What did it mean to be a 'go-between' in the early modern world? How
were such figures perceived in sixteenth and seventeenth century
England? And what effect did their movement between languages,
countries, religions and social spaces - whether enforced or voluntary -
have on the ways in which people navigated questions of identity and
belonging? Lives in Transit in Early Modern England is a work of
interdisciplinary scholarship which examines how questions of mobility
and transculturality were negotiated in practice in the early modern
world. Edited by Nandini Das, the twenty-four essays by João Vicente
Melo, Tom Roberts, Haig Smith, Emily Stevenson, and Lauren Working cover
a wide range of figures from different walks of life and corners of the
globe, ranging from ambassadors to Amazons, monarchs to missionaries,
translators to theologians. Together, the essays in this volume provide
an invaluable resource for readers interested in questions of race,
belonging, and human identity.