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- Title
Courtly Connections: Anthony Sherley's Relation of his trauels (1613) in a Global Context.
- Authors
Şahin, Kaya; Schleck, Julia
- Abstract
This article revisits Anthony Sherley's Relation of his trauels into Persia (1613), reading the text within the larger context of early modern Eurasia. It highlights the ways in which at least one European traveler sought and found not alterity, but commensurable structures, social roles, political ideologies, and personal motivations in the Islamic polities to the east and emphasized these connections to his European readers. Furthermore, in making the case that Sherley's narrative is informed by local actors in Safavid Persia, it maintains that a certain level of Eastern knowledge is present within Western texts from this period and awaits scholarly excavation.
- Subjects
SHERLEY, Anthony, Sir, 1565-ca. 1635; BRITISH authors; TRAVELERS' writings; SIR Antony Sherley: His Relation of His Trauels Into Persia (Book); GLOBALIZATION; CULTURAL relations; GREAT Britain-Iran relations; SAFAVID dynasty, Iran, 1501-1736; HISTORY; MEDIEVAL &; Renaissance (Literary period)
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2016, Vol 69, Issue 1, p80
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1086/686327