Early Modern Tales of Orient: A Critical AnthologyKenneth Parker Psychology Press, 1999 - 290 strani Early Modern Tales of Orient is the first volume to collect together these travellers' tales and make them available to today's students and scholars. By introducing a fascinating array of accounts (of exploration, diplomatic, and commercial ventures), Kenneth Parker challenges widely-held assumptions about Early Modern encounters in the Orient. The documents assembled in Early Modern Tales of Orient have extraordinary resonance for us today. Many of the discourses which in part, emerged from those early encounters - such as Islamophobia, English Nationalism, and the Catholic/Protestant divide - are still active in contemporary society. This volume sheds a unique light on the development of a very English interest in 'the exotic'. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The rare and most wonderfull things 1590 336 | 36 |
The voyage of the Susan of London to Constantinople 1598 | 48 |
A description of a voiage to Constantinople and Syria 1598 | 54 |
Sir Antony Sherley His Relation of his Travels into Persia 1613 | 61 |
The travels of certaine Englishmen 1609 | 83 |
The Preachers Travels 1611 | 106 |
An Itinerary 1617 | 128 |
The totall discourse of the rare aduentures 1632 | 149 |
A voyage into the Levant 1636 | 175 |
Some years travels into divers parts 1677 | 195 |
A New Account of EastIndia and Persia 1698 | 221 |
Key dates and events | 233 |
Jesuit hymn | 248 |
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