A study of the robes of honour handed out by Safavid emperors to European guests at the Safavid court. This study seeks to clarify how much of the meaning behind these khil'ats the Europeans really...Show moreA study of the robes of honour handed out by Safavid emperors to European guests at the Safavid court. This study seeks to clarify how much of the meaning behind these khil'ats the Europeans really understood.Show less
Study into the worldview reflected by the genres of emblem books, hieroglyphs and impresa during the Renaissance. After an analysis of current theories, a new view, describing the conversion of the...Show moreStudy into the worldview reflected by the genres of emblem books, hieroglyphs and impresa during the Renaissance. After an analysis of current theories, a new view, describing the conversion of the three genres, is proposed and followed by its illustration consisting of an analysis of different editions of Claude Paradin his 'Devise héroïques'.Show less
This thesis focuses on the acculturation of European mercenaries in the armies of Post-Mughal successor states at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. The thesis takes William...Show moreThis thesis focuses on the acculturation of European mercenaries in the armies of Post-Mughal successor states at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. The thesis takes William Dalrymple's "White Mughals" as a departure point and uses sources left behind by the mercenaries to test his hypothesis that these mercenaries generally acculturated into the societies of the post-Mughal successor states. However, through the analysis of these sources, this thesis argues that there was no acculturation to the degree Dalrymple argued present. Moreover, this thesis argues that there was an active segregation from Indians by most of the mercenaries, with an economic motive.Show less
