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Atlantic Mobilities and the Defiance of the Early Quakers Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Carla Gardina Pestana
By the mid-1650s, the Quakers participated in an astounding campaign to spread the news of their movement. Bent on convincing everyone, they traveled through Europe, the Mediterranean, and the English Atlantic colonies. This missionary campaign was unusual in that individual converts made the decision to travel of their own accord and they did so extensively for over a decade. This travel was unstructured
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Antiquarianism or Taḥqīq? Guillaume Postel’s Reading of Abu’l-Fidā’s Taqwīm al-Buldān Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Maria Vittoria Comacchi
This paper retraces Guillaume Postel’s (1510–1581) initial acquisition of a copy of Taqwīm al-Buldān (The Arrangement of Countries), a geographical treatise of the historian and geographer Abu’l-Fidā (672/1273–732/1331) and offers an analysis of his reading of the text through a careful examination of the manuscript itself, hitherto ignored by scholarship. After the introduction and the examination
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Cultures of Taḥqīq between the Mongols, the Mughals, and the Mediterranean Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Giancarlo Casale
Across wide-ranging areas of Islamic thought, taḥqīq is an essential “way of knowing,” an epistemology broadly rooted in independent reasoning, empirical observation, openness to allegorical interpretation, and skepticism towards “received tradition.” Over the past few years, it has attracted the attention of an increasing number of scholars of both the Islamic Mediterranean and the Indo-Persian world
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In the Crucible of Ottoman Taḥqīq: A Fifteenth-Century Case of Verifying Philosophy and Theology under Sufi Agnosticism Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu
Verification (taḥqīq) was a post-classical practice in Islamicate scholarship that sought ways to attain syntheses between rational and religious sciences. This article argues, however, that the early Ottoman practice of taḥqīq was not limited to the “verification of theology and philosophy,” as it also included attempts to reconcile certain Sufi doctrines with philosophical theology. This tendency
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Looking Through Taḥqīq Glasses: Early Modern Imagination and the Unveiling of Nature in Mīrzā Bīdil’s The Sinai of Knowledge Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Stefano Pellò
In this article I trace the contours of the notion of taḥqīq in the Ṭūr-i maʿrifat “The Sinai of Knowledge,” a late seventeenth-century poetic exploration of natural phenomena by the most important Indo-Persian poet-philosopher of the Mughal times, Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Qādir Bīdil (ʿAẓīmābād, 1644 – Delhi, 1720). I collect and analyze all the textual loci where the term taḥqīq occurs in Bīdil’s mathnawī,
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On Taḥqīq, Space Travel, and the Discovery of Jetlag: Post-Mongol Trajectories of Modern Spatial Thinking Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Giancarlo Casale
Before the invention of modern air travel, the phenomenon we call “jetlag” was known as the “Circumnavigator’s Paradox.” It was first observed empirically by European mariners in the sixteenth century, who noticed a missing day in their ship logs after circumnavigating the globe. But two centuries earlier, the theoretical possibility of such an observation was demonstrated by the Arab statesman and
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The Truth is out There (and also in Here): Taḥqīq as an Investigative Modality in Mughal Culture and Scholarship Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Rajeev Kinra
This article offers a brief examination of various uses and senses of the term taḥqīq (ascertaining the truth; investigation; verification) in Mughal intellectual circles in the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. Often contrasted with another term, taqlīd (copying; imitation), taḥqīq could signify different kinds of epistemological commitments – and therefore different kinds of truth-claims – depending
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“A Bank of Trust”: Legal Practices of Ottoman Finance Between Empires Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Ellen M. Nye
How agreements were maintained and enforced beyond state-backed systems is among the least understood aspects of Ottoman legal history. This article reveals how merchants’ engagement with Ottoman state finance intertwined private and state-backed legal practices through a letter-book written entirely in Ottoman Turkish belonging to a seventeenth-century English merchant, Peter Whitcomb, who provided
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Introduction: Global Microhistory of the Local and the Global Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Maxine Berg
This Special Issue addresses recent discussions of the potential historical approach of “global microhistory.” The six articles gathered here are based in the study of Africa, South Asia, the northwest Pacific coast of North America, and Europe, as well as in the recent methodologies of global history and microhistory. They focus on methodology and on the empirical study of ways of connecting local
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Localizing Globality in Early Capitalist Basel Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Susanna Burghartz
This paper seeks to locate globality in Basel’s urban society during the emergence of capitalism (1670–1780). It seeks to globalize patrimonial historiography and local history by “inverting the telescope” as micro-historians have suggested. It analyzes how the leading actors in a Swiss city situated on the borders of France and the Holy Roman Empire participated in the new capitalism and positioned
