Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe
Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-876711-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
Though the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to assume the dominance of Greece and Rome in engagements with the classical world during that period. The essays in this volume aim to challenge this prevailing view by arguing for the significance and familiarity of the ancient near east to early modern Europe, establishing the diversity and expansiveness of the classical world known to authors like Shakespeare and Montaigne in what we now call the 'global Renaissance'. However, global Renaissance studies has tended to look away from classical reception, exacerbating the blind spot around the significance of the ancient near east for early modern Europe. Yet this wider classical world supported new modes of humanist thought and unprecedented cross-cultural encounters, as well as informing new forms of writing, such as travel writing and antiquarian treatises; in many cases, and befitting its Herodotean origins, the ancient near east raises questions of travel, empire, religious diversity, cultural relativism, and the history of European culture itself in ways that prompted detailed, engaging, and functional responses by early modern readers and writers. Bringing together a range of approaches from across the fields of classical studies, history, and comparative literature, this volume seeks both to emphasize the transnational, interdisciplinary, and interrogative nature of classical reception, and to make a compelling case for the continued relevance of the texts, concepts, and materials of the ancient near east, specifically, to early modern culture and scholarship.
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- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- 0: Jane Grogan: Introduction
- Part I: Routes of Reception
- 1: Noreen Humble: The Well-Thumbed Attic Muse: Cicero and the Reception of Xenophon's Persia in the Early Modern Period
- 2: Dennis Looney: Zoanne Pencaro, an Early Modern Italian Reader of the Ancient Near East in Herodotus
- 3: Galena Hashhozheva: From 'Custom is King' to 'Custom is a Metal': The Early Modern Afterlife of Ancient Scythian Culture
- 4: Su Fang Ng: Reading Ancient Fables from the East: Pierre-Daniel Huet's Two-Origin Aetiology of Romance
- Part II: Materials and Traces
- 5: Ladan Niayesh: Reterritorializing Persepolis in the First English Travellers' Accounts
- 6: Thomas Roebuck: Antiquarianism in the Near East: Thomas Smith (1638 1710) and his Journey to the Seven Churches of Asia
- 7: Megan C. Armstrong: Journeying to an Antique Christian Past: Holy Land Pilgrimage Narratives in the Era of the Reformation
- Part III: Refiguring Sources
- 8: Deirdre Serjeantson: Richard Verstegan and the Symbol of Babylon in the Early Modern Period
- 9: Derval Conroy: Casting Models: Female Exempla of the Ancient Near East in Seventeenth-Century French Drama and Gallery Books (1642 1662)
- 10: Jennifer Sarha: Assyria in Early Modern Historiography
- 11: Jane Grogan: Alexander the Great in Early Modern English Drama
- 12: Edith Hall: Crises of Self and Succession: Cambyses in the English Theatre 1560 1667
- Bibliography
- Index
