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Book A Diplomat of the Sixteenth Century  Ogier Ghiselin Busbecq  1522 1592

Download or read book A Diplomat of the Sixteenth Century Ogier Ghiselin Busbecq 1522 1592 written by Augerius GISLENIUS (Seigneur de Bousbecq.) and published by . This book was released on 1595 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq  Volumes 1 and 2

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq Volumes 1 and 2 written by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq is a tell-all of de Busbecq's experiences as an ambassador. Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, was a 16th-century Flemish writer, herbalist, and diplomat in the employ of three generations of Austrian monarchs. He served as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople and in 1581 published a book about his time there, Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum, re-published in 1595 under the title of Turcicae epistolae or Turkish Letters.

Book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq written by Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell, and Charles Thornton Forster: An Account of a Diplomat's Life and Travels: "The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq" offers a biographical account of the life and travels of Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, a 16th-century Flemish diplomat and scholar. The book includes his personal correspondence, providing insights into his experiences, observations, and encounters during his diplomatic missions. Key Aspects of the Book "The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq": Diplomatic Endeavors: The book explores Busbecq's diplomatic missions and his encounters with influential figures of his time, offering a firsthand account of the political landscape of the 16th century. Cultural Observations: Busbecq's letters provide insights into the cultures, traditions, and societies he encountered during his travels, offering valuable historical and anthropological perspectives. Personal Reflections: "The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq" includes Busbecq's personal correspondence, allowing readers to glimpse his personal thoughts, reflections, and experiences throughout his life. Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq was a Flemish diplomat, scholar, and antiquarian who lived from 1522 to 1592. His diplomatic missions took him to various parts of Europe and brought him into contact with influential figures of the time. "The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq" was compiled and edited by Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell and Charles Thornton Forster, providing a comprehensive account of Busbecq's life and travels.

Book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq written by Charles Thornton Forster and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522 in Comines - 28 October 1592; Latin: Augerius Gislenius Busbequius; sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq) was a 16th-century Flemish writer, herbalist and diplomat in the employ of three generations of Austrian monarchs.

Book Letters of Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II

Download or read book Letters of Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II written by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1962 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe written by Marcus Keller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniting twelve original studies by scholars of early modern history, literature, and the arts, this collection is the first that foregrounds the dialectical quality of early modern Orientalism by taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Dialectics of Orientalism demonstrates how texts and images of the sixteenth and seventeenth century from across Europe and the New World are better understood as part of a dynamic and transformative orientalist discourse rather than a manifestation of the supposed dichotomy between the 'East' and the 'West.' The volume's central claim is that early modern orientalist discourses are fundamentally open, self-critical, and creative. Analyzing a varied corpus-from German and Dutch travelogues to Spanish humanist treaties, French essays, Flemish paintings, and English diaries-this collection thus breathes fresh air into the critique of Orientalism and provides productive new perspectives for the study of east-west and indeed globalized exchanges in the early modern world.

Book Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

Download or read book Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period written by Karen Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would later become, and multilingualism was rife. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, languages were coming into contact with an intensity that they had never had before, influencing each other and throwing up all manner of hybrids and pidgins as peoples tried to communicate using the semiotic resources they had available. Of interest to linguists, literary scholars and historians, amongst others, this interdisciplinary volume explores the linguistic dynamics operating in Europe and beyond in the crucial centuries between 1400 and 1800. Assuming a state of individual, societal and functional multilingualism, when codeswitching was the norm, and languages themselves were fluid, unbounded and porous, it explores the shifting relationships that existed between various tongues in different geographical contexts, as well as some of the myths and theories that arose to make sense of them.

