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Oriental Cultures and Scholarship in the Baltic Region.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linde, Cornelia.
- Series:
- The History of Oriental Studies
- The History of Oriental Studies ; v.19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baltic philology.
- Baltic languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (383 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : BRILL, 2026.
- Summary:
- This volume explores scholarly and cultural engagement with the Orient in the Baltic Sea region (1500-1800), highlighting knowledge exchange, practices, and sources across institutions and regions through interdisciplinary perspectives and transregional networks.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Oriental Studies and Cultural Exchange in the Mare Balticum Region: An Introduction
- Knowledge of Islam in the Scandinavian Middle Ages: Stereotypes or Experience, or Both?
- The 'Orient' in the Stomach of Northern Europeans
- Oriental Culture and Scholarship in the Early Modern Baltic Regions of the Holy Roman Empire: A Diplomatic Perspective
- Oriental Languages at the University of Greifswald, 1539 to 1655
- A Key to Kabbalah and a Christian Talmud: Johan Kemper's Lutheran Reconstruction of the Primeval Religion of the Hebrews
- Framing Moses: Biblical Philology and Lutheran Orthodoxy in the Early Modern Baltic Region
- Semitic Sweden: Oriental Archetypes in Johannes Bureus's Study of the History of Runic Writing
- Swedish Scholars Comparing Languages by 1800: Motives and Methods
- From Niels Kiöping to Carl Fredrik Bergstedt: The Prehistory of Swedish Indology
- The Perception of and Interest in the Orient in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Orient Imagined, Asia Described: Representations of the East in Printed Texts in Early Modern Lithuania
- Encounters with Near Eastern Artefacts in the Baltic Region
- A Learned Man in Odense: Thomas Broder Bircherod and the Qurʾan
- Danish Oriental Studies: Between the Sacred and the Secular, the Local and the Global (1600-1850)
- Index of Persons
- Index of Places
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-75047-9
- OCLC:
- 1587074033
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