How did haircutting and haircare shape narratives of slavery, oppression, and belonging in the early modern Mediterranean? Stefan Hanß explores the intimate politics of hair.
Tag: Ottoman Empire
Missing Voices in the Age of the Beloveds: Ottoman Same Sex Intimacy
Just remembering queer Muslim pasts is not enough – we should acknowledge their inherent power imbalances
‘Suspended between worlds’: Brexit and citizens of nowhere in the 17th and 21st centuries
Eva Johanna Holmberg – a historian who studies travellers crossing borders in the seventeenth century – on being threatened with deportation as a European academic in the UK in 2017
Review of This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Julia McClure reviews Jerry Brotton’s new book This Orient Isle, Elizabethan England and the Islamic World showing how connections between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world were inscribed in English cultures and fashions.
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