Transottoman Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transottoman Matters write by Arkadiusz Blaszczyk. This book was released on 2021-12-06. Transottoman Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility—as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement, and translation—involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, the contributors hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.
Knowledge on the Move in a Transottoman Perspective
Knowledge on the Move in a Transottoman Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowledge on the Move in a Transottoman Perspective write by Evelin Dierauff. This book was released on 2021-09-06. Knowledge on the Move in a Transottoman Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume investigates flows of knowledge that transcended social, cultural, linguistic and political boundaries. Dealing with different sources such as dictionaries, early printed books, political advice literature, and modern periodicals, the case studies in this anthology cover a time frame from the 15th to the early 20th century. Being concerned with a wide variety of geographical areas, including the Ottoman capital Istanbul, provincial settings like Ottoman Palestine, and also Egypt, Bosnia, Crimea, the Persian realm and Poland-Lithuania, this volume gives transepochal and transregional insights in the production, transmission, and translation of knowledge. In so doing it contributes to current debates in transcultural studies, global history, and the history of knowledge.
Transottoman Biographies, 16th–20th c.
Transottoman Biographies, 16th–20th c. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transottoman Biographies, 16th–20th c. write by Denise Klein. This book was released on 2023-09-04. Transottoman Biographies, 16th–20th c. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries, people moved between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Iran. This book studies the biographies of individuals and groups as different as rulers and revolutionaries, frontier bandits and merchants, soldiers and slaves from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Following their journeys across borders, the case studies of this volume emphasize the profound effect that mobility had on the lives and thoughtworlds of everyone with a Transottoman trajectory. The chapters reveal breaks, adjustments, and continuities in people’s biographies and the in-betweenness that moving typically created.
Transcultural things and the spectre of Orientalism in early modern Poland-Lithuania
Transcultural things and the spectre of Orientalism in early modern Poland-Lithuania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transcultural things and the spectre of Orientalism in early modern Poland-Lithuania write by Tomasz Grusiecki. This book was released on 2023-12-12. Transcultural things and the spectre of Orientalism in early modern Poland-Lithuania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland–Lithuania’s roots in the supposedly ‘Oriental’ land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance. These examples of invented tradition borrowed from abroad played a significant role in narrating and visualising the cultural landscape of Polish-Lithuanian elites. But while modern scholarship defines these objects as exemplars of national heritage, early modern beholders treated them with more flexibility, seeing no contradiction in framing material things as local cultural forms while simultaneously acknowledging their foreign derivation. The book reveals how artefacts began to signify as vernacular idioms in the first place, often through obscuring their non-local origin and tainting subsequent discussions of the imagined purity of national culture as a result.
Courtly Mediators
Courtly Mediators - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Courtly Mediators write by Leah R. Clark. This book was released on 2023-05-31. Courtly Mediators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated. By articulating how and why transcultural objects were exchanged, displayed, copied, and framed, she provides a new methodological framework that transforms our understanding of the Italian Renaissance court. Clark's volume provides a multi-sensorial, innovative reading of Italian Renaissance art. It demonstrates that the early modern culture of collecting was more than a humanistic enterprise associated with the European roots of the Renaissance. Rather, it was sustained by interactions with global material cultures from the Islamic world and beyond.
