The dissertation's purpose was to discover how the term "illumination" functioned in baptismal systems of select sixteenth-century reformers. Chapter 1 documented the origination and early usage of baptismal illumination. Hebrews 6:4, 10:32 metaphorically connected φω\tauι\sigma…
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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…
The dissertation presents a linguistic analysis of the language of the sixteenth century Czech manuscript Cesta z Czech do Geruzalema knieze Martina Bakalarze (Martin Bakalarz's journey from Bohemia to Jerusalem), comparing it with two other sixteenth century Czech texts similar…
Fatehpur Sikri is a world heritage monument. It was commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar and was constructed in less than fifteen years (1569-1574). Fatehpur Sikri served as the capital of the Mughal empire for a very short time, from 1569 to 1585. At present, most of its bu…
The ways in which the battle of Lepanto was imagined by contemporaries proves to be a combination and confluence of international and domestic political pressures, celebratory ritual, print practices, and the currency of intellectual ideas. The understanding of the Turkish adver…
This dissertation examines the uses and meanings of the so-called Mudéjar aesthetic in sixteenth century New Spain (colonial Mexico). Its focus on the luxury arts, especially on cloth, clothing, and ceramics, offers a shift from the traditional focus on architectural history to …
This dissertation explores representations of Jewish women in the sixteenth-century academic drama, interlude, and public theater. The two main archetypal figures of the Jewish I identify, the authoritative matriarch and the alluring virgin daughter, draw on Old Testament figure…
This dissertation is a study of Ottoman expansion in the Indian Ocean, beginning with Sultan Selim the Grim's conquest of Egypt in 1517, and ending with the corsair Mir Ali Beg's last naval expedition to the Swahili Coast in 1589. The aim of my research is to create a coherent n…
When the Moroccan sufi shaykh and reputed saint ‘Alī b. Maymūn (1450–1511) came to Damascus in 1507, he was particularly critical of the conduct of the ‘ulamā’ there. He found fault with them for insisting upon being addressed with honorifics (alqāb), vying with each other in we…
This dissertation deals with the corpus of icons painted by Serbian artists between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The icons were housed in Serbian Orthodox churches in Bosnia-Herzegovina at th…
So far, the topic of Moroccan-Ottoman relations from the 16th through the 18th centuries has received only superficial attention in both Moroccan and Ottoman historiographies. The general assumption was that since Morocco was not an Ottoman province, relations between Morocco an…
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Muslims of the newly conquered territory of Granada rebelled against their Catholic Castilian and Aragonese masters. The Muslims of Granada were subsequently given the choice of expulsion or conversion, with many choosing to remain …
This dissertation studies the relations between Spanish Early Modern autobiography and its contemporary discourses, mainly historiography and fiction. It argues that in a time when autobiography is not a defined genre, writers who choose to narrate their lives do so in close rel…
This dissertation examines illustrated manuscript patronage in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Ottoman court and calls for a more nuanced understanding of the ideological, cultural, and social functions of its artistic projects. Although non-royal courtiers play…
This dissertation examines two examples of biblical epic literature: Antonino Alfano's Battaglia celeste (1568) and Erasmus of Valvasone's Angeleida (1590), situating their works and this genre within their ancient, medieval, and early modern context as primordial struggles betw…
This dissertation focuses on developments in the Ashkenazic rite, the liturgical rite of most Central and Eastern European Jewry, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is an especially interesting period in the development of the Ashkenazic rite, for it witnessed …
Maps are cultural texts that can be studied for how the cultures represented distinguish one type of space from another. Over 300 maps that emphasise religious space, with particular emphasis on heretical space, will guide this study, which focuses on the lands of Spain during t…
This dissertation examines the corpus of illustrated manuscripts of the panegyric Shahnama-i Isma`il , a work commissioned by Shah Isma`il himself from the poet Qasimi. While the existence of this poem has been known for some time, the manuscripts have languished largely unappre…
This study operates from the understanding that diplomacy between 1501 and 1555 can shed light on not only political, but religious and administrative features of the ruling Iranian dynasty, the Safavids (1501-1722). Carving out a dynastic presence in the fractured post-Timurid …