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Publications by Michael Tworek
The opening address and overview of the concept "(dis)entanglement" and its uses for global histo... more The opening address and overview of the concept "(dis)entanglement" and its uses for global history from "(Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities 1300-1800," a conference held at Harvard University on March 24, 2017.
A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe. Edited by Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock. Br... more A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe. Edited by Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock. Brill, 2015.
Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors (Machtelt Israëls and Louis A. Waldman, eds.), 2013
The Virgil Encyclopedia, 2014
The Virgil Encyclopedia, 2014
Repertorium Pomponianum, 2011
The Renaissance World (John Jeffries Martin, ed.), 2007
Book Reviews by Michael Tworek
Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 44 Issue 3, pp. 807-809, 2013
Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 44 Issue 1, pp. 259-261, 2013
Reformacja w dawnej Rzeczpospolitej i jej europejskie konteksty is an unconventional work of scho... more Reformacja w dawnej Rzeczpospolitej i jej europejskie konteksty is an unconventional work of scholarship. Originating from a seminar on revitalizing the study of the Polish Reformation, the book is a collection of twenty-two research proposals, reflections, and essays that challenge traditional historical narratives and reassess little-studied figures, groups, and texts from Poland-Lithuania. One could think of this volume as a "Ninety-Five Theses" nailed gently to the cathedral doors of the larger scholarly establishment. Wilczek's and his collaborators' critique, unlike Luther's, is much simpler: our understanding of the Reformation is greatly bereft without a better and wider study of its impact on Poland-Lithuania. His and contributors' solution is to show the intellectual, political, social, and cultural integration of this major sixteenth-century power into the movement on domestic and pan-European levels. The overall result is a thought-provoking and productive contribution to scholarship on the Reformation and Poland-Lithuania.
Ottoman History Podcast by Michael Tworek
A man known as Wojciech Bobowski to some, Albertus Bobovius to others, and Ali Ufki to yet others... more A man known as Wojciech Bobowski to some, Albertus Bobovius to others, and Ali Ufki to yet others, is one of the prime examples of an early modern intermediary operating in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire. In this podcast, we discuss with Michael Tworek the fascinating figure of the Bobovius, from his childhood in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, to his capture in a Tatar slave raid, to his numerous translations both from and to Ottoman Turkish. These included musical treatises, the translation of the New Testament, the Genevan Psalter and more. In particular, we focus on how Bobovius mediated and developed his image as an inter-imperial mediator to his correspondents in the Republic of Letters.
Papers by Michael Tworek
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
This article offers a new approach to early modern global history, dubbed (dis)entangled history ... more This article offers a new approach to early modern global history, dubbed (dis)entangled history as a way to combine the conventional focus on the history of connections with a necessary appreciation of the elements of disconnection and disintegration. To exemplify this approach, it offers a case study related to the history of cannibalism as both a disputed anthropophagic practice and a cultural reference point across the early modern world. Through a rich multilingual and multimedia source base, we trace how the idea of Indigenous Tapuya endo-cannibalism in Brazil travelled across the Atlantic through Europe and Africa to East Asia. The idea of Tapuya cannibalism crossed some linguistic borders, stopped at others and interacted unevenly with long-standing Ottoman, Polish, West African, Islamic and Chinese ideas about ‘cannibal countries’, of which it was just one more example. This trajectory challenges the historiographical consensus that early modern ideas about cannibalism were...
Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, 2013
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2010
The opening address and overview of the concept "(dis)entanglement" and its uses for global histo... more The opening address and overview of the concept "(dis)entanglement" and its uses for global history from "(Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities 1300-1800," a conference held at Harvard University on March 24, 2017.
A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe. Edited by Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock. Br... more A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe. Edited by Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock. Brill, 2015.
Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors (Machtelt Israëls and Louis A. Waldman, eds.), 2013
The Virgil Encyclopedia, 2014
The Virgil Encyclopedia, 2014
Repertorium Pomponianum, 2011
The Renaissance World (John Jeffries Martin, ed.), 2007
Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 44 Issue 3, pp. 807-809, 2013
Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 44 Issue 1, pp. 259-261, 2013
Reformacja w dawnej Rzeczpospolitej i jej europejskie konteksty is an unconventional work of scho... more Reformacja w dawnej Rzeczpospolitej i jej europejskie konteksty is an unconventional work of scholarship. Originating from a seminar on revitalizing the study of the Polish Reformation, the book is a collection of twenty-two research proposals, reflections, and essays that challenge traditional historical narratives and reassess little-studied figures, groups, and texts from Poland-Lithuania. One could think of this volume as a "Ninety-Five Theses" nailed gently to the cathedral doors of the larger scholarly establishment. Wilczek's and his collaborators' critique, unlike Luther's, is much simpler: our understanding of the Reformation is greatly bereft without a better and wider study of its impact on Poland-Lithuania. His and contributors' solution is to show the intellectual, political, social, and cultural integration of this major sixteenth-century power into the movement on domestic and pan-European levels. The overall result is a thought-provoking and productive contribution to scholarship on the Reformation and Poland-Lithuania.
A man known as Wojciech Bobowski to some, Albertus Bobovius to others, and Ali Ufki to yet others... more A man known as Wojciech Bobowski to some, Albertus Bobovius to others, and Ali Ufki to yet others, is one of the prime examples of an early modern intermediary operating in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire. In this podcast, we discuss with Michael Tworek the fascinating figure of the Bobovius, from his childhood in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, to his capture in a Tatar slave raid, to his numerous translations both from and to Ottoman Turkish. These included musical treatises, the translation of the New Testament, the Genevan Psalter and more. In particular, we focus on how Bobovius mediated and developed his image as an inter-imperial mediator to his correspondents in the Republic of Letters.
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
This article offers a new approach to early modern global history, dubbed (dis)entangled history ... more This article offers a new approach to early modern global history, dubbed (dis)entangled history as a way to combine the conventional focus on the history of connections with a necessary appreciation of the elements of disconnection and disintegration. To exemplify this approach, it offers a case study related to the history of cannibalism as both a disputed anthropophagic practice and a cultural reference point across the early modern world. Through a rich multilingual and multimedia source base, we trace how the idea of Indigenous Tapuya endo-cannibalism in Brazil travelled across the Atlantic through Europe and Africa to East Asia. The idea of Tapuya cannibalism crossed some linguistic borders, stopped at others and interacted unevenly with long-standing Ottoman, Polish, West African, Islamic and Chinese ideas about ‘cannibal countries’, of which it was just one more example. This trajectory challenges the historiographical consensus that early modern ideas about cannibalism were...
Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, 2013
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2010