Early Modern Tales of Orient

A Critical Anthology

Kenneth Parker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780415147569
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135637477
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

Early Modern Tales of Orient is the first volume to collect together these travellers' tales and make them available to today's students and scholars. By introducing a fascinating array of accounts (of exploration, diplomatic, and commercial ventures), Kenneth Parker challenges widely-held assumptions about Early Modern encounters in the Orient. The documents assembled in Early Modern Tales of Orient have extraordinary resonance for us today. Many of the discourses which in part, emerged from those early encounters - such as Islamophobia, English Nationalism, and the Catholic/Protestant divide - are still active in contemporary society. This volume sheds a unique light on the development of a very English interest in 'the exotic'.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Edward Webbe: The rare and most wonderfull things… (1590)
• 2 William Harborne: ‘The voyage of the Susan of London to Constantinople…’ (1598)
• 3 Richard Wragge: ‘A description of a voiage to Constantinople and Syria…’ (1598)
• 4 Anthony Sherley: Sir Antony Sherley His Relation of his Travels into Persia… (1613)
• 5 William Biddulph: The travels of certaine Englishmen… (1609)
• 6 John Cartwright: The Preacher’s Travels… (1611)
• 7 Fynes Moryson: An Itinerary… (1617)
• 8 William Lithgow: The totall discourse, of the rare aduentures… (1632)
• 9 Sir Henry Blount: A voyage into the Levant… (1636)
• 10 Thomas Herbert: Some years travels into divers parts… (1677)
• 11 John Fryer: A New Account of East-India and Persia… (1698)
• Appendix 1: Key dates and events
• Appendix 2: Jesuit hymn
• Appendix 3: Brief biographies of key figures whose names recur in the texts
• Bibliography
• Index