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oapen-20.500.12657-536822022-06-10T07:48:17Z Lives in Transit in Early Modern England Das, Nandini early modern, migration, transculturality, early modern race, biography, micro-history, global connections, cross-cultural encounter bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history What did it mean in practice to be a ‘go-between’ in the early modern world? How were such figures perceived in sixteenth and seventeenth century England? And what effect did their movement between languages, countries, religions and social spaces – whether enforced or voluntary – have on the ways in which people navigated questions of identity and belonging? Lives in Transit in Early Modern England is a work of interdisciplinary scholarship which examines how questions of mobility and transculturality were negotiated in practice in the early modern world. Its twenty-four case studies cover a wide range of figures from different walks of life and corners of the globe, ranging from ambassadors to Amazons, monarchs to missionaries, translators to theologians. Together, the essays in this volume provide an invaluable resource for people interested in questions of race, belonging, and human identity. 2022-04-01T14:26:15Z 2022-04-01T14:26:15Z 2022 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53682 eng Connected Histories in the Early Modern World application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048556663.pdf Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463725989 10.5117/9789463725989 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a H2020 European Research Council European Research Council (ERC) Amsterdam University Press 6 198 Amsterdam 681884 Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, c.1550–1700 open access
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What did it mean in practice to be a ‘go-between’ in the early modern world? How were such figures perceived in sixteenth and seventeenth century England? And what effect did their movement between languages, countries, religions and social spaces – whether enforced or voluntary – have on the ways in which people navigated questions of identity and belonging? Lives in Transit in Early Modern England is a work of interdisciplinary scholarship which examines how questions of mobility and transculturality were negotiated in practice in the early modern world. Its twenty-four case studies cover a wide range of figures from different walks of life and corners of the globe, ranging from ambassadors to Amazons, monarchs to missionaries, translators to theologians. Together, the essays in this volume provide an invaluable resource for people interested in questions of race, belonging, and human identity.
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