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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... included Strabo , the geogra- pher , and Pausanias , whose travelogues included Persian sites . Lastly there was Ammianus Marcellinus , a late - Roman , non - Christian pro- fessional soldier and officer who served four Roman emperors ...
... included within the work.60 A French frontispiece of 1727 emphasizes the neo - classical tradi- tion and deemphasizes the pictorial aspect of the representation ( Figure 2.19 ) . The title and publication information occupy the upper ...
... included physical representa- tions of landmasses , and hence no longer subscribed to the system of " climes , " which was an improvement on the previous geographers . Followers from this school included al - Iṣṭakhri ( ca. 951 ) , Ibn ...
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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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