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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... attempt by four Persian kings over two generations to expand their empire , and the defense of the various Greek citystates against them . Books V - IX chronicle the history of the Persian invasion of Greece in 490 and 480 B.C. and the ...
... attempted to enlist Olearius into his service . Even a cursory comparison of Sebastian Münster's 1544 woodcut map of Muscovy ( Figure 1.3 ) with Olearius's engraved map of the course of the Volga ( Figure 1.4 ) shows the rapid ...
... attempted to do the same for Muscovy and Persia in the mid - seventeenth century . We see some of the attempts to correct the Ptolemaic canon in a detail from the Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium terrarum of the Swede Olaus ...
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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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