Rediscovering objects from Islamic lands in Enlightenment Europe. / edited by Isabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rediscovering Objects From Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I Changing Perceptions -- 1 Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Historical Context -- Renaissance and Post-Renaissance -- The Enlightenment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Reading Ottoman Banners in the State of the Church -- Beyond Texts: A Roman Orientalist Struggling With Objects -- The Ottoman Banner in the Holy House of Loreto -- Beyond Loreto: The Reading of the Inscription On the Urbino Banner -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Protagonists -- 3 Oluf Gerhard Tychsen: Orientalist and Object Interpreter in Rostock -- Networks for Discussing Objects -- First-Hand Study -- Accurate Images -- Palaeographic Expertise -- Scientific Analysis and Historical Bias -- Conceptions of Self and Other -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Beyond Manuscripts: Maronite Christians as Object Interpreters in Early Modern Europe -- The Prince of Mount Lebanon: Habaisci Spaada -- Simon Assemani -- Translating Arabic for All Fields of Knowledge - Miguel Casiri, Polymath -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Whose Heritage? -- 5 The "Baptistère De Saint Louis": The Making of a "Historical Monument" -- The Earliest Descriptions of the Baptistère -- Aubin-Louis Millin and the Making of the Baptistère De Saint Louis -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 "Nuestros Árabes"?: The Rediscovery of Spanish Islamic Architecture From an Enlightened Gaze -- A Renewed Cultural Awareness -- The Foreign Gaze -- Rejection and Acceptance of the Legacy of Al-Andalus -- New Lights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.