Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World
Gelléri, Gábor.
Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World - Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. ©2021. - 1 online resource (291 pages) - Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge Ser. . - Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge Ser. .
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Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- A note to the reader -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Travel and conflict -- Constructive conflict? -- Travel and conflict in the early modern world -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Language, translation, and assimilation -- 1. Babel as a source of conflict: A case study of two discovery narratives -- Transparency: the most elementary form of conflict? -- Impossible transparency: conflict through language -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Language, mediation, conflict and power in early modern China: The roles of the interpreter in Matteo Ricci's Journals -- The study of language as the key to succeed in China -- The politics of interpretation -- The relationships between Jesuits and their interpreters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. "Strange accidents" Navigating conflict in Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia (1605) -- Prudential plotting: the example of Sir Thomas Smythe -- William Scott's theories of disposition -- Accidents and occurrents in Smithes voiage -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Travel, religion, and the violence of the road -- 4. Arming the Alps through art: Saints, knights, and bandits on the early modern roads -- Travel and conflict in the Alps -- Arming the "Bad Way -- Watchmen of the Alps -- Knights and hunting -- Arming the Alps: a final paradox -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Between hermits and heretics Maronite religious renewal and the Turk in Catholic travel accounts of Lebanon after the Council of Trent -- The Turkish mirror: the cultural entanglements of Eastern Rite Catholicism and Islam -- Maronite piety and the defence of Christendom against oriental vice. Global missionary Catholicism as pious unity against the Turk -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Avoiding conflict in the early modern Levant: Henry Blount's adaptations in Ottoman lands -- The shape of the Voyage and its author -- Knowing how to travel -- Turkish" dispositions and "moralls -- Treating with men with several humours -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III: War, diplomacy, and dissimulation -- 7. Ambassadors as travellers in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century -- Varieties of diplomatic travel and sources -- Arrivals and departures -- Dispatches and couriers -- A "tyranny of distance"? -- Travel by resident ambassadors -- Beyond Italy -- Travel, distance, and the "new diplomacy -- Notes -- Bibliogaphy -- 8. Squadrons of inkpots: Pietro Aretino and the narrativity of conflict -- The tragedy of Pavia -- Letters of recommendation -- The politics of pornography -- Character assassination -- From court to camp -- Conclusion: the itinerary of conflict -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9. The wars in Europe and the journeying play: Thomas Drue's The Duchess of Suffolk (1624) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV: The art of travel and imaginary journeys -- 10. Ars apodemica gendered: Female advice on travel -- Gendered exclusions? -- The political and the maternal -- A travelling Sophie? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11. Travel, utopia, and conflict: Patterns of irony in early modern utopian narratives -- Utopian irony -- Travel and utopia -- Utopian wish-fulfilment -- Concluding questions: Crusoe and Gulliver -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12. Lunar travel and lunacy: Reading conflict in Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon (1687) -- From geocentrism to heliocentrism -- Reading and performing the early modern moon -- Reading, travel, and the performance of deception -- The moon, imagination, and natural philosophy. Wonder -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781000260199
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Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World - Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. ©2021. - 1 online resource (291 pages) - Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge Ser. . - Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge Ser. .
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- A note to the reader -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Travel and conflict -- Constructive conflict? -- Travel and conflict in the early modern world -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Language, translation, and assimilation -- 1. Babel as a source of conflict: A case study of two discovery narratives -- Transparency: the most elementary form of conflict? -- Impossible transparency: conflict through language -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Language, mediation, conflict and power in early modern China: The roles of the interpreter in Matteo Ricci's Journals -- The study of language as the key to succeed in China -- The politics of interpretation -- The relationships between Jesuits and their interpreters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. "Strange accidents" Navigating conflict in Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia (1605) -- Prudential plotting: the example of Sir Thomas Smythe -- William Scott's theories of disposition -- Accidents and occurrents in Smithes voiage -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Travel, religion, and the violence of the road -- 4. Arming the Alps through art: Saints, knights, and bandits on the early modern roads -- Travel and conflict in the Alps -- Arming the "Bad Way -- Watchmen of the Alps -- Knights and hunting -- Arming the Alps: a final paradox -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Between hermits and heretics Maronite religious renewal and the Turk in Catholic travel accounts of Lebanon after the Council of Trent -- The Turkish mirror: the cultural entanglements of Eastern Rite Catholicism and Islam -- Maronite piety and the defence of Christendom against oriental vice. Global missionary Catholicism as pious unity against the Turk -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Avoiding conflict in the early modern Levant: Henry Blount's adaptations in Ottoman lands -- The shape of the Voyage and its author -- Knowing how to travel -- Turkish" dispositions and "moralls -- Treating with men with several humours -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III: War, diplomacy, and dissimulation -- 7. Ambassadors as travellers in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century -- Varieties of diplomatic travel and sources -- Arrivals and departures -- Dispatches and couriers -- A "tyranny of distance"? -- Travel by resident ambassadors -- Beyond Italy -- Travel, distance, and the "new diplomacy -- Notes -- Bibliogaphy -- 8. Squadrons of inkpots: Pietro Aretino and the narrativity of conflict -- The tragedy of Pavia -- Letters of recommendation -- The politics of pornography -- Character assassination -- From court to camp -- Conclusion: the itinerary of conflict -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9. The wars in Europe and the journeying play: Thomas Drue's The Duchess of Suffolk (1624) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV: The art of travel and imaginary journeys -- 10. Ars apodemica gendered: Female advice on travel -- Gendered exclusions? -- The political and the maternal -- A travelling Sophie? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11. Travel, utopia, and conflict: Patterns of irony in early modern utopian narratives -- Utopian irony -- Travel and utopia -- Utopian wish-fulfilment -- Concluding questions: Crusoe and Gulliver -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12. Lunar travel and lunacy: Reading conflict in Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon (1687) -- From geocentrism to heliocentrism -- Reading and performing the early modern moon -- Reading, travel, and the performance of deception -- The moon, imagination, and natural philosophy. Wonder -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781000260199
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