Visions of Persia: Mapping the Travels of Adam OleariusHarvard University Press, 2003 - 238 страници This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany, through Muscovy, to the court of Shah Safi in Isfahan. Adam Olearius introduced Persian literature, history, and arts to the German-speaking public; his frank appraisal of Persian customs foreshadows the enlightened spirit of the eighteenth century (influencing Montesquieu's Persian Letters as well as Goethe's West-Eastern Divan) and prepares the way for German Romanticism's infatuation with Persian poetry. Brancaforte focuses on the visual and discursive nexus uniting Olearius's text with the numerous engravings that supplement the book. The emphasis falls on contextualized readings of Olearius's decorative frontispieces and his new and improved map of Persia and the Caspian Sea, as expressions of early modern subjectivity. |
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... world . Claudius Ptolemy , as librarian in Alexandria during the second cen- tury A.D. , had compiled a great deal of geographical information about the ancient world , including coordinates for some eight thousand loca- tions . In his ...
... world . The second group concerns the geographer al - Balkhī and his school , which emphasized regional maps that were specifically con- cerned with describing the Islamic world . They also produced round world maps in which the ...
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ADAM OLEARIUS AND THE JOURNEY TO MUSCOVY AND PERSIA | 1 |
ADAM OLEARIUS AND THE EARLYMODERN FRONTISPIECE | 23 |
ADAM OLEARIUS AND THE PERSIANISCHER ROSENTHAL | 67 |
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