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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsOct 26

New blog post! MEMOs research team member Dr Önder Çakırtaş examines the use of the Ottoman word 'Chiaus (Çavuş)' in Ben Jonson's 'The Alchemist' - From Ottoman Envoy to English Swindler: The Significance of “Chiaus (Çavuş)” in The Alchemist memorients.com/articles/from…

From Ottoman Envoy to English Swindler: The Significance of “Chiaus (Çavuş)” in The Alchemist |...

In Jonson’s play, chiaus becomes a linguistic shortcut through which the cultural Other is invoked, simplified, and made available for comic purposes.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsOct 12

Dr Emily Stevenson discusses Westminster School's 1565/6 Christmas play, a Jerusalem-set extravaganza, in today's MEMOries post. memorients.com/articles/stag…

Staging Jerusalem: Westminster School and Sapientia Solomonis | MEMOs

In choosing Jerusalem as a setting and spending considerable sums of money on staging it, the school hoped to create a spectacular and multi-sensory experience

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsOct 5

A brief introduction to early modern Ottoman music is the subject of our new blog post today from MEMOs team member Dr Murat Öğütcü memorients.com/articles/earl… @MuratOgutcu1985

Early Modern Ottoman Music: An Introduction | MEMOs

Central to Ottoman music is the makam (maqam) system, which is a modal framework defined by specific interval structures.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsSep 28

Transgression and Passing in María de Zayas’s “La esclava de su amante”- today's MEMOries post by Reem Taha memorients.com/articles/tran…

Transgression and Passing in María de Zayas’s “La esclava de su amante” | MEMOs

The Mediterranean serves as a space in which histories, including personal histories, converge but also disintegrate.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsSep 21

Today's brand new blog post from our founding editor Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami @Lubaabanama invites us to consider the shadow of Islamic Worlds cast over Shakespeare's "The Tempest" memorients.com/articles/the-…

The Tempest’s Islamic Ghosts | MEMOs

The Barbary powers are a non-negotiable part of the Mediterranean who are engaged with and even married into.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsSep 14

Today's MEMOries post by Professor Chloë Houston explores the richness of early modern Persian literary culture as seen through the lens of European travel writing. memorients.com/articles/not-…

‘Not many Bookes’? Persian Literary Culture in Early Modern European Travel Writing | MEMOs

The manuscript text was everywhere in Persia, and it was highly prized and respected.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsSep 7

The power of proverbs to transcend cultures is explored in today's MEMOries post on the eighteenth century publication of 'Sentences of Ali' memorients.com/articles/sent…

'Sentences of Ali' (1717) and the Wisdom of the Arabs | MEMOs

The Islamic dimension of this wisdom was, far from causing some sort of religious anxiety, accepted and embraced

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsAug 24

Today's MEMOrients post follows the extraordinary journey of an early modern Morisco to Morocco, and his writings which straddled two worlds. memorients.com/articles/emig…

Emigrating to God: A Morisco’s Extraordinary Journey in the Mediterranean and Beyond | MEMOs

Even though al-Ḥajarī left his birth home in pursuit of religious freedom, he saw the whole world as his home, so long as he could worship God.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsAug 10

Dr Emily Soon takes the tiny treasure that is the clove and examines its impact on early modern English literature in today's new blog post. memorients.com/articles/tiny…

Tiny Treasures: Cloves in Early Modern English Literature | MEMOs

This Southeast Asian spice not only sparked fierce international competition, but also featured within the literature of the Global Renaissance

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsAug 3

The Nawab, the Surgeon, and the Parrot: guest contributor Dr Kristof Szitar traces the journey of a Persian manuscript from South India to Hungary (via an English surgeon) in today's new blog post. memorients.com/articles/the-…

The Nawab, the Surgeon, and the Parrot: A Persian Manuscript Between Arcot and Northumbria | MEMOs

The manuscript reveals the overlooked role played by colonial intermediaries, such as surgeons, in moving Persianate objects into European collections.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsJul 27

From our archives to the state archives of Türkiye, read today's blog post by Dr Murat Öğütcü: memorients.com/articles/the-…

The State Archives of Türkiye: A Short Introduction | MEMOs

This very brief introductory blog will help early-career researchers in the real or digital shelves of the Ottoman Archives.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsJul 13

Race and Religion in Robert Daborne's 'A Christian Turn'd Turk'- today's blog from the MEMOs archives by MEMOs research editor Dr Hassana Moosa memorients.com/articles/race…

Race and Religion in Robert Daborne's 'A Christian Turn'd Turk' | MEMOs

Daborne invites the audience to imagine Ward as black, and to see Islamic conversion as a change that can somatically mark an Englishman as black

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsJul 6

Today's MEMOrients post from team member Dr Nia Deliana looks at South Indians and the power politics of tin in the mid seventeenth century. memorients.com/articles/sout…

South Indians and the Power Politics of Tin 1651-1663 | MEMOs

Positioning themselves in the middle path between the local sovereignty and the global world, South Indians' roles rose to political and economic advisers.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsJun 29

Today's powerful new blog post by MEMOs founding editor Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami explores the bearing and raising of children as acts of community resistance in the face of genocide in Gaza and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. memorients.com/articles/gaza…

Gaza to Titus Andronicus: Children on the Frontline of Genocide | MEMOs

In genocidal circumstances, life, survival and continuity are themselves acts of resistance.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsJun 15

Monday is blog day, and today's MEMOries blog post explores the Habshi rule of Bengal. memorients.com/articles/the-…

The Habshi Rule of Bengal | MEMOs

Bengal’s diverse population shows that we are made up of complex racial mixtures, which, no doubt, are the results of centuries of intermixing.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsJun 8

Today's Monday helping from the MEMOs blog archives discusses the representation of military techniques from the Islamic world in early modern English war manuals: memorients.com/articles/turk…

Turks, Arabs, and Infidels in War Manuals in Early Modern England: Bows over Firearms | MEMOs

Most contemporary war literature praised Islamic regions for their use of multiple military techniques that incorporated the old and the new.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsMay 25

The Incomparable Urania: Part two of @NatCutter 's blog follows the remarkable journey of Edith Stedham's daughter Urania, Tunis-born and London-migrated: memorients.com/articles/the-…

The Incomparable Urania: A Tunis-Born Daughter | MEMOs

Tunis-born and London-migrated, she was something the period had no ready category for.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsMay 18

New blog post 📢📢 MEMOs team member @NatCutter gives us the true and gripping tale of an Englishwoman in Ottoman Tunis, Edith Stedham. Part Two next week! memorients.com/articles/edit…

Edith Stedham, Consolessa: An Englishwoman in Ottoman Tunis | MEMOs

These British women actively shaped the mercantile and diplomatic activities that linked the Maghreb to Britain and the wider Mediterranean world.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsMay 4

A gem from our MEMOries archive for you! Tangier: Morocco and the Limits of Empire in the Reign of Charles II memorients.com/articles/tang…

Tangier: Morocco and the Limits of Empire in the Reign of Charles II | MEMOs

Perhaps counterintuitively in imperial terms, Tangier’s prospects suffered from its unique institutional position.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)@MEMOrientsApr 27

Today's MEMOries blog post takes us to the Thames for imagined depictions of England's triumph over the Turks. memorients.com/articles/text

Thames Pageants and Thomas Sherley: Real versus Imagined Anglo-Ottoman Encounters | MEMOs

Thus, the pageants voiced hopes, rather than realities, for the defeat of the Turk at the hands of a united Christendom.

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