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Charlie Beirouti

is a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, based in the Faculty of History. Funded jointly by New College and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, his research centres broadly on the depiction of religious diversity in seventeenth-century British and French travelogues, particularly those written by clerics who lived and worked in the Islamic world. His university profile can be viewed here. Charlie is a copy editor at MEMOs.
A backpacker in the age of Shakespeare: Thomas Coryate at the court of the Mughal emperor
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A backpacker in the age of Shakespeare: Thomas Coryate at the court of the Mughal emperor

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Charlie Beirouti

Thomas Coryate (c. 1577-1617) was one of the most widely traveled Englishmen of his day, motivated by curiosity, wanderlust, and fame. He served as a fascinating example of how early modern English travelers to the Islamic world might use their…