Early modern exchanges: dialogues between nations and cultures, 1550-1800

Marcus Gheeraerts?s portrait of a ?Persian lady? - probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume - exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture.

Her surrounding landscape and the embroidery on her gown are typically English; but her head-dress and slippers are decidedly exotic, the inscriptions beside her are Latin, and her creator was an ?incomer? artist. She is emblematic of the early modern culture of exchange, both between England and its European neighbours, and between Europe and the wider world.

This volume presents fresh research into such early modern exchanges, exploring how new identities, subjectivities and artefacts were forged in dialogues and encounters between diverse cultures, nations and language communities.