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

“‘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)

“Language and Gender in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” Renaissance Quarterly 75 (2022): 1-45

“Habsburgs, Ottomans, and Venetians on the Frontiers of Dalmatia: The Capture of Clissa in 1596,” in The Habsburg Mediterranean, 1500-1800, eds. Stefan Hanß and Dorothea McEwan. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2021: 61-77

Forthcoming Publications

“The Mobile Mediterranean,” in Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean, eds. Rita George-Tvrtković and Jessalynn Bird (Leiden: Brill, 2024)

“Islamic Masculinity,” in Companion to the History of Masculinity in Early Modern Europe, eds. Tim Reinke-Williams (London: Routledge, 2024)

The Mediterranean Renaissance, 1300-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2025)