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AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
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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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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New jobs in medieval, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and art history! 🧵 memorients.com/news/washing...
Washington and Lee University - Assistant Professor of Medieval European History | MEMOs
Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA, USA)
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MEMOs researchers at the World Shakespeare Congress 2026 in fair Verona! Their seminars covered Shakespeare through global crises to global cinema. #earlymodern
Delighted to receive an Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship for my upcoming visit to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and Scottish rare books collections! @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social
Australian Academy of the Humanities@humanitiesau.bsky.social · 2w agoThe AAH is thrilled to announce the 8 recipients of the 2026 Humanities Travelling Fellowships. The Fellowships will enable the humanities researchers to undertake critical projects which will generate new insights, and forge global connections. 👉 bit.ly/4wktbB0 @natcutter.bsky.social
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/rac...
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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Today's MEMOries 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/sou...
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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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/gaz...
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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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: #earlymodern memorients.com/articles/tur...
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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OK #MedievalSky and #Skystorians: early career job klaxon! A post on my new project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain', 30 months (with poss. of extension). Details at jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @royalhistsoc.org @memorients.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Eid Mubarak! Image: Mughal Emperor Jahangir at a gathering for Eid (1615-1625)
Join @amandajsummers.bsky.social and I at RSA in Philly next year! Send us your abstracts by July 31st 🥳
The Incomparable Urania: Part two of Dr Nat Cutter'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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The Incomparable Urania: Part two of Dr Nat Cutter'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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New blog post 📢📢 MEMOs team member Dr Nat Cutter (@natcutter.bsky.social ) gives us the true and gripping tale of an Englishwoman in Ottoman Tunis, Edith Stedham. Part Two next week! #earlymodern memorients.com/articles/edi...
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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Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Global Medieval History University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in Global Medieval History
Are you an academic with proven abilities to carry out research and teaching in global medieval history? Do you have an established background in interdisciplinary global medieval studies? Are you est...
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New cluster of jobs! Lecturer in Global Medieval History, Uni of Leeds: memorients.com/news/lecture...
Lecturer in Global Medieval History, Uni of Leeds | MEMOs
Lecturer in Global Medieval History, Uni of Leeds (UK)
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#earlymodern BlueSky: I'm teaching Renaissance and Reformation Europe for the first time this coming fall and need some ideas for a sourcebook of primary sources on the Reformation (would also appreciate Ren recs). So far I'm thinking this one from Routledge? www.routledge.com/Global-Refor...
Global Reformations Sourcebook: Convergence, Conversion, and Conflict in Early Modern Religious Encounters
This volume of primary sources brings together letters, memoirs, petitions, tracts, and stories related to religion and reform around the globe from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Th...
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A gem from our MEMOries archive for you! Tangier: Morocco and the Limits of Empire in the Reign of Charles II (@roperlou.bsky.social) memorients.com/articles/tan...
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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Today's MEMOries blog post takes us to the Thames for imagined depictions of England's triumph over the Turks. memorients.com/articles/tex...
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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Today's MEMOries post examines Sir Thomas Herbert's writings based on his travels through Persia and beyond. memorients.com/articles/sir...
Sir Thomas Herbert's 'Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique', 1627-30 | MEMOs
Through writers like Herbert, however, we can detect the emergence of more complex and variegated English understandings of Islam
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Join us on May 22nd for a workshop on early modern North Africa and the Iberian Atlantic. Online and in person!
Ana Struillou@anastruillou.bsky.social · 4mo ago/// WORKSHOP // Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions between the Iberian Atlantic and the Maghrib Co-organised by Kaja Cook and I @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on 22 May Supported by @cemskcl.bsky.social and @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
📢 New blog alert! MEMOs News Editor Jessica Minieri (@jessicaminieri.bsky.social) takes us into the fascinating world of bodily relics in The Body of a Crusader King: The Relics of Louis IX of France between Tunisia and Sicily. memorients.com/articles/the...
The Body of a Crusader King: The Relics of Louis IX of France between Tunisia and Sicily | MEMOs
Upon Louis’s death in 1270, his bones, entrails, and heart were dissected and boiled to ensure that they could be moved back to France and buried locally.
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We've also posted this cluster of postdocs at the Foundazione Bruno Kessler. Learn more below:
H-Sicily on H-Net@hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW POST: Travellers' Interactions in Early Modern Italy (TRAVEL) Project, Postdoctoral Fellowships (3), Fondazione Bruno Kessler. See the full post and call on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
NEW POST: Call for Papers: Fatimid Sicily – History, Memory, and Legacy. See the full post and call for papers on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Congratulations to four members of our Research Team on the publication of their new books! memorients.com/news/memos-t...
MEMOs Team Member New Book Publications, Winter and Spring 2026 | MEMOs
New Works: The Ocean Remembers, Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, Performing India, and Arden of Faversham.
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Join us in April at Shakespeare's Globe for #StagingIslam! Details below, book your tickets now: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/sta... ✨✨✨ How have Muslim characters and themes been portrayed on the English stage, both historically and today? 28 April – 6.30 PM
Staging Islam: Past, Present and Future | What's On
Playwright Hannah Khalil, actor Azan Ahmed and historian Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami explore how Islam and Muslim identities have been represented in Shakespeare and beyond.
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2026-2027 Ricci Institute Doctoral Fellowship (Boston College): memorients.com/news/2026-20...
2026-2027 Ricci Institute Doctoral Fellowship (Boston College) | MEMOs
April 3rd Deadline. Boston College (Boston, USA)
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