Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were
fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and
conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of
communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific
knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global
economy all affected how states articulated and projected visions
of authority into societies that, in turn, perceived and responded
to these visions in often contrasting terms. Landscape both
reflected and served as a vehicle for these transformations, as the
relationship between the land and its imagination and consumption
became a fruitful site for the negotiation of imperial identities
within and beyond the precincts of the court. In Landscape and
Authority in the Early Modern World, contributors explore the role
of landscape in the articulation and expression of imperial
identity and the mediation of relationships between the court and
its many audiences in the early modern world. Nine studies focused
on the geographical areas of East and South Asia, the Islamic
world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies
shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical
sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities, and hunting parks, and
conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities,
and the cosmos. The collected essays expand the meaning and
potential of landscape as a communicative medium in this period by
putting an array of forms and subjects in dialogue with one
another, including not only unique expressions, such as gardens,
paintings, and manuscripts, but also the products of rapidly
developing commercial technologies of reproduction, especially
print. The volume invites a deeper and more nuanced understanding
of the complexity with which early modern states constructed and
deployed different modes of landscape for different audiences and
environments. Contributors: Robert Batchelor, Seyed Mohammad Ali
Emrani, John Finlay, Caroline Fowler, Katrina Grant, Finola
O’Kane, Anton Schweizer, Larry Silver, Stephen H. Whiteman.
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