A Companion to the Global Renaissance

Subjects: LCSH: English literature–Early modern, 1500-1700–History and criticism. | Globalization in literature. | Literature and society. | Renaissance–England.

Classification: LCC DA320 .C656 2021 (print) | LCC DA320 (ebook) | DDC 909/.5–dc23

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1 Cover

2 Series page

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 List of Illustrations

6 Notes on Contributors

7 Acknowledgments

8 Preface

9 Introduction: The Global Renaissance

10 Part I: Mapping the Global Chapter 1: The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon Chapter 2: “Travailing” Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject Chapter 3: Islam and Tamburlaine’s World-Picture Chapter 4: Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period Chapter 5: Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia

11 Part II: “Contact Zones” Chapter 6: “Apes of Imitation”: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India Chapter 7: Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer Chapter 8: Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608–1611 Chapter 9: Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom João de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges Chapter 10: The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns Chapter 11: The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire Chapter 12: The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan Chapter 13: Placing Iceland Chapter 14: East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553–1603 Chapter 15: Connected Political Imaginaries: The Shaˉhnaˉmah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599–1628

12 Part III: “To Live by Traffic”: Global Networks of Exchange Chapter 16: The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India Chapter 17: Hakluyt’s Books and Hawkins’ Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560–1600 Chapter 18: Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s “Infidel” Trade Chapter 19: Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, The Gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser’s Faerie Queene Chapter 20: “So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous”: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England Chapter 21: Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Chapter 22: “The Whole Globe of the Earth”: Almanacs and Their Readers Chapter 23: Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-Book Cosmopolitan Chapter 24: A Multinational Corporation: Labor and Ethnicity in the London East India Company Chapter 25: Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham’s The Art of English Poesie (1589)

13 Part IV: The Globe Staged Chapter 26: Bettrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy Chapter 27: The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta Chapter 28: Local–Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism Chapter 29: Staging the Global in the Street: Spices, London Companies, and Thomas Middleton’s The Triumphs of Honor and Industry

14 Afterword: Lyric Poetics for the Global Renaissance

15 Index

16 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 00.1 Elizabeth I, Armada Portrait, attributed to George Gower, c. 1588. Woburn...

2 Chapter 55.1 Frontispiece of volume 1 of Molina, De iustitia et iure (Cuenca, 1593)....

3 Chapter 66.1 Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, by Bichitr, c.1615–16...

4 Chapter 77.1 Kano Naizen (1570–1616), Nanban-jin [Southern Barbarians] disembar...7.2 The Dutch Procession to Edo. MS Sloane 3060 f. 501. © British Libra...7.3 Kaempfer dances and sings for Tsunayoshi. MS Sloane 3060 f. 514. © ...

5 Chapter 88.1 Teresia, Countess of Shirley, attributed to William Larkin, c. 1611...

6 Chapter 99.1 Jahangir in a Garden, attributed to Manohar, c. 1610–1615. Victori...

7 Chapter 1212.1 1707 map of Japan, with a cartouche representing the audience of Will...

8 Chapter 1313.1 From Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (London, c.1607), plate...

9 Chapter 1515.1 Sir Robert Sherley c. 1627. © Image courtesy of the Trustees of t...

10 Chapter 1616.1 Willem Schellinks, Shah Jahan and his Four Sons. Musée Guimet, Pa...16.2 Willem Schellinks, Parade of the Sons of Shah Jahan on Composite Hors...16.3 Willem Schellinks, Hunting Scene with Shah Jahan and his Sons. Museum...16.4 Hans Jurriaenszoon van Baden, Interior of the Amsterdam Theatre. Repro...16.5 S. Savry, Het toneel van de eerste Amsterdamse Schouwburg, engraving...

11 Chapter 1717.1 Original Grant of Arms to John Hawkins, 1565, with the Augmentation...17.2 Pen and Ink Sketch of the Hawkins Arms. College of Arms MS Misc. Gran...

12 Chapter 1919.1 Mexican Sacrifice based on José de Acosta’s descriptions; T...

13 Chapter 2020.1 A clipped French crown and a counterfeit portague. Reproduced by permi...

14 Chapter 2323.1 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Merchant in Constantinople, Degli Habiti ant...23.2 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Prussian Merchant, Degli Habiti antichi et m...23.3 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Merchant Noblewoman of Genoa, Degli Habiti a...23.4 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Woman Merchant of Silesia, Degli Habiti anti...23.5 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Sultan Amurhat, Degli Habiti antichi et mode...23.6 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Janissary Soldier, Degli Habiti antichi et m...23.7 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Turk in the Rain, Degli Habiti antichi et mo...23.8 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, A Turkish Woman, Degli Habiti antichi et mod...

15 Chapter 2424.1 The Great Market at Bantam, from Willem Lodewijckszoon, Historie van I...

16 Chapter 2626.1 Richard Brathwaite’s The Honest Ghost or a Voice From the Vault. R...

17 Chapter 2828.1 Pieter Breugel’s engraving, Big Fishes Eat the Little Fishes. Inv....

1 Cover

2 Series page

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 Table of Contents

6 List of Illustrations

7 Notes on Contributors

8 Acknowledgments

9 Preface

10 Introduction: The Global Renaissance

11 Begin Reading

12 Afterword: Lyric Poetics for the Global Renaissance

13 Index

14 End User License Agreement

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