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  • Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire

    A Traveller's Guide

    by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield ...
    Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire is a compact and informative guide to the ways in which the world was understood and imagined by British travellers and readers in the Tudor and Jacobean period, just before the rapid expansion of the transoceanic British Empire from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. The book shows how the relatively restricted English-speaking world ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Writing Tudor Exploration

    Richard Eden and West Africa

    by Matthew Dimmock ...
    Series series Elements in Travel Writing
    Richard Eden's Decades has long been recognised as a landmark in the translation and circulation of information concerning the Americas in England. What is often overlooked in Eden's book is the presence of the first two Tudor voyage accounts to have been committed to print, assembled in haste and added late in the printing process. Both concern English commercial ventures to the West African ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels

    Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology

    Edited by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield ...
    A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade links, such as Turkey and the Moluccan islands, and of places that featured ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • New Turkes

    Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England

    by Matthew Dimmock ...
    Early Modern England was obsessed with the 'turke'. Following the first Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529 the printing presses brought endless prayer sheets, pamphlets and books concerning this 'infidel' threat before the public in the vernacular for the first time. As this body of knowledge increased, stimulated by a potent combination of domestic politics, further Ottoman incursions and trade, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture

    by Matthew Dimmock ...
    The figure of 'Mahomet' was widely known in early modern England. A grotesque version of the Prophet Muhammad, Mahomet was a product of vilification, caricature and misinformation placed at the centre of Christian conceptions of Islam. In Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture Matthew Dimmock draws on an eclectic range of early modern sources - literary, historical, ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex

    Culture and Conflict

    by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex is an interdisciplinary study of a county at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England. Ranging from the schism of Reformation to the outbreak of Civil War, the volume brings together scholars from the fields of art history, religious and intellectual history and English literature to offer new ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven

    A Critical Edition

    Edited by Matthew Dimmock ...
    William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven (1601) is extraordinary. Not only is it the only early modern play purportedly based upon the Qur'an, but it is also the first to place the Prophet Muhammad on the stage. While there existed a remarkable range of texts concerning Islamic characters and themes in Renaissance England, from chronicles and pamphlets to popular drama, the publication of this ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England

    Edited by Andrew Hadfield, Matthew Dimmock, Abigail Shinn ...
    The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England

    by Andrew Hadfield ...
    1978 witnessed the publication of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Now in its third edition this remarkable book has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its wide ranging and imaginative exploration of early modern European popular culture. In order to celebrate this achievement, and to explore the ways in which perceptions of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam

    by Jerry Brotton ...
    The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth’s secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve MapsWe think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas, but when Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen, it was just a tiny and rebellious Protestant island on the ... Read more

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  • Adventurers

    The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650

    by David Howarth ...
    The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansionThe East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for new forms of investment, not least in ... Read more

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  • The Problem Plays of Shakespeare

    A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra

    by Ernest Schanzer ...
    The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's ... Read more

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