early modern

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…