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Beyond Greece and Rome - Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Beyond Greece and Rome - Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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Though the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is
a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to assume the
dominance of Greece and Rome in engagements with the classical
world during that period. The essays in this volume aim to
challenge this prevailing view by arguing for the significance and
familiarity of the ancient near east to early modern Europe,
establishing the diversity and expansiveness of the classical world
known to authors like Shakespeare and Montaigne in what we now call
the 'global Renaissance'. However, global Renaissance studies has
tended to look away from classical reception, exacerbating the
blind spot around the significance of the ancient near east for
early modern Europe. Yet this wider classical world supported new
modes of humanist thought and unprecedented cross-cultural
encounters, as well as informing new forms of writing, such as
travel writing and antiquarian treatises; in many cases, and
befitting its Herodotean origins, the ancient near east raises
questions of travel, empire, religious diversity, cultural
relativism, and the history of European culture itself in ways that
prompted detailed, engaging, and functional responses by early
modern readers and writers. Bringing together a range of approaches
from across the fields of classical studies, history, and
comparative literature, this volume seeks both to emphasize the
transnational, interdisciplinary, and interrogative nature of
classical reception, and to make a compelling case for the
continued relevance of the texts, concepts, and materials of the
ancient near east, specifically, to early modern culture and
scholarship.
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