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Book SynopsisWhat did it mean 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. Edited by Nandini Das, the twenty-four essays by João Vicente Melo, Tom Roberts, Haig Smith, Emily Stevenson, and Lauren Working 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 readers interested in questions of race, belonging, and human identity.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
In and Out of State
Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (1538–1612)
Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (1543–1588)
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar (1567–1626)
Anna of Denmark (1574–1619)
Robert Shirley (c.1581–1628)
Catherine of Braganza (1638–1705)
Intellectual Exchange
John Florio (c.1552–1625)
Anthony Knivet (1577–1649)
Aletheia Howard, Countess of Arundel (1585–1654)
John Durie [Dury] (1596–1680)
Edward Pococke (1604–1691)
Virginia Ferrar (1627–1688)
Conversions and Conversations
Robert Parsons (1546–1610)
Thomas Stephens (c.1549–1619)
Luisa De Carvajal y Mendoza (1566–1614)
Henry Lord (fl.1624–1630)
Roger Williams (c.1606–1683)
Peter Pope (fl.1614–1622)
Managing Liminality
Roderigo Lopez (c.1525–1594)
Mark Anthony Bassano (c.1546–1599)
Esther Gentili (d.1649)
Teresia Sampsonia Shirley (c.1589–1668)
Pocahontas (c.1595–1617)
Corey the Saldanian (d. c.1627)
