A Companion to the Global Renaissance

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A COMPANION TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE. LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN THE ERA OF EXPANSION, 1500–1700

Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Preface

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

Introduction The Global Renaissance

I Globes

II The Global Renaissance

III Chapter Summaries

Mapping the Global

“Contact Zones”

“To Live by Traffic:” Global Networks of Exchange

The Globe Staged

Afterword

Acknowledgments

NOTES

References and Further Reading

1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

2 “Travailing” Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

3 Islam and Tamburlaine’s World-Picture

I The Orbicular Renaissance

II Marlowe, Islam, and the Image

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period

I Introduction: The Global Context

II Utopian Contexts: Lucian and Travel

III Utopia and Travel

IV The Early Seventeenth Century: Bacon and Andreae

V Travel and Utopia: Global Discourses

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

5 Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia

I Molina and Slavery

II Asian Contact Zones in the Early Modern Slave Trade

III India

IV Southeast Asia

V Japan and China

VI Conclusions

Acknowledgments

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

6 “Apes of Imitation”: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India

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III

NOTES

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7 Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer

I Luis Frois

II Engelbert Kaempfer

III Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

8 Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608–1611

I Deconstructing “East” and “West” in Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies

II A Circassian-Persian Woman’s Subaltern Perspective on Multiple “Easts”

III A Circassian-Persian Woman in a Polish Convent

Acknowledgments

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

9 Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom João de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges

I Introduction

II Becoming Mughal

III The Jesuit and the Royal Confidant

IV Becoming Dom João de Távora

V Final Remarks

Acknowledgments

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

Printed Sources

Secondary Sources

10 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns

I Travel Relations

II The Sagittary, or Sodomy’s Inevitable Narrative

III Transvestite Innkeepers

IV The Seraglio and International Affairs

V Race and the Queer Moor

NOTES

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11 The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire

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12 The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan

I Introduction

II Adams’s Politics of Identity

III Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

13 Placing Iceland

I History

II Practice

III The “Commentary”

IV Closing Remarks

Acknowledgments

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

14 East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553–1603

I A Second Cold War?

II By Sea to Cathay

III Hakluyt and Books to Build an Empire

IV By Way of Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

15 Connected Political Imaginaries: The Shāhnāmah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599–1628

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NOTES

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16 The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India

I Introduction

Travels

II Schellinks and the Sister Arts

An Ode to Indian Painting

III All the World’s a Stage

Schellinks’ Sources

Mise en Scène

IV Conclusion

Acknowledgments

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

17 Hakluyt’s Books and Hawkins’ Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560–1600

I Introduction

II Hakluyt’s Books and Hawkins’ African Captives

III “A Demy moore in his proper culler bounde in a corde as bonde & captiue”: The Award of Arms to John Hawkins

Acknowledgments

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

18 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s “Infidel” Trade

I Gawds

II Lead, Vittaile, and Ordenance

III Stranger Exchanges

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING. Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

19 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, The Gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser’s Faerie Queene

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

20 “So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous”: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England

I Corrupt Foreign Coins

II Foreign Coins and Class Difference

III Corrupt English Coins and Tensions of Globalization

Acknowledgments

NOTES

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21 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

22 “The Whole Globe of the Earth”: Almanacs and Their Readers

NOTES

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23 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-Book Cosmopolitan

NOTES

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24 A Multinational Corporation: Labor and Ethnicity in the London East India Company

I The Directors in London

II “The English Nation at Bantam”

III Reckoning with Workers and Aliens

IV The Loss of the Trades Increase

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

25 Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham’s The Art of English Poesie (1589)

Appendix: Puttenham’s Four Oriental Visual Poems Approximately Reproduced (Puttenham, 77–78)

NOTES

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26 Bettrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy

I Props

II Monkeys

III Eastward Ho

IV Geography

V Coda

NOTES

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27 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta

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NOTES

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28 Local–Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism

I Greek Romance and English Social Change

II Communal Ideology and Popular Culture

III The Fishermen, Labor, and Agrarian Complaint

IV Performance and Social Relations in the Brothel

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

29 Staging the Global in the Street: Spices, London Companies, and Thomas Middleton’s The Triumphs of Honor and Industry

I Spices, Diet, and Physic

II Staging Indians and the Spice Trade

III Civic Space, Culinary Experiments, and The Triumphs of Honor and Industry

NOTES

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

Afterword Lyric Poetics for the Global Renaissance

NOTES

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Index

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While we typically think of the age of discovery in terms of English (and European) expansion to the West (the New World) and the East (the Old World), the next two essays map the trajectory of England’s commercial and political interests in “contact zones” directed to the North Seas and beyond. Mary C. Fuller’s essay “Placing Iceland” (Chapter 13) examines the shifting perceptions of Iceland in the early modern period. Focusing on The Commentary of Island (or Brevis commentaries de Islandia) by Arngrimur Jónsson, published in both English and Latin in Hakluyt’s multivolume Principal Navigations (1598–1600), Fuller places this narrative within a network of discourses and practices: commercial, historical/mythical, religious, cultural, and cartographic.

Iceland was “known” in early modern England through multiple histories and through both popular and learned knowledge, yet it remained in important ways unknown and obscure. Hakluyt’s medieval materials made Iceland part of a “legendary, archipelagic greater Britain, first subject to King Arthur” even as they recalled in more fragmentary ways a history of conquest by the Norse. In the practical terms of global long-distance trade, Iceland was the site of a productive English fishery. Yet despite its integration into a network of fisheries that linked ports from Newfoundland to Norway, Iceland seemed infinitely remote to European cosmographers, who represented it as a land of natural and supernatural marvels and of uncultured peoples. Jónsson’s Commentary of Island sets out not to narrate another voyage but to debunk xenophobic theories about Iceland’s geography and culture shaped by its distance from Europe and its northern position. Rather than a land of natural and supernatural marvels and barbarous living, he insisted, Iceland was a land of virtuous austerity and pure Christianity. Alone among the ethnographic materials printed by Hakluyt, Commentary writes back against a European discourse that had framed its culture of origin in exoticized and often xenophobic terms. It educates its Renaissance readers to see Iceland not as a remote and barbarous place, as “other,” but as a Protestant nation closely linked to England.

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