FRENCH TRAVELLERS IN INDIA
Two decades after the first visit of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and six years after François Bernier, a traveller named Jean de Thévenot arrived in Surat in 1666 during Aurangzeb’s reign.
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Welcome to the blog of the Society for Early Modern Studies: Everything early modern!
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SEMS Lecture Series launching this month!
The Society for Early Modern Studies welcomes all to our Lecture Series! At regular intervals, invited speakers will deliver lectures on various aspects of the early modern period. Registration for the first event shall open soon, with our first speaker,…
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
John Donne’s Biathanatos Doyeeta Majumdar “nothing that we call sin is so against nature, but that it may be sometimes agreeable to nature” Biathanatos, I.i.7 When Hamlet muses upon “a consummation devoutly to be wished” (III.i), suicide was considered a…
THE EXAMINATIONS OF ANNE ASKEW
Debapriya Basu “Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed no ladies nor gentlewomen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time. And because I lay still and did not cry, my…
Text of the Month (ToteM) series launch!
Hello everyone, and welcome to the brand new blog of the Society for Early Modern Studies (SEMS). We flag off our blog this May with an exciting new series: Text of the Month or ToteM! As the title says, each…