Added on February 2, 2023 Historical essay Have Leprosy, Will Travel: A Case of Early Modern Medical Tourism On the tropical beach of a remote island, a group of ailing Europeans was spread across the white sands. Some […]
Added on April 6, 2021 Historical essay Sister Mariana’s Spyglass: The Unreliable Ghost of Female Desire in a Convent Archive In 1731, Sister Mariana de Jesus, a young nun at the Augustinian Convent of Santa Monica in Portuguese Goa, was […]
Added on December 16, 2020 Historical essay The Rejected Ones: Indian Foundlings in Colonial Portuguese Goa In September of 1747, Rosa de Menezes went into labor in her home in the poorest quarter of Goa, the […]