The allure of the ancient : receptions of the ancient Middle East, ca. 1600-1800
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Geoga, Margaret
, [HerausgeberIn]
Steele, John M. , [HerausgeberIn] |
|---|---|
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2022.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 401 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
80. |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Images of Babylon in early modern Europe / Michael Seymour
- Between Babylon and Rome : the panorama of Constantinople (1662) / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
- Collapsing identities of Ptolemaic queens in early modern Rome / Andrea L. Middleton
- Reading the East : from the Enlightenment to the utopic projects of the revolutionary architects / Elisa Boeri
- Freemasons and Platonism : the allure of Egypt between big ideas and small details / Florian Ebeling
- Zoraster's French moment / Maryam Sanjabi
- Ancient and modern : citational practices and the status of ancient Egypt in Jean Terrasson's Séthos / Margaret Geoga
- Representing Egypt in French Enlightenment musical theatre : from Gherardi to the Opéra national / Mark Darlow
- From tragic hero to Creole businesswoman : Voltaire's Semiramis and her parodies in 18th-century France and Saint-Domingue / Julia Prest
- Babylonians in sixteenth-century Mexico : comparative antiquarianism in the work of Sahagún / Felipe Rojas Silva
- Egypt and Babylon in eighteenth-century European histories of astronomy / John Steele
- What was oriental studies in early modern Europe? "Oriental languages" and the making of a discipline / Daniel Stolzenberg
- On religious systems : an early essay by Jean-François Champolion / Diane Greco Josefowicz.
