Alastair Hamilton

Maurits Van den Boogert

Johann Michael Wansleben’s Travels in Turkey, 1673–1676 is a hitherto unpublished version of a remarkable description of Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa by the German scholar traveller Wansleben.

An Annotated Edition of His French Report

Johann Michael Wansleben’s Travels in Turkey, 1673-1676

Charles Burnett

Jan Loop

The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe.

The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe

Alexander Hamilton

This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton July - October 1792

Bart Westerweel

Maurits H. Van Den Boogert

This collection of articles analyses the interests and experiences in the Levant of a number of leading western scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with an emphasis on the networks of learned friends throughout Europe with whom they corresponded.

The Republic of Letters And the Levant

A Study of Intellectuals and Fascism, 1919-1945

The Appeal of Fascism

Published as Kerkhistorische Bijdragen, Documenta Anabaptistica, vol. 6

Ordo Sacerdotis. Acta HN

Cronica

The various groups known as alumbrados which arose in Spain during the sixteenth century, though different from another, were regarded at the time as parts of a single heresy, which originated in the Iberian peninsula each time it was detected. In fact the members of the movements held beliefs which could also be found in other parts of Europe.

The Alumbrados

Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-century Spain

The central theme of Alastair Hamilton’s nineteen articles is the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period.

Selected Articles

Arabs and Arabists

Alexander Hendrik de Groot

This is the first book, based on both European and Ottoman sources, to examine the commercial, military, and diplomatic relations between the Dutch and the English in the Levant in the early modern period with a special emphasis on the role played by the Ottoman officials and the local Christian dragomans or interpreters.

Studies in Anglo-Dutch Relations in the Levant from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century

Friends and Rivals in the East

Appeal of Fascism

Johann Michael Wansleben’s Travels in the Levant,1671-1674, is an account of the travels in Syria, Turkey and Egypt by one of the best known scholar-travellers of his day who collected manuscripts and antiquities and made some major archaeological discoveries.

An Annotated Edition of His Italian Report

Johann Michael Wansleben's Travels in the Levant, 1671-74

The history of the 16th and 17th century Dutch heresy hated by both Protestants and Catholics, but influenced by both. The mystery which surrounded the heterodox sect known as the Family of Love has been a source of endless fascination to scholars. On the one hand some of the greatest humanists of the late 16th century were associated with it : the printer Christophe Plantin, the cartographer Abraham Ortelius, the philosopher and philologist Justus Lipsius and the Spanish biblical scholar Benito Arias Montano. On the other it acquired a sinister reputation for antinomianism, particularly in England where it survived into the 17th century and, as a spiritual movement, took its place amongst the non-conformist movements under the Commonwealth. Professor Hamilton's is the first comprehensive study to connect the Family of Love in England with the sect on the continent. Working from extensive primary sources in Holland, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States, he provides a detailed study of the careers and thought of the two main ideologists of the sect, the founder Hendrik Niclaes and his schismatic follower Hendrik Jansen van Barrefet (Hiel). He gives a lucid account of the various humanists connected with the movement, and analyses in depth the ramifications of the Family of Love not only in the Low Countries but also in France, Germany and England. The Family of Love is at once, a readable, and a definitive history of a neglected but significant sect in Europe.

Alastair Hamilton

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