early modern

On close examination of a number of early modern Turk and Moor plays written between 1586 and 1642 female characters are: cast in the shadow of Elizabeth, the rose of England, or wither in comparison; portrayed as temptresses who act as catalysts in the conversion and corruption…

This dissertation aims at establishing the interplay between disease and empire in the historical example of the early modern Ottoman Empire of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It also aspires to reconstruct a historical narrative of plague outbreaks in the Ottoman lands b…

This study analyses the overland commerce of Hindustan (i.e., northern India) into Central Asia and Iran between 1526 and 1707. In approaching Mughal history from the standpoint of its trade's moral economy, this study addresses the attributes of power in Mughal India; the inter…

My aim in this dissertation is to use the Ottoman discourse of the circle of justice as a wedge in an otherwise crippling debate that presumes a post sixteenth-century decline in the ability of the Ottoman empire to control and direct state affairs. While most scholars in the fi…

This dissertation examines space and gender in three medieval and early modern Mediterranean texts: the illustrated, anonymous, thirteenth-century Arabic manuscript from Seville, Bayad wa Riyad , the anonymous thirteenth-century Old French Romance Aucassin et Nicolette , and Fer…