Eric Dursteler
Title
Professor
Institution
Brigham Young University
Current Research
Language, gender, food and cross-cultural intimacy in the early modern Mediterranean. Venice and the stato da mar.
Recent Publications
“Mobility and Migration in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” in Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean, eds. Rita George-Tvrtković and Jessalynn Bird. Leiden: Brill, 2025: 109-136
“‘Worse Than a Public Brothel’: Sex and Diplomacy in Early Modern Istanbul,” in Making Stories in Early Modern Italy and Beyond, eds. John Hunt and John Christopoulos. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2024: 173-195
“Body or Soul: Proving Your Religion in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” in Conversion Machines: Apparatus, Artifice, Body, eds. Bronwen Wilson and Paul Yachnin. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2023: 274-304
“The Inquisitor at the Table: Food and Identity in Mediterranean Tribunals of the Roman Inquisition,” Religions 14.5 (2023): 619 (1-16)
“‘Worse Than a Public Brothel’: Sex and Diplomacy in Early Modern Istanbul,” in Making Stories in Early Modern Italy and Beyond, eds. John Hunt and John Christopoulos. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2024: 173-195
“Body or Soul: Proving Your Religion in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” in Conversion Machines: Apparatus, Artifice, Body, eds. Bronwen Wilson and Paul Yachnin. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2023: 274-304
“The Inquisitor at the Table: Food and Identity in Mediterranean Tribunals of the Roman Inquisition,” Religions 14.5 (2023): 619 (1-16)
Forthcoming Publications
“Corn, Coffee, Cacao: Foodways in Flux in the Early Modern Stato da Mar,” in Stato da Mar: The Venetian Mediterranean as a Cultural and Artistic Space, eds. Donal Cooper and Georgios Markou (Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, forthcoming, 2027)
“Islamic Masculinity,” in Companion to the History of Masculinity in Early Modern Europe, eds. Tim Reinke-Williams (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2027)
The Mediterranean Renaissance, 1300-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
“Islamic Masculinity,” in Companion to the History of Masculinity in Early Modern Europe, eds. Tim Reinke-Williams (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2027)
The Mediterranean Renaissance, 1300-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2025)