The power of the dispersed : : early modern global travelers beyond integration /

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

"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 tu...

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Superior document:Intersections
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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)
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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.

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