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Portuguese Mercenary Networks in Seventeenth-Century India: An Experiment in Global Microhistory and its Archive Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Giuseppe Marcocci
Thousands of runaways left the Portuguese empire during the early modern period, but very little is known about the lived experience of this diverse group of individuals after they fled. This article questions the framework of analysis that reduces such a complex social phenomenon to the overarching category of “informal empire,” while testing the hypothesis that the issue of the archive lies at the
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The Slave and the Scholar: Representing Africa in the World from Early Modern Tripoli to Borno (N. Nigeria) Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Rémi Dewière
The Borno sultanate in present-day Nigeria was an early modern Islamic state at the crossroads of regional, transregional, and global networks. Sahelian pilgrims, North African scholars, European slaves, Saharan nomads, and Turkish mercenaries would travel to its capital, connecting it with West Africa, the Mediterranean World, and the Middle East. How do we assess Borno’s integration in the global
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Small Spaces and Multiple Contexts: Nootka Sound’s Global Locality 1774–1794 Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Maxine Berg
This article conveys the power of place in global history through the multiple perceptions of space and possession in one small remote locality – Nootka Sound on the Northwest coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This space was, for a brief period between the 1770s and 1790s, connected with many parts of the world. Microhistorical methodologies applied to the texts of traders and explorers
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What Differences Make a Difference? Global History and Microanalysis Revisited Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Francesca Trivellato
This article discusses a number of scholarly trends that fall under the rubric of global history, with particular regard for those that address the early modern period (c.1400–1800). It stresses the rubric’s lack of coherence from both a methodological and ideological perspective. Most importantly, it revisits longstanding debates about the intersection of microanalysis and global history by assessing
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“Our Sultan Must Preserve His Religion, Just as You Preserve Your Own”: Al-Ghazzāl and the Re-Forging of Islamic Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century Morocco Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Peter Kitlas
Aḥmed al-Ghazzāl served as the Moroccan court’s diplomatic negotiator with Spain between 1766 and 1775. In this role, he communicated regularly with his Spanish counterpart, the Marqués de Grimaldi, leaving behind nearly forty official letters, an unparalleled number in the Moroccan royal archives – the Mudīriyyat al-Wathā’iq al-Malakiyya (MWM). Nevertheless, al-Ghazzāl’s career is consistently overshadowed
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Borders before Nations: Encounters in the Akan and Dzungar Borderlands, 1450–1750 Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Lisa Hellman, Edmond Smith
This article combines the methodological approaches and insights of two scholars working in distinct regions of the early modern world, namely West Africa and Central Asia, to consider border-making outside of Europe before the nation state. Using borders to understand historical developments is not unprecedented and decades of borderland studies have shown how borders result from, and are affected
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Restoring the King’s Creditworthiness in Troubled Times: The Mission of a Polish Prince in Genoa (1776–1777) Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Andrea Zanini
The rumors that accompanied the arrival of Polish nobleman Prince Antoni Sułkowski in Genoa in 1776 offer an opportunity to examine, from a new perspective, the overall complexity behind the challenges a monarch faces when attempting to inspire and regain the faith of foreign investors after a liquidity crisis. Managing creditworthiness became crucial for the Polish king during a period characterized
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Inventing “Early Modern” Europe: Fashioning a New Historical Period in American Historiography 1880–1945 Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Justus Nipperdey
According to perceived wisdom the term “early modern” emerged in the mid-twentieth century and only developed into a meaningful term of periodization in the 1960s and 1970s. In contrast, this article shows that American historians already started to use “early modern” in a substantive way at the turn of the twentieth century. In the interwar years the term permeated all areas of professional activity
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“The Ottoman Revolution of 1661”: The Reconfiguration of Political Power under Mehmed IV and Köprülü Grand Viziers Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Cumhur Bekar
This article examines the rise of the Köprülü grand viziers and their relationship with Sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687) within the context of broader developments in early modern Europe. It challenges the prevailing view that Mehmed IV was a weak Sultan, arguing that at a time of profound crisis the Sultan succeeded in creating a new political system, which simultaneously restored the authority of
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The Map as Missed Cue: England’s Pacific Ambitions as Revealed by Narborough’s Draught of the Port of Baldavia in the Coast of Chile (1670) Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Catherine Burdick
