Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914)

Bridges, Roy

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“…As the so-called 'age of discovery' continued into the eighteenth century, an ever-growing plethora of travel writing followed in its path, some with an obvious intent to entertain, others with more scientific purposes, many a mix of these two aims and most with an underlying agenda of a political, economic or religious character (Bridges 2002: 53, Youngs 2013. Two new types of travellers gained notoriety during this era, those in groups and the individualistic romantic traveller -each producing different kinds of texts.…”

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Loss of words and end of worlds: Transitions and troubles of travel writing

Nyqvist¹

2022

Literature and the Making of the World

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Loss of words and end of worlds: Transitions and troubles of travel writing

Nyqvist¹

2022

Literature and the Making of the World

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“…The exclusively aristocratic institution of the Grand Touror, in the German context, Kavalierstour -108 had by the mid-nineteenth century given way to a large variety of ʻ travels of learningʼ 109 that were now also practised by educated members of the bourgeoisie. 110 With new modes of passenger transportation available, the horizon of these journeys expanded to destinations beyond western and southern Europe, 111 the Eastern Mediterranean with Greece, the ʻHoly Landʼ and Egypt being particularly popular. 112 At the same time, travelogues were in great demand on the rapidly expanding book market.…”

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Holding High the Hanseatic Cross in the Levant: Andreas David Mordtmann and the Diplomatic Milieu of Istanbul

Volker

2020

The International History Review

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This article unearths the little-known history of the Hanseatic legation in mid-nineteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul through a close reading of the career and writings of its head of mission Andreas David Mordtmann. A trained Orientalist, Mordtmann ventured well beyond the social and spatial boundaries that seemed to confine the select and inward-looking diplomatic milieu of Pera. He travelled extensively throughout Anatolia and had close relationships with notable Ottoman high-officials and intellectuals. After the legation was disbanded in 1859, these contacts secured him employment in the Ottoman state service. Applying a transcultural approach, the article examines Mordtmann's overlapping and often conflicting roles of diplomat and scholar in the light of recent scholarship on nineteenth century diplomatic culture and (German) Orientalism, paying particular attention to his complex position as an observer with multiple and shifting political, cultural, and professional affinities. Uncovering the mental and material worlds of this Orientalist-turned-diplomat-turned-Ottoman will not only shed new light on some of the intricacies of diplomatic life in Istanbul, but also show how it was ultimately more 'locally embedded' than previously presumed in the literature.

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“…(Se t.ex. Campbell 1988;Porter 1991;Pratt 1992;Pagden 1993;Elsner & Rubiés 1999;Bridges 2002;Sell 2006; Abulafia 2008) Visst handlar, som de senaste decenniernas forskning har visat, kulturmöten om makt, biopolitik, förtryckarstrukturer, men -och det här den kognitiva historien kommer in -denna forskning har inte kunnat visa hur och förklara varför dessa fenomen kan uppstå psykologiskt och kognitivt och hur tankeprocesserna bakom uppfattningarna om den andre går till. Det är här jag tror vi behöver kognitiv-historiska analyser för att på en mer grundläggande nivå förstå vad som händer med det mänskliga tänkandet i mötet med en annan människa, en annan kultur eller miljö, helt enkelt vad är det för kognitiva processer som aktiveras i dessa möten som gör att vi tolkar (eller misstolkar) varandra på ett visst sätt och inte ett annat?…”

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Den kognitiva vändningen - Idéhistoria och det mänskliga tänkandets historia

Dunér¹

2018

Slagmark

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The last two decades have seen a noticeable increase in cognitive science studies that has changed the understanding of human thinking. Historians cannot ignore this any more. Cognitive history could be explained as the study of how humans in history used their cognitive abilities in order to understand the worldaround them and to orient themselves in it, but also how the world outside their bodies affected their way of thinking. In focus in this article is the relation between history and cognition, the human mind’s interaction with the environment in time and space. I will especially discuss certain cognitive abilities in interaction with the environment, which can be studied in the historical sources, and be put to the test, namely: embodied mind, situated cognition,perception, distributed cognition, conceptual metaphors, and communication. I also give concrete empirical examples of how a cognitive-historical analysis can provide more fundamental explanations for what happens in cultural encounters, when a human being meets another and tries to understand another cultureor another foreign environment. By these cognitive theories we can come closer to an understanding of how (not only what) people thought, and study the interaction between the human mind and the surrounding world. The most ambitious aim of such a cognitive history could be, in the long run, to also informthe research on the cognitive evolution of the human mind.

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Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914)

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Loss of words and end of worlds: Transitions and troubles of travel writing

Loss of words and end of worlds: Transitions and troubles of travel writing

Holding High the Hanseatic Cross in the Levant: Andreas David Mordtmann and the Diplomatic Milieu of Istanbul

Den kognitiva vändningen - Idéhistoria och det mänskliga tänkandets historia

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