A seventeenth-century odyssey in East Central Europe
| Titel: | A seventeenth-century odyssey in East Central Europe : the life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy / Gábor Kármán |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | Leiden : Brill, 2015 |
| Umfang: | VIII, 315 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
The history of oriental studies ; 2 |
| ISBN: | 9789004294271 |
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- List of Maps and Figures
- p. ix
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1
- The Beginnings of an Ecclesiastical Career
- p. 8
- Transylvania and Its Surroundings in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
- p. 10
- Before Peregrination
- p. 13
- Peregrination
- p. 22
- Franeker and Leiden
- p. 23
- Cambridge and Edinburgh
- p. 32
- Experiences during Peregrination
- p. 40
- The Puritan Rector?
- p. 45
- 2
- In the Service of the Prince
- p. 54
- The Office of the Turkish Scribe at the Sublime Porte
- p. 58
- The Micro-Society of the Transylvanian Embassy in Constantinople
- p. 73
- Living Conditions in Constantinople
- p. 88
- 3
- Years of Turmoil
- p. 97
- The Last Years in Transylvania
- p. 102
- Hungary, Moravia, Muscovy
- p. 110
- Stettin
- p. 122
- Court Society under the Exiled Voievod
- p. 132
- 4
- The Court Councillor of the Great Elector
- p. 145
- In the Service of the Elector
- p. 150
- The Colloquia Familiaria: Genre and Sources
- p. 158
- The Afterlife of the Colloquia Familiaria
- p. 166
- A Hungarian Emigrant in Berlin
- p. 174
- 5
- The Bureaucrat and the Intellectual
- p. 187
- The Bureaucrat
- p. 191
- The Intellectual
- p. 198
- Harsányi, the Puritan?
- p. 211
- Harsányi's Changing Image of the Turks
- p. 219
- "A Turk" or "Various Turks"?
- p. 219
- Elements of the Image
- p. 225
- Greed: "The Emperor of this World is Money"
- p. 225
- Treachery: "Turkish Friendship"
- p. 228
- Discipline: "Where a Turkish Soldier Put His Feet, the Grass Grows no More"
- p. 230
- Infidels: "But Our People Know the Right Path and the Orders of God"
- p. 233
- A Positive Image of the Turks and its Conclusions
- p. 237
- What Made Harsányi's Image of the Turks Change?
- p. 237
- Different Conclusions: The Legate and the Interpreter
- p. 241
- Harsányi's Conclusions: A Plea for an And-Ottoman War
- p. 244
- Instead of a Conclusion
- p. 252
- Appendix 1
- Known Copies of the Colloquia
- p. 255
- Appendix 2
- A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of Europe
- p. 259
- Bibliography
- p. 262
- Index
- p. 311
