This exploration of France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century uses diplomatic sources, fiction and images to describe how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. It revises our notions of orientalism and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
This exploration of France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century uses diplomatic sources, fiction and images to describe how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. It revises our notions of orientalism and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Susan Mokhberi is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers-Camden University. She received her PhD from UCLA in 2010 in early modern European history and is the author of "Finding Common Ground Between Europe and Asia: Understanding Conflict during the Persian Embassy to France in 1715" in the Journal of Early Modern History 2012. Her classes cover the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Louis XIV's France, and connections between Europe and the World.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction to the Mirror * Chapter 1: Missionaries, Travelers, and the Case of Jean Chardin * Chapter 2: Persia: A Courtly East in the French Imaginaire * Chapter 3: Against all Odds: The Diplomatic Mission of Pierre-Victor Michel to Persia, 1706-1708 * Chapter 4: The Persian Embassy to France in 1715: Conflict and Understanding * Chapter 5: Images of Mohammad Reza Beg: Fashioning the Ambassador * Chapter 6: Images of the Persian Visit: Connections between the Safavid and Bourbon Crowns * Chapter 7: The Absolutist Mirror * Conclusion * Bibliography
* Introduction to the Mirror * Chapter 1: Missionaries, Travelers, and the Case of Jean Chardin * Chapter 2: Persia: A Courtly East in the French Imaginaire * Chapter 3: Against all Odds: The Diplomatic Mission of Pierre-Victor Michel to Persia, 1706-1708 * Chapter 4: The Persian Embassy to France in 1715: Conflict and Understanding * Chapter 5: Images of Mohammad Reza Beg: Fashioning the Ambassador * Chapter 6: Images of the Persian Visit: Connections between the Safavid and Bourbon Crowns * Chapter 7: The Absolutist Mirror * Conclusion * Bibliography
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