1st Edition
Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe
Edited By Thomas Betteridge
Copyright 2007
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Early modern Europe was obsessed with borders and travel. It found, imagined and manufactured new borders for its travellers to cross. It celebrated and feared borders as places or states where meanings were charged and changed. In early modern Europe crossing a border could take many forms; sailing to the Americas, visiting a hospital or taking a trip through London's sewage system. Borders were... Read more
Contents: Introduction: borders, travel and writing, Tom Betteridge. Part I Borders: Highways, hospitals and boundary hazards, Margaret Healy; Alien desires: travellers and sexuality in early modern London, Duncan Salkeld; Rogue traders: national identity, empire and piracy 1580-1640, Claire Jowitt. Part II Europe: Life and death on the Habsburg-Ottoman frontier: Bálint Balassi's 'In Laudem Confiniorum' and other soldier-songs, Mike Pincombe; Unwanted travellers: the tightening of city borders in early modern Germany, Maria R. Boes; Translation and the migration of texts, Andrew Pettegree. Part III Travellers: 'Idiote': politics and friendship in Thomas Coryate, David J. Baker; Returning from Venice to England: Sir Henry Wotton as diplomat, pedagogue, and Italian cultural connoisseur, Melanie Ord; Sacred cannibals and golden kings: travelling the borders of the New World with Hans Staden and Walter Ralegh, Neil L. Whitehead. Afterword: Did cannibals have a Renaissance?, Andrew Hadfield; Index.
Biography
Dr Thomas Betteridge is from Oxford Brookes University, UK.
’The collection is a worthy addition to Ashgate's catalog, presenting important and thoughtful scholarship on early modern European crosscultural encounters and deploying the border in useful and sometimes innovative ways... It will be especially useful to those who continue to work with early modern travel and travel writing as well as those interested more generally in early modern cultural studies and questions of difference.’ Renaissance Quarterly ’[a] rich and challenging collection...’ Review of English Studies
