A Companion to the Global Renaissance

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An innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture of globalization across the early modern world, now in its second edition A Companion to the Global Renaissanceprovides readers with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of both macro and micro perspectives on the commercial and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Covering a uniquely broad range of literary and cultural materials, historical contexts, and geographical regions, the Companion's varied chapters offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the implications of early modern concepts of commerce, material and artistic culture, cross-racial encounters, conquest and enslavement, social, artistic, and religious cross-pollinations, geographical "discoveries, " and more. Building upon the success of its predecessor, A Companion to the Global Renaissance, Second Edition radically extends its scope by moving beyond England and English culture. Newly-commissioned essays investigate intercultural and intra-cultural exchanges, transactions, and encounters involving England, European powers, Eastern empires, Africa, and Islamic kingdoms. The essays provide new cross-disciplinary and intercultural frameworks that explore topics such as gendered transculturation in Eurasia, global lyric transmissions across cultures, representations of "others" in Mediterranean contexts, transatlantic and Eurasian slave trades, and western knowledge production of Japan. Offering a complex and multifaceted view of early modern globalization, this new edition: * Demonstrates the global "turn" in Early Modern Studies through original essays exploring interconnected exchanges, transactions, and encounters * Provides significantly expanded coverage of global interactions involving England, European powerssuch as Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands, Eastern empires such as Japan, andIslamic kingdoms including the Ottoman, Safavid, andMughal empires * Includes a Preface (new), an Afterword (new) and a revised and expanded introduction summarizing the evolving field of Global Early Modern Studies and describing the motifs and methodologies informing the essays within the volume * Explores an array of new topics, including Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Mughal exchanges with the English and Europeans, circulation of commodities in global economies of exchange, Safavid cultural dissemination, and early modern drama A wide-ranging account of the global expansions and interactions of the period, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion 1500-1700, Second Edition remainsessential reading for early modern scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced specialists in the field.