Orientalist Gazes: Reception and Construction of Images of the Ancient Near East since the 17th Century

Kerstin Droß-Krüpe; Agnès Garcia-Ventura; Kai Ruffing; Lorenzo Verderame

doi:10.5771/9783963272516

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-96327-250-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-96327-251-6
Publisher: Zaphon, Münster
Series: wEdge / Cutting-Edge Research in Cuneiform Studies
Volume: 3
Language: English
Pages: 232
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Preface and Acknowledgements No access
Thomas Coryate und sein Orientbild No access Pages 1 - 18
Populäre Lithographien im Orientalismus des 19. Jahrhunderts – tradierte Geschlechterbilder im neuen Medium No access Pages 19 - 36
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstalls Fundgruben des Orients und die Entzifferung der Keilschrift No access Pages 37 - 54
The reception of the Assyrian wounded lioness in Spain – a success story No access Pages 55 - 70
Arnaldo Momigliano and his picture of the Orient – an essay No access Pages 71 - 76
From the Bible to Nabucco – the question of the sources No access Pages 77 - 86
“Die Mitternacht zog näher schon. Man trinkt noch Hofbräu in Babylon … und später wird man in selbiger Nacht von seinem Knecht ins Bett gebracht!” – some insights into the guest book of the German excavations in Babylon No access Pages 87 - 114
Bemerkungen zur Rolle des (Alten) Orients in den deutschsprachigen (welt-)geschichtlichen Betrachtungen des 19. Jahrhunderts No access Pages 115 - 128
Villains or heroes of cultural history? The Ancient Near East in German textbooks around 1900 No access Pages 129 - 138
Reconstruction drawings of Ancient Near Eastern architecture as inspiration for building in the 1920ies in Germany: The Einstein Tower in Potsdam and the Karstadt department store in Berlin No access Pages 139 - 156
The German novelist Karl May (1842–1912) as a multiplier of knowledge about the Ancient Near East No access Pages 157 - 170
Fashion and the Ancient Orient No access Pages 171 - 188
Carsten Niebuhr and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy: How a keen observer and a gifted young scholar unravelled the secrets of Sasanian Naqš-e Rostam No access Pages 189 - 222