Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gelléri, Gábor; Willie, Rachel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel - whether real or imagined - in the early modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000260199
• Artikelnr.: 60571840

Autorenporträt

Gábor Gelléri is Lecturer in French at Aberystwyth University Rachel Willie is Reader in Early Modern Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: travel and conflict Part 1: Language, translation and
assimilation 1. Babel as a source of conflict: a case study of two
discovery narratives 2. Language, mediation, conflict and power in early
modern China: the roles of the interpreter in Matteo Ricci's Journals 3.
"Strange accidents": navigating conflict in Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and
entertainment in Rushia Part 2: Travel, religion and the violence of the
road 4. Arming the Alps through art: saints, knights and bandits on the
early modern road 5. Between hermits and heretics: Maronite religious
renewal and the Turk in Catholic travel accounts of Lebanon after the
Council of Trent 6. The wars in Europe and the journeying play: Thomas
Drue's The Duchess Of Suffolk (1624) Part 3: War, diplomacy and
dissimulation 7. Ambassadors as travellers in Italy in the second half of
the fifteenth century 8. Squadrons of inkpots: Pietro Aretino and the
narrativity of conflict 9. Avoiding conflict in the early modern Levant:
Henry Blount's adaptations in Ottoman lands Part 4: The art of travel and
imaginary journeys 10. Ars apodemica gendered: female advice on travel 11.
Travel, utopia, and conflict: patterns of irony in early modern utopian
narratives 12. Lunar travel and lunacy: reading conflict in Aphra Behn's
The Emperor of the Moon