The New World
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 608
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Author: C. Edmund Bosworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 135195881X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An Intrepid Scot' makes an important new contribution to the growing literature on the perceptions of the Islamic world and the 'Orient' in early modern Europe, at the same time as illuminating the attitudes of a Protestant from Northern Europe towards the Catholic South. In this book Edmund Bosworth looks at the life and career of William Lithgow, a tough and opinionated Scots Protestant, who had a seemingly insatiable Wanderlust and who managed to survive various misadventures and near-death experiences in the course of his travels. These took him through a dangerously Catholic Southern Europe to a dangerously Muslim Greece and Istanbul en route for his pilgrimage destination of the Holy Land; on another occasion he went through North Africa and returned circuitously via Central and Eastern Europe; but he was stopped in his tracks whilst endeavouring to reach the court of Prester John in Ethiopia, when he fell into the hands of the Spanish Inquisition and narrowly escaped a horrible death. Lithgow was one of several men of his time who journeyed eastwards, some as far as Persia and India, but unlike many others, he has not been the subject of a special study. Bosworth now places him within the context of the present interest in perceptions of the Islamic world and of the 'Orient' and 'Orientals' in early modern Europe. In addition to the entertainment of the travel narrative, the book shows how one Westerner of the time interpreted the alien East for his readers, and how the Ottoman Empire and its apparently unstoppable might both fascinated and struck fear into the hearts of those outside it.
Author: Robert William Seton-Watson
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Malcolm Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1135170738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1983. The problem of defining a frontier region is a leitmotiv of this collection of articles but each perspective requires its own definition. The definition of regions has long been controversial and the attempt to define a sub-set of them - frontier regions - according to precise geographical or socio-economic criteria can be useful only for limited purposes as, for example, in the study of transfrontier labour markets. This text looks at the borders regions in Western Europe, in terms of transfrontier co-operation, geographical definitions, physical planning, economics and political authority.
Author: Walter Alison Phillips
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Manfred Beller
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-09-04
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9004344063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf all European landscapes and regions, the Rhine is one of the most heavily overlaid with cultural and political meaning. Cradle of Romanticism, tourism, and the picturesque, bone of contention between the German and French spheres of cultural and geopolitical influence, the Rhine has attracted armies, artists, activists and tourists for centuries and has featured prominently the key writings of Europe’s literary and intellectual history from Byron to Lucien Febvre. This volume brings together eminent literary and cultural historians to present materials and analyses from various of the central nexus of European culture. The volume also contains a unique and comprehensive anthology of key texts (historical, poetical and polemical) related to the Rhineland and its contested position. Contributors are: Reinhard Baumann, Manfred Beller, Hans-Werner Breunig, Giovanna Cermelli, Joep Leerssen, Elmar Scheuren, Helmut J. Schneider, and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz.
Author: Council of Europe/Conseil de L'Europe
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 1981-06-01
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9789024724581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. Robertson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-12-01
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 9401511926
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 36
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