The allure of the ancient : receptions of the ancient Middle East, ca. 1600-1800 / edited by Margaret Geoga, John Steele.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steele, John M., editor.

Geoga, Margaret, editor.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 80.

Intersections: interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; Volume 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Easterners--Public opinion.

Middle Easterners.

East and West. .

Europe--Civilization--Middle Eastern influences.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

The Allure of the Ancient investigates how the ancient Middle East was imagined and appropriated for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing together scholars of the ancient and early modern worlds, the volume approaches reception history from an interdisciplinary perspective, asking how early modern artists and scholars interpreted ancient Middle Eastern civilizations-such as Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia-and how their interpretations were shaped by early modern contexts and concerns. The volume's chapters cross disciplinary boundaries in their explorations of art, philosophy, science, and literature, as well as geographical boundaries, spanning from Europe to the Caribbean to Latin America. Contributors include Elisa Boeri, Mark Darlow, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Florian Ebeling, Margaret Geoga, Diane Greco Josefowicz, Andrea L. Middleton, Julia Prest, Felipe Rojas Silva, Maryam Sanjabi, Michael Seymour, John Steele, and Daniel Stolzenberg.

Contents:

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 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 teh 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-42624-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004426245 DOI