This study explores how illicit transatlantic trade relations with the Dutch in seventeenth-century Virginia can be identified through the material record. The research was motivated by recent excavations at a seventeenth-century plantation on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Eyreville…
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This project examines how indigenous agrarian communities in Mexico’s Central Highlands used both legal and extralegal strategies to maintain their access to water while facing increasing environmental changes and competition from private landholders, cities, and other indigenou…
This thesis re-evaluates the nature and impact of seventeenth-century Scottish-Swedish relations, as regards military, diplomatic and noble involvement during the Thirty Years' War and in terms of Scottish domestic political developments between 1638 and 1660. The innovative <I>…
Concentrating on six plays in the 1610s, this thesis explores the ways theatrical visual effects described as “strange” channel the period’s moral anxieties about rhetoric, technology, and scepticism. It contributes to debates in repertory studies, textual and material culture, …
The seventeenth century was an incredibly fascinating time for art in England developmentally, especially because most of the artists that were receiving the commissions from English patrons and creating the art weren’t English, they were Dutch. Over this one hundred year period…
Modern critical works on the seventeenth-century Extremaduran author Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán are sparse, with the exception of recent interest manifested by a small group of feminist scholars in the United States. Apart from intermittent mentions of her poetry, she is v…
This thesis re-examines the role of marriage in the golden age of seventeenth-century French comedy. It reconsiders received wisdom on the subject to challenge acceptance of the final promise of marriage as a dénouement complet to comedy. Through an analysis of the themes of dis…
During the 1630s, congregations began to separate from the established Anglican Church forming new autonomous groups. This study examines separatist and Baptist women s writings from this period, as they struggled under the persecution of the religious authorities and under the …
Early modern Poland-Lithuania figured significantly in the political perceptions of Europeans in the long seventeenth century – not only due to its considerable size and enormous commercial and military resources, but also, and just as importantly, due to its exceptional religio…
Arthur Ingram and Lionel Cranfield were part of the early modern phenomenon of social mobility, rising from humble merchants to titled gentlemen in one generation. Cranfield, especially, reached significant heights in a matter of years. Despite the fact both men have merited bio…
"Commerce and Justice: Ottoman and Venetian Courts in Istanbul during the Seventeenth Century” analyzes legal disputes and economic transactions between Ottoman and Venetian merchants in Istanbul on a daily basis between 1600 and1620. At that time, the Venetians constituted the …
Using English accounts of the Ottoman Empire's 1683 siege of Vienna, including monographs, ballads, poems, and pamphlets, this paper examines the ways in which the English viewed the Turk in the late seventeenth century. My exploration of these descriptions of the siege reveal t…
This dissertation examines selected Orthodox printing houses of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Poland-Lithuania, showing how printers of Orthodox literature encountered linguistic, economic, and cultural problems distinct from those of their Catholic counterparts, especially…
This dissertation analyzes popular spy narratives written during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as a means of speculating on the nature of the relationship between clandestinity and truth-telling in the early English novel (c. 1684-1750). Turning to the nove…
This dissertation examines Spanish treatment of subject Muslims (Moriscos) as a model for the assimilation and acculturation of Amerindians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It gives particular emphasis to formal, institutional roles of the government and Church in…
The urban development of Aleppo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is explored, focusing on the patronage of urban architectural complexes by Ottomans, members of the ruling imperial Elite based in Istanbul. The synchronic and diachronic study of architectural interventi…
This dissertation explores the shifting boundaries between the center and the margins, between establishment and opposition and between orthodoxy and heterodoxy in seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire through a contextual study of the life and works of a controversial Sufi, Meh[do…
This thesis examines the power and politics of the notables in a small Ottoman town in the law part of the seventeenth-century. It seeks to integrate the study a macro process, the empowerment of the Ottoman notables in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a micro and …
The early-modern period witnessed the slow demise of the old medieval order dominated by the dual authority of emperor and pope. The Age of the Crusades was also past. Princes like François I began to engage in economic and military alliances with the traditional enemy, the Musl…