Author Archives for Moritz T.

November 12, 2023 5:06 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

„(…) we know that nothing particularly significant emerged from Roe’s embassy. Yet if there is one thing that following Roe in India illuminates, it is...


November 12, 2023 5:04 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

„The business of the English Ambassador had become a  minor pawn in the high stakes game of Shatranj, Indo-Persian chess, that was splitting Jahangir’s household...


November 12, 2023 4:38 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

„He was very close to recommending that the English give up trade and resort to much more profitable piracy.“


November 12, 2023 4:37 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

„How you saw the effect of travel, it seemed, depended on whether you saw yourself as the translator or the translated. In Ajmer, Roe was...


November 12, 2023 4:36 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Baburnama, Buch des ersten Mughal-Herrschers in Indien, beschreibt sein neues Imperium


November 12, 2023 4:35 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

“The letter that Roe sent him on 17 January 1616 (…) would only reach Carew on 18 September 1616.”