The power of the dispersed : : early modern global travelers beyond integration / / edited by Cornel Zwierlein.

• Superior document: Intersections
• TeilnehmendeR: Zwierlein, Cornel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (531 pages)

"Early Modern travelers often did not form part of classic 'diaspora' communities: they frequently never really settled, perhaps remaining abroad for some time in one place, then traveling further: not 'blown by the wind', but by changing and complex conditions that often turned out to make them unwelcome anywhere. The dispersed developed strategies of survival by keeping their distance from old and new temporary 'homes', and by manipulating, shaping, using information and foreign representations of their former country and situation. The volume assembles case studies from the Mediterranean context, the Americas and Japan. They ask for what kind of 'power(s)' and agency dispersed people had, counterintuitively, through the connections they maintained with their former homes, and through those they established abroad. Contributors include: Eduardo Angione, Iordan Avramov, Marloes Cornelissen, David Do Paço, José Luis Egío, Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi, Paula Manstetten, Simon Mills, David Nelson, Adolfo Polo y La Borda, Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Cesare Santus, Stefano Saracino, and Cornel Zwierlein"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Note on the editor -- Notes on the contributors -- Introduction / Cornel Zwierlein -- In parte d'infedeli: a papal informant in Istanbul (1607-1608) / Edoardo Angione -- The album Amicorum of the Athonite monk Theoklitos Polyeidis and the agency of perambulating Greek alms collectors in the Holy Roman Empire (18th Century) / Stefano Saracino -- The great imposture: Eastern Christian rogues and counterfeiters in Rome, c. 17th-19th centuries / Cesare Santus -- Nomads in the early modern republic of letters: the transient correspondents of Henry Oldenburg and the Early Royal Society of London / Iordan Avramov -- Travelling scholastics: the emergence of an empirical normative authority in early modern Spanish America / José Luis Egío -- Johann Heinrich Callenberg's Orient / Simon Mills -- Solomon Negri: the self-fashioning of an Arab Christian in early modern Europe / Paula Manstetten -- From erstwhile captive to cultural erudite: the career of Korean-born Samurai, Wakita Kyūbei / David Nelson -- Stories of Spanish captivity in Istanbul: from trauma to empowerment / Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez -- Between America and the Maghrib: the Marquis of Varinas and the weapons of the exile / Adolfo Polo y La Borda -- In the blind spot of the state: Trieste in the 18th-century trans-imperial Adriatic Society / David Do Paço -- Religious feeling and the construction of a merchant's identity in the Greek trade networks of the late eighteenth century / Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi -- From Bern with love: the spy with a taste for the exquisite in early modern Istanbul / Marloes Cornelissen -- Dispersed things: European merchant households in the Levant / Cornel Zwierlein -- Index.