Book Naturalists in the Field

Download or read book Naturalists in the Field written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interposed between the natural world in all its diversity and the edited form in which we encounter it in literature, imagery and the museum, lie the multiple practices of the naturalists in selecting, recording and preserving the specimens from which our world view is to be reconstituted. The factors that weigh at every stage are here dissected, analysed and set within a historical narrative that spans more than five centuries. During that era, every aspect evolved and changed, as engagement with nature moved from a speculative pursuit heavily influenced by classical scholarship to a systematic science, drawing on advanced theory and technology. Far from being neutrally objective, the process of representing nature is shown as fraught with constraint and compromise. With a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough Contributors are: Marie Addyman, Peter Barnard, Paul D. Brinkman, Ian Convery, Peter Davis, Felix Driver, Florike Egmond, Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Geoff Hancock, Stephen Harris, Hanna Hodacs, Stuart Houston, Dominik Huenniger, Rob Huxley, Charlie Jarvis, Malgosia Nowak-Kemp, Shepard Krech III, Mark Lawley, Arthur Lucas, Marco Masseti, Geoff Moore, Pat Morris, Charles Nelson, Robert Peck, Helen Scales, Han F. Vermeulen, and Glyn Williams.

Book The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region

Download or read book The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region written by Evgeny Khvalkov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and the functioning of the polyethnic entangled society of Caffa in its interaction with the outer world. It offers a novel interpretation of the functioning of this late medieval colonial polyethnic society and rejects the widely accepted narrative portraying the whole history of Caffa of the fifteenth century as a period of constant decline and depopulation.

Book The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times

Download or read book The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times written by Birgit Krawietz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern scholarship has not given Edirne the attention it deserves regarding its significance as one of the capitals of the Ottoman Empire. This edited volume offers a reinterpretation of Edirne’s history from Early Ottoman times to recent periods of the Turkish Republic. Presently, disconnections and discontinuities introduced by the transition from empire to nation state still characterize the image of the city and the historiography about it. In contrast, this volume examines how the city engages in the forming, deflecting and creative appropriation of its heritage, a process that has turned Edirne into a UNESCO heritage hotspot. A closer historical analysis demonstrates the dissonances and contradictions that these different interpretations and uses of heritage produce. From the beginning, Edirne was shaped by its connectivity and relationality to other places, above all to Istanbul. This perspective is employed at many different levels, e.g., with regard to its population, institutions, architecture, infrastructures and popular culture, but also regarding the imaginations Edirne triggered. In sum, this multi-disciplinary volume boosts urban history beyond Istanbul and offers new insight into Ottoman and Turkish connectivities from the vantage point of certain key moments of Edirne’s history.

Book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq written by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eunuchs and Castrati

Download or read book Eunuchs and Castrati written by Katherine Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eunuchs and Castrati examines the enduring fascination among historians, literary critics, musicologists, and other scholars around the figure of the castrate. Specifically, the book asks what influence such fascination had on the development and delineation of modern ideas around sexuality and physical impairment. Ranging from Greco-Roman times to the twenty-first century, Katherine Crawford brings together travel accounts, diplomatic records, and fictional sources, as well as existing scholarship, to demonstrate how early modern interlocutors reacted to and depicted castrates. She reveals how medicine and law operated to maintain the privileges of bodily integrity and created and extended prejudice against those without it. In consequence, castrates were constructed as gender deviant, disabled social subjects and demarcated as inferior. Early modern cultural loci then reinforced these perceptions, encouraging an othering of castrates in public contexts. These extensive, almost obsessive accounts of appearance, social propensities, and gender characteristics of castrated men reveal the historical lineages of sexual stigma and hostility towards gender non-normative and physically impaired persons. For Crawford, they are the roots of sexual and physical prejudices that remain embedded in the western experience today.

Book Social Science

Download or read book Social Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Oak Spring Herbaria

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  • Author : Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-04-30
  • ISBN : 0965450813
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book An Oak Spring Herbaria written by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent compendium is the fourth in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection assembled by Mrs. Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon. Herbaria describes sixty-three books and manuscripts about herbs and includes exquisite illustrations selected from the works themselves. Spanning the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, and featuring works by Brunfels, Culpeper, Monardes, and Linnaeus, among others, this authoritative catalogue will prove fascinating to botanists, bibliophiles, garden historians, and herbalists alike.

Book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq  Segneur of Bousbecque  Knight  Imperial Ambassador

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq Segneur of Bousbecque Knight Imperial Ambassador written by Ogier Ghiselin van Boesbeeck (Diplomat, Niederlande) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: