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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... various stages of its development . This study was born in Germany , and I would like to thank Wilfried Barner , Hannah Weischedel , as well as Jill Bepler , Martin Bircher , Christian Hogrefe , and Mara Wade for their advice ; and ...
... 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 final defeat and disillusionment of the Persians . But there is more to this conflict . Herodotus ...
... various activities . As becomes clear after examining the text , each image in the frontispiece actually stands for a different chapter of Sa'di's text . Stated another way , the ( visual ) figures represent an entire ( written ) visual ...
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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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