This study analyzes John Narborough’s cartographic chart A Draught of the Port of Baldavia in the Coast of Chile (1670) as a missed cue to a radical reimagining of England’s imperial course in the Pacific sphere. Produced for Charles II, this map placed an optimistic spin on Narborough’s failed attempt to gain a commercial foothold along the Pacific coastline of South America. Its contents provide
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Political and Social Aspects of Godparenthood in Early Modern Venice: Spiritual Kinship and Patrician Society Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Andrew Vidali
In late medieval and early modern Europe, baptism was the object of confrontation between civil society and the Church. This article will outline the involvement of the Venetian government from the early sixteenth century. This legislation, aimed to shape the practice of godparenthood among Venetian patricians in both Venice and its empire, will be examined until the mid-seventeenth century. In particular
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Relics in Exile: A Collection of Armenian Sacred Objects between Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire, 1672–1699 Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Bogdan Pavlish
Despite the historians’ growing interest in material culture, collections of sacred objects have largely been overlooked by scholars of religious history and art history alike. While the former tend to reduce church artifacts to their religious function, the latter focus mostly on individual items of singular artistic import. This essay examines a collection of displaced relics from the perspective
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Religious Identity and Imperial Security: Arming Catholic Slaves in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Portuguese India Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Stephanie Hassell
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enslaved Africans and Asians bolstered the population of Portuguese imperial settlements in India. Purchased for a variety of occupations, their presence partially solved the problem of “peopling the empire” in a context of imperial insecurity. Valued for their capacity to fight in times of crisis, the Portuguese armed their slaves repeatedly. This tendency
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Debates on the Nature of Blood and the Forging of Social Models in Early Modern Spain (1630s) Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Pablo Ortega-del-Cerro, Juan Hernández-Franco
During the early modern period, blood was not only the red fluid that circulates within the body, but also an important cultural and social element. It was a symbol that synthesized and represented the most relevant social principles: individuals, families, and groups were defined according to the alleged nature of their blood, and, thus, it was an important matrix through which society was built and
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The Suspension of the Portuguese Inquisition, 1674 to 1681: The Female Perspective Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Ana Paula Lloyd
Using trials and wills of women arrested in the Portuguese inquisitorial purges of New Christian families between 1672 and 1674, which gave rise to negotiations for a General Pardon and unprecedented suspension of the Inquisition, this article argues that there was a concerted strategy of female education amongst New Christian families, teaching literacy and business savvy to girls. This was not as
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Capuchins, Missionaries, and Slave Trading in Precolonial Kongo-Angola, West Central Africa (17th Century) Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Justine Walden
In the second half of the seventeenth century, Italian Capuchin missionaries who traveled to West Central Africa both colluded in and critiqued Portuguese slave trading practices. Drawing from their experience on slave galleys in the Mediterranean and their medieval Franciscan heritage, Capuchins brought earlier concepts governing enslavement to bear in Central Africa. Examining Capuchin interventions
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Finding Common Ground: Halle Pastors in North America and Their Shifting Stance Towards a Transnational Mission to Native Americans, 1742–1807 Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Markus Berger
While Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg and his pastor colleagues from Halle have gone down in history for their pioneering work – organizing the Lutheran Church on North American soil – they are not known for missionary projects to Native Americans. This article examines how things changed after a second generation of Halle pastors arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1760s. It was, above all, down to Mühlenberg’s
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Immersed in Dependency: American Missionaries, Empires, and India in the 1830s Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Darin D. Lenz
In March of 1831, three American missionary families commenced service with the American Marathi Mission in Bombay. In just over three years, half of the party had died, and the survivors set sail for America. Their story is like what happened to many American missionaries at the end of the long eighteenth century who sought to expand the empire of Christ. From their voyage on the high seas to their
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Introduction: Maritime Missions Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Jenna M. Gibbs, Sünne Juterczenka
The global mission mandate, present in the New Testament and pre-modern Christianity, took on new force in the early modern period. Missionaries promoted the globalization of Christianity, and in so doing contributed to the broadening of intellectual horizons across the world. Often traveling by sea, they were among the first to cover the vast distances that the maritime empires of the eighteenth and
