Essays

Each of the following articles explores one or more of the texts present in the catalogue, introducing the historical/literary context and discussing the significance of each work. We welcome proposals for new essays to be included in the website. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for consideration, do not hesitate to contact us.

• The 1592 Edition of Herodotus’ Histories edited and printed by Henry II Estienne in Geneva
  Dr Noreen Humble, University of Calgary
• A New and Large Discourse on the Travels of Sir Anthony Sherley
  Dr Ema Vyroubalová, Trinity College Dublin
• Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Contayning a History of the World, in Sea Voyages, & Lande Travels, by Englishmen and others
  Dr James Robert Wood, Trinity College Dublin
• Mohammedis Imposturae: that is, a discovery of the manifold forgeries, falsehood, and horrible impieties of the blasphemous seducer Mohammed
  Dr Derek Dunne, Trinity College Dublin
• Americans in Agra? Robert Coverte and the European Iconography of Mughal India
  Dr Michiel van Groesen, University of Amsterdam
• Hodoeporicon Ruthenicum
  Dr Rima Greenhill, Stanford University
• Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii
  Dr Rima Greenhill, Stanford University
• The rare and most wonderfull things which Edw. Webbe an Englishman borne, hath seene and passed in his troublesome travailes
  Dr Edel Semple, University College Cork