Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740)

Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740)
Author: Rachel Finnegan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004440054

In Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke’s famous eastern voyage from 1737-40, together with updated biographical accounts of the author and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles).

Eleusis and Enlightenment

Eleusis and Enlightenment
Author: Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2024-03-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004692304

The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.

The Life and Works of Robert Wood

The Life and Works of Robert Wood
Author: Rachel Finnegan
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2022-01-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803271779

The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary of his death and provides the general reader with a source book for the fascinating life and career of a much-neglected figure in the realm of Irish eighteenth-century travels and antiquarianism.

English Explorers in the East (1738-1745)

English Explorers in the East (1738-1745)
Author: Rachel Finnegan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004404228

In English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan offers an account of the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other. Making use of historical records, Finnegan examines the personal and professional motives of the three authors for producing their eastern travels; their methods of researching, drafting, and publicising their works while still abroad; their relationships with each other, both while travelling and on their return to England; and the legacy of their combined works. She also provides a survey of the main features (both textual and visual) of the travel books themselves.

Scholarship between Europe and the Levant

Scholarship between Europe and the Levant
Author: Jan Loop
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2020-05-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004429328

Scholarship between Europe and the Levant is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Alastair Hamilton. His pioneering research into the history of European Oriental studies has deeply enhanced our understanding of the dynamics and processes of cultural and religious exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world. Written by students, friends and colleagues, the contributions in this volume pay tribute to Alastair Hamilton’s work and legacy. They discuss and celebrate intellectual, artistic and religious encounters between Europe and the cultural area stretching from Northern Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, and spanning the period from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. Contributors: Asaph Ben-Tov, Alexander Bevilacqua, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Charles Burnett, Ziad Elmarsafy, Mordechai Feingold, Aurélien Girard, Bernard Heyberger, Robert Irwin, Tarif Khalidi, J.M.I. Klaver, Noel Malcolm, Martin Mulsow, Francis Richard, G. J. Toomer, Arnoud Vrolijk, Nicholas Warner, Joanna Weinberg, and Jan Just Witkam.

Wonderful Things

Wonderful Things
Author: Jason Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015
Genre: Egypt
ISBN: 9774165993

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later.