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Re-orienting the Renaissance: cultural exchanges with the East

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1403992339 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781403992338 (hbk.)
Title	Re-orienting the Renaissance : cultural exchanges with the East / edited by Gerald MacLean ; foreword by William Dalrymple
Publisher	Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
Physical desc.	xxiii, 187 p. ; ill. (b&w), maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents	Introduction: re-orienting the Renaissance / George MacLean -- The status of the Oriental traveller in Renaissance Venice / Deborah Howard -- St George between East and West / Jerry Brotton -- Mummy is become merchandise: literature and the Anglo-Egyptian mummy trade in the seventeenth century / Philip Schwyzer -- A double perspective and a lost rivalry: Ogier de Busbecq and Melchior Lorck in Istanbul / Barnaby Rogerson -- The French Renaissance in search of the Ottoman Empire / Philip Mansel -- Petrarch and ’that mad dog Averroës’ / Robert Irwin -- Arab views of Europeans, 1578-1727: the western Mediterranean / Nabil Matar -- 'The treacherous cleverness of hindsight': myths of Ottoman decay / Caroline Finkel.
Subject	Renaissance
Subject	East and West
Added name(s)	MacLean, Gerald M. 1952- ed.
Added name(s)	Dalrymple, William

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