" The figure of the renegade-a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and
was now serving the Ottoman sultan-is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early …

The editors would like to thank a number of people who have been essential in making this
book possible. At first, we are grateful to the Cluster of Excellence for bringing together such …

This article examines practices of international diplomacy at the Indian Mughal court as a
crucial intercultural contact zone; in particular, various perspectives on greeting ceremonies …

In the light of the current political debate regarding refugees from the Middle East in the
European Union, Christianity is being more discussed and is claimed as being a European …

Der Band unternimmt den epochenübergreifenden Versuch, unterschiedliche Monarchien
der Vormoderne hinsichtlich der Funktionsweise ihres politischen Systems transkulturell …

The notion of plurality amongst the Indian population is one of the most prominent features
of early modern German discourse on India. This article combines the concepts …

El presente trabajo busca recentrar y localizar la visita realizada por el corregidor de Potosí
y teniente de virrey don Pedro Osores de Ulloa en 1596 en la frontera de Tomina …

This book on the relationship between rulers and elites in Eurasian polities started out as an
attempt to bridge the gap between two contradictory but equally valid impulses. All history is …

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website
and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. This book …

This article focuses on the issue of data modeling from a historian's point of view and
analyzes the development of a relational data base for court records from 18th‐century …