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Von den Bedingungen, unter denen Menschen im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit Reisen unternahmen, haben wir heute kaum eine Vorstellung. Alte Reiseberichte übergehen meist Beschreibungen der Straßenzustände, die Unbequemlichkeit der Kutschen, die Trostlosigkeit durchquerter Landstriche – obwohl vor allem solche Umstände den Reisealltag ausmachten. Antoni Ma?czak lässt die Erfahrung des Unterwegsseins zwischen 1500 und 1700 lebendig werden. Er zeigt, warum man reiste, was man sich vom Reisen erhoffte und wie man durchs Reisen verändert wurde. Probleme wie die Gefahr von Kutschenunfällen, die mühsame Suche nach erträglichen Herbergen oder zuverlässigen Begleitern geraten in den Blick. Wir hören von widrigem Wetter und Gelände, wilden Tieren, marodierenden Soldaten und Wegelagerern. Uns begegnen lästige Bettgenossen und eilfertige Gastwirte, zweideutige Reisebekanntschaften und strenge Zollkontrolleure. All dies verbindet der Autor mit farbigen Porträts verschiedener Typen von Reisenden – von Bischöfen und Gesandten mit prächtigem Gefolge bis zum einsamen Pilger und zum Gelehrten, der sich aus Wissensdurst und Fernweh auf den Weg machte.
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A guide to the history and culture of the American Southwest, as told through early encounters with fifteen iconic sites This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change. The sites visited in this volume range from popular destinations within the National Park System-including Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde-to the Spanish colonial towns of Santa Fe and Taos and the living Indian communities of Acoma, Zuni, and Taos. Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors' skillful evocation of the region's sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
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The Danube has been a border and a bridge for migrants and goods since antiquity. Between the 17th and the 19th centuries, commercial networks were formed between the Ottoman Empire and Central and Eastern Europe creating diaspora communities. This gradually led to economic and cultural transfers connecting the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the Continental world of commerce. The contributors to the present volume offer different perspectives on commerce and entrepreneurship based on the interregional treaties of global significance, on cultural and ecclesiastical relations, population policy and demographical aspects. Questions of identity, family, and memory are in the centre of several chapters as they interact with the topographic and socio-anthropological territoriality of all the regions involved. Contributors are: Constantin Ardeleanu, Iannis Carras, Lidia Cotovanu, Lyubomir Georgiev, Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Dimitrios Kontogeorgis, Nenad Makuljević, Ikaros Mantouvalos, Anna Ransmayr, Vaso Seirinidou, Maria A. Stassinopoulou.
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Para os estudiosos da Filologia Românica, uma tradução para o português, em edição crítica e bilíngue, da narrativa de peregrinação de Egéria – a Peregrinatio Egeriae –, com elaborado glossário e anotações filológicas, é motivo de comemoração. Não se trata apenas de mais uma edição do conhecido documento latino, mas o resultado de um paciente trabalho de anos. Em busca das indispensáveis fontes bibliográficas, a autora permaneceu um ano em Paris, junto à Sorbonne. [...] Estamos diante de um documento desafiador, na medida em que levanta muitas questões filológicas, históricas e factuais, que especialistas tentaram e ainda tentam responder. O leitor verificará que a presente obra traz algumas contribuições importantes para uma melhor compreensão desse documento. (Bruno Fregni Basseto)
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