Headlong he runs into Circe's snares: Representation and the Restoration Royal Mistress is an interdisciplinary study of the Restoration royal mistress. During the Restoration and for generations thereafter, the mistresses of Charles II (reigned 1660-1685) came to symbolize the …
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The purpose of the present study is to see the Turk in the English Renaissance as a threat and yet as a geopolitical adversary. Despite the threat the Turks created during the sixteenth century, the study proposes that they played a constructive role in defining some aspects of …
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…
I trace the origins of the Turk as a construct and develop its critical history, pointing to the various moments in which it was interpreted anew by various forces. My aim, however, is not to argue that the nation is invented by various groups historically, as currently the most…
Travelers' experiences in Cyprus and the texts they produce in light of these encounters function rhetorically, informing cultural relations among people of different societies. When the efforts of these travel writers are taken to be rhetorical, critics position themselves to i…