Travel and conflict in the early modern world
This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel - whether real or imagined - in the early modern world.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,
2020
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
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| Schlagworte: | Travel Voyages and travels International relations Cultural relations Cultural relations-History Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (291 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel - whether real or imagined - in the early modern world. Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- A note to the reader -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Travel and conflict -- Constructive conflict? -- Travel and conflict in the early modern world -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Language, translation, and assimilation -- 1. Babel as a source of conflict: A case study of two discovery narratives -- Transparency: the most elementary form of conflict? -- Impossible transparency: conflict through language -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Language, mediation, conflict and power in early modern China: The roles of the interpreter in Matteo Ricci's Journals -- The study of language as the key to succeed in China -- The politics of interpretation -- The relationships between Jesuits and their interpreters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. "Strange accidents" Navigating conflict in Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia (1605) -- Prudential plotting: the example of Sir Thomas Smythe -- William Scott's theories of disposition -- Accidents and occurrents in Smithes voiage -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Travel, religion, and the violence of the road -- 4. Arming the Alps through art: Saints, knights, and bandits on the early modern roads -- Travel and conflict in the Alps -- Arming the "Bad Way -- Watchmen of the Alps -- Knights and hunting -- Arming the Alps: a final paradox -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Between hermits and heretics Maronite religious renewal and the Turk in Catholic travel accounts of Lebanon after the Council of Trent -- The Turkish mirror: the cultural entanglements of Eastern Rite Catholicism and Islam -- Maronite piety and the defence of Christendom against oriental vice. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (291 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781000260199 1000260194 9780367524210 036752421X |