Interactions
1st Edition
By Emily Byrne Curtis
March 29, 2017
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 ...
Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico
1st Edition
By Mónica Domínguez Torres
March 29, 2017
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 ...
The Culture of Piracy, 1580–1630: English Literature and Seaborne Crime
1st Edition
By Claire Jowitt
November 16, 2016
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 ...
Collaborative Translation and Multi-Version Texts in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Belén Bistué
October 31, 2016
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 ...
Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Dana Leibsohn, Jeanette Favrot Peterson
October 26, 2016
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 ...