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Mendicants, Minimalism, and Method: Franciscan Scientific Travel in the Early Modern French Atlantic Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Jordan Kellman
This article explores the scientific travels of French members of mendicant orders in the early modern Atlantic World. The Royal Cosmographer André Thevet, the Capuchin Claude D’Abbeville and the Minim Charles Plumier demonstrate a coherent but evolving Franciscan perspective in missionary scientific observation on the colonial frontier. It argues that the Franciscan monastic tradition, the Franciscan
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Paving the Way for Dutch Colonial Missions: Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (c. 1717–1747) and His Defense of Slavery in Context Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Jake Griesel
The ex-slave-turned-missionary Jacobus Capitein (c. 1717–1747) was one of the first Africans to study at a European university and the first to be ordained as a Protestant minister. Capitein is particularly known for his 1742 Leiden University dissertation, which defended slavery as compatible with Christian liberty. This has given rise to the question of whether Capitein should be considered an “Uncle
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Bringing the New World Home: Moravian Gemeintag Meetings and Protestant Pastoral Authority, 1738–1746 Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Benjamin M. Pietrenka
This essay offers the first comparative examination of the German Moravian Gemeintag and British evangelical “Letter Day” meetings in the mid-eighteenth century. Gemeintag meetings established a new, experimental approach to pastoral leadership at gatherings for religious devotion and prayer by endowing the lived spiritual experiences of believers with edificatory and didactic authority. The experiences
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Exploiting the Urban System? The Frictions of Military Finance and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic, 1688–1714 Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Aaron Graham, Jeannette Kamp
This article examines how international military finance operated in the Dutch Republic between 1688–1714. The region’s unique urban geography in which the political and financial infrastructures crucial for military financing were geographically dispersed created stresses and strains. These inconveniences were overcome due to the Republic’s excellent intra-urban infrastructure – creating fast and
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Economic and Social History Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Giorgio Riello
The last quarter of a century has been one of great changes for the field of early modern economic history. My argument is that, in this period, early modern economic history has shown a remarkably innovative spirit. However, this is most apparent not at the core of the discipline, but in how economic history has interacted with other branches of early modern history, be they social, cultural, environmental
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The Global Early Modern Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Rila Mukherjee
This essay, investigating India’s history within the “global early modern” from 1500 to 1800, distinguishes between the “early modern” and the “global early modern.” While the latter label is more inclusive, I conclude that changes visible in earlier periods were more radical, enabling India to participate meaningfully in the “global Middle Ages.” India showed ambivalence in negotiating the “global
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Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History, written by Alan Strathern Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Jonathan Brack
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The First World Empire Portugal, War and Military Revolution, edited by Hélder Carvalhal, André Murteira, and Roger Lee de Jesus Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Christopher Storrs
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Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe, written by Verena Krebs Das andere Christentum. Zur transkonfessionellen Verflechtungsgeschichte von äthiopischer Orthodoxie und europäischem Protestantismus, written by Stanislau Paulau Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Sam Kennerley
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What is Early Modern History?: An Origin Story Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Merry Wiesner-Hanks
AbstractWhat Is Early Modern History?, a volume in the Polity Press “What Is History?” series, is an origin story of the ways historians and those in other fields have seen – and contested – the roots of the modern world and have seen – and contested – whether the period between 1450 and 1800 forms some sort of coherent whole. This essay explains the book’s conceptualization and organization into various
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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Sarah M.S. Pearsall
AbstractThis article, concentrating on trends in the field of gender and sexuality studies of the last decade or so, makes a case for expanding both the geography and the methodology for early modern gender studies, broadly conceived. Themes considered here include the intermingling of the intimate and the imperial as well as marriage, law, slavery and labor, freedom, settler colonialism, intersectionality
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The Journal of Early Modern History, 1994–2010: Some Personal Recollections Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Jim Tracy
AbstractWhen Simon Ditchfield asked me for a contribution to the anniversary issue, it seemed the right occasion for a brief origin story, with reference to some of the many colleagues who had a hand in launching The Journal of Early Modern History.
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Religious, Intellectual, and Cultural History Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Karin Vélez
AbstractInspired by Merry Wiesner-Hanks’ What is Early Modern History? chapter on religious, intellectual, and cultural history, this reflection considers the current state of these three subfields. It advocates for early modern historians to expand their bounding of religion beyond Christianity and Europe. It is also a call to extend the list of agents credited with the production of science, Enlightenment
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The Fall from Grace: Religious Skepticism and Sexuality in the Early Modern Mediterranean World Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Umberto Grassi
AbstractThis article explores the relationship between skepticism and sexual nonconformity in Italy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In the inquisitorial cases under examination, the praise of sexual freedom was supported by a heretical re-reading of the myth of the Fall from Grace. The criticism of religious deception is the link between sexual freedom and skepticism: these dissenters
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The “Sheep” and the “Lion”: Charles V, Barbarossa, and Habsburg Diplomatic Practice in the Muslim Mediterranean (1534-1542) Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Francesco Caprioli
AbstractBetween the 1530s and the 1540s, the Emperor Charles V tried to win over the Ottoman Grand Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa, leading him to defect from the Ottoman cause and turn him into a faithful Habsburg warlord. In exchange for this, the former would have given the latter the opportunity to rule over the Central Maghreb as a new Habsburg ally. Obviously, both sides managed this negotiation
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Accountable Creatures: Primatt’s Dissertation, the Religious Enlightenment, and the Origins of Animal Rights Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Ran Segev
AbstractOutside the field of animal studies, Humphrey Primatt’s Duty of Mercy has received little attention. This article offers a new perspective on his work by contextualizing Primatt’s ecological worldview within Enlightenment debates about the “essence of mankind.” I argue that Primatt’s call to extend “rights” to all creatures was a deliberate attempt to redraw the contested borders between humans
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The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe, written by Mårten Söderblom Saarela Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Elif Akcetin
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution, written by Toby Green Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Rebecca Shumway
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Food, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy, written by Allen J. Grieco Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Eric Dursteler
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The Persianate World. Rethinking a Shared Sphere, edited by Abbas Amanat and Assef Ashraf Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Jagjeet Lally
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Missionare in Persien. Kulturelle Diversität und Normenkonkurrenz im globalen Katholizismus (17.–18. Jahrhundert), written by Christian Windler Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Fabian Fechner
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Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism, written by Erin Kathleen Rowe “Black but Human”: Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480–1700, written by Carmen Fracchia Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Baltasar Fra-Molinero
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Consuls and Captives. Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean, written by Erica Heinsen-Roach Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Constantine Theodoridis
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Passing the Baton at the Journal of Early Modern History Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Giancarlo Casale,Katharine Gerbner
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Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe, written by Miri Rubin Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Beatriz E. Salamanca
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Huguenot Contributions to English Pan-Protestantism, 1685-1700 Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 William H. F. Mitchell
AbstractFollowing the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, hundreds of thousands of French refugees sought shelter in Protestant states like the United Provinces and England. In England, the influx of Huguenots contributed significantly towards the argument for greater pan-Protestant engagement with the European continent. Huguenot-authored pamphlets advertised Catholic barbarity, deepening pre-existing
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Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India. Francisco Ros SJ in Malabar (16th–17th Centuries), written by Antony Mecherry, S.J. Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Ananya Chakravarti
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Exceptional Papers for Exceptional Needs: Travel Patents, Identification, and Mobility in the Early Modern Mediterranean Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Ian F. Hathaway
AbstractThis essay explores a collection of over two thousand “travel patents” issued during the sixteenth century by the chanceries of the Republic of Venice and the Order of St. John of Rhodes and Malta. Far from being the equivalent of modern passports, these papers were ad hoc concessions of exceptional travel rights. The article’s systematic comparative approach shows that magistrates in Venice
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Who Owned Florence?: Religious Institutions and Property Ownership in the Early Modern City Journal of Early Modern History (IF 0.395) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Justine Walden,Nicholas Terpstra
AbstractThis study employs a 1561 tax census to survey estimated property incomes in Florence with particular attention to lay and ecclesiastical religious institutions. Its key findings are five. First, religious institutions were collectively the wealthiest corporate entities in the city, holding one fifth of all residential properties and one third of all workshops, and drawing 20.2 percent of all