Through historical archaeology, an analysis of the material remains of Iglesia Mayor, the first cathedral in New Spain, dating from 1523 to 1626, was conducted. It was built in the center of what was the Aztec capital of México, Tenochtitlan, which became the capital of New Spai…
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In 1521, the destruction of Aztec leadership created a disjointed network of native communities in what is now Mexico but would come to be known as New Spain. Until 1572 New Spain was an open and contested space for political, economic, and religious dominance among various Span…
Francisco Delicado and Juan and Alfonso de Valdés, Spanish humanists who departed from their country of birth and experienced the dark days prior to the sack of Rome in 1527 and its aftermath, engaged and instructed their readers through the dialogue form. This dissertation expl…
The main question we set out to answer in this dissertation is: can Gabrielle de Coignard’s outlook, as perceived through her OEuvres chrestiennes, be described as hedonistic and, if so, to what extent?
In this thesis, the staple food of Mesoamerica features in a pair of comparison studies each containing two representations, one from colonial Mexico and another from the contemporary Southwest US. The association of the tortilla with indigeneity in these four representations si…
It has traditionally been taught that Iran, a Sunni state was converted to Twelver Shi'ism almost overnight when the armies backing the Safavid house conquered the country in 1501. In recent years, however, scholars have begun to question how, and how rapidly, the process of con…
The purpose of this study is to investigate Baha al-Din Muhammad ibn Husayn Amili, aka Sheikh Bahai, a sixteenth century Middle Eastern scholar and educator, and his mathematical work, Quintessence of Calculation (or Khulasat al-Hisab). To accomplish this objective a set of proc…
This thesis is a study of royal acts printed in French before 1601. The kingdom of France is a natural place to begin a study of royal acts. It possessed one of the oldest judicial systems in Europe, which had been established during the reign of St Louis (1226-1270). By the six…
This thesis explores attitudes of Christians toward Islam and Muslims in Spain in the sixteenth century and intends to destabilize Islam's traditional place as adversary in Early-Modern Spanish history. My research aligns itself with and employs new trends in historiography that…
The Ottoman-French alliance in the sixteenth century, when a Christian king allied with a Muslim sultan against another Christian ruler, has been regarded as a sensational aberration from the norms of Renaissance Diplomacy. It is argued here that this perception is the result of…
The common view that Islamic and Persianate painters were anonymous, lowly artisans, is primarily a result of the attitude which Islam demonstrated toward the plastic arts. In contrast, painters in the Europe of the Renaissance are thought to have enjoyed a life of prestige unkn…
This dissertation focuses on the intellectual issues that surround the most dramatic form of human encounter: that of imperial conquest. By examining the modes of thought available to conquering societies I examine the way in which specific narrative traditions influence the pro…
This dissertation addresses the reciprocal relations between rational speculation and devotional piety in the life and thought of Rabbi Moses Cordoeiro (= Cordovero - RaMaK, Safed, 1522-1570), arguably the most important mystical thinker in Jewish history. By featuring numerous …
This doctoral thesis, under the title "Territorial articulation in insular spaces: terrestrial communications in the Canary Islands from the XVI to the XIX centuries" , studies the road network in the light of its primitive structure, from the original settlements to the end of …
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 translates into English and provides annotations for the 254-page Ottoman Turkish manuscript, Mevâ'idü'n-Nefâ'is fi Kavâ'idi'l-Mecâlis , composed in 1599-1600 by the renowned Ottoman historian and bureaucrat Gelibolulu Mustafa Âli. This is the first translation…
Many postcolonial studies have dealt with the destructive impact of colonialism on the Other / the colonized with comparatively less attention paid to the mentality and motives behind colonialism. In addition to showing the colonial discursive practices, this dissertation will f…
The Chandayan romance, composed by the poet Maulana Da'ud of Dalmau in 1379 and relating the adventures of princess Chanda and the hero Laurak, is known today in five fragmentary and dispersed illustrated versions and two incomplete unillustrated copies. This dissertation focuse…