A seventeenth-century Odyssey in East Central Europe : : the life of Jakab Harsanyi Nagy / / by Gábor Kármán.
In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gábor Kármán reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Harsányi Nagy. The discussion of his activities as a school teacher in Transylvania, as a diplomat and interpreter at the Sublime Porte, as a secretary of a Moldavian voivode in e...
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| Superior document: | History of Oriental Studies, Volume 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of Oriental studies ;
Volume 2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 The Beginnings of an Ecclesiastical Career
- 2 In the Service of the Prince
- 3 Years of Turmoil
- 4 The Court Councillor of the Great Elector
- 5 The Bureaucrat and the Intellectual
- 6 Harsányi’s Changing Image of the Turks
- Instead of a Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Known Copies of the Colloquia
- Appendix 2 A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of Europe
- Bibliography
- Index.