{"product_id":"the-allure-of-the-ancient-receptions-of-the-ancient-middle-east-ca-1600-1800-9789004129320","title":"The Allure of the Ancient: Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, ca. 1600–1800","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Allure of the Ancient investigates how the ancient Middle East was imagined and appropriated for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing together scholars of the ancient and early modern worlds, the volume approaches reception history from an interdisciplinary perspective, asking how early modern artists and scholars interpreted ancient Middle Eastern civilizations—such as Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia—and how their interpretations were shaped by early modern contexts and concerns.       The volume’s chapters cross disciplinary boundaries in their explorations of art, philosophy, science, and literature, as well as geographical boundaries, spanning from Europe to the Caribbean to Latin America.    Contributors are: Elisa Boeri, Mark Darlow, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Florian Ebeling, Margaret Geoga, Diane Greco Josefowicz, Andrea L. Middleton, Julia Prest, Felipe Rojas Silva, Maryam Sanjabi, Michael Seymour, John Steele, and Daniel Stolzenberg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors’ Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Notes on the Editors  Notes on the Contributors    1 Introduction   Margaret Geoga and John Steele    2 Images of Babylon in Early Modern Europe   Michael Seymour    3 Between Babylon and Rome: The Panorama of Constantinople (1662)   Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby    4 Collapsing Identities of Ptolemaic Queens in Early Modern Rome   Andrea L. Middleton    5 Reading the East: From the Enlightenment to the Utopic Projects of the Revolutionary Architects   Elisa Boeri    6 Freemasons and Platonism: The Allure of Egypt between Big Ideas and Small Details   Florian Ebeling    7 Zoroaster’s French Moment   Maryam Sanjabi    8 Ancient and Modern: Citational Practices and the Status of Ancient Egypt in Jean Terrasson’s Séthos   Margaret Geoga    9 Representing Egypt in French Enlightenment Musical Theatre: From Gherardi to the Opéra national   Mark Darlow    10 From Tragic Hero to Creole Businesswoman: Voltaire’s Semiramis and Her Parodies in 18th-Century France and Saint-Domingue   Julia Prest    11 Babylonians in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: Comparative Antiquarianism in the Work of Sahagún   Felipe Rojas Silva    12 Egypt and Babylon in Eighteenth-Century European Histories of Astronomy   John Steele    13 What Was Oriental Studies in Early Modern Europe? “Oriental Languages” and the Making of a Discipline   Daniel Stolzenberg    14 On Religious Systems: An Early Essay by Jean-François Champollion   Diane Greco Josefowicz    Index Nominum","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210595230039,"sku":"9789004129320","price":133.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-allure-of-the-ancient-receptions-of-the-ancient-middle-east-ca-1600-1800-9789004129320","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}