Contributors identified only by name explore the accommodation people made when given the choice between fighting--perhaps dying--for their faith and just keeping quiet until the regime changed again.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, people, objects, and texts travelled around the world aboard Dutch ships. This book explores how these circulations transformed the knowledge in Asian and European soci
"Anthropology is a notoriously polysemous term. Within a continental European academic context, it is usually employed in the sense of philosophical anthropology, and mainly concerned with exploring c
During the latter half of the 16th century, translations into English were not only produced on an unprecedented scale, they also became a key site for critical debate about authorship, style, and spe
To picture the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity. In early modernity, however, thetheatrum mundi became a particularly prominent metaphor, especially in England where it w
