Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780367524210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 276 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: travel and conflict  Part 1: Language, translation and assimilation  1. Babel as a source of conflict: a case study of two discovery narratives  2. Language, mediation, conflict and power in early modern China: the roles of the interpreter in Matteo Ricci’s Journals  3. "Strange accidents": navigating conflict in Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia  Part 2: Travel, religion and the violence of the road  4. Arming the Alps through art: saints, knights and bandits on the early modern road  5. Between hermits and heretics: Maronite religious renewal and the Turk in Catholic travel accounts of Lebanon after the Council of Trent  6. The wars in Europe and the　journeying play: Thomas Drue’s The Duchess Of Suffolk (1624)  Part 3: War, diplomacy and dissimulation  7. Ambassadors as travellers in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century  8. Squadrons of inkpots: Pietro Aretino and the narrativity of conflict  9. Avoiding conflict in the early modern Levant: Henry Blount’s adaptations in Ottoman lands  Part 4: The art of travel and imaginary journeys  10. Ars apodemica gendered: female advice on travel  11. Travel, utopia, and conflict: patterns of irony in early modern utopian narratives  12. Lunar travel and lunacy: reading conflict in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon