Knights in Arms: Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655

‘This book takes an innovative and fascinating outlook on prose romances of the Eastern Mediterranean.’

Giulia M. Mari, Sixteenth Century Journal vol 68:01:2017

"Knights in Arms makes some very interesting and suggestive arguments, most notably about English efforts to bypass Persian middlemen along the Silk Road and England’s new trade with Turkey….Its topics and texts are both important and under-studied, and Stanikuvic makes a good case for his questions and perspectives."

Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018

“Knights in Arms is a smart and important study of the relationship between prose romance and Eastern Mediterranean trade that will compel critics to reassess their current understandings of early modern masculine identity and sexuality.”

Melissa Sanchez, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

“Knights in Arms extends and challenges leading interpretations of Renaissance romance from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including genre criticism, feminism, queer studies, and postcolonial accounts of orientalist discourses. With its extensive primary source research and its incisive interventions into critical and theoretical debates, this book presents a major and original contribution to literary and cultural studies of the early modern period.”

Bernadette Andrea, Department of English, University of Texas at San Antonio