Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on th

It will be of interest to all those interested in questions of early modern contact history, English relations with Islam and the East, English theater history,

The true, though well-embellished, story of the seventeenth-century English celebrity pirate, John Ward (later Yusuf Rais), who shocked Jacobean England by conv

Focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe’s most pressing issues, the present book offers a comprehensive reading of artistic and literary ways in